*Date: Tues 25 May 2010* *Time*: 11am - 1pm *Location*: W6A 107 *Speaker*: Christopher Tindale (Windsor/Macquarie) *Topic*: On Persuasion
*Abstract*: Prior to a “pragmatic turn” in argumentation marked by Charles Hamblin’s seminal work, there was a general tendency to oppose argumentation and persuasion, with the former based in reason and the latter depending on a series of manipulative techniques. Under such thinking, the notion of “rational persuasion” would not arise. More recent attempts to look seriously at what rhetoric can contribute to argumentation encourage a review of the nature and role of persuasion. In this paper, I contribute to that project through an examination of the understanding of persuasion that informs Aristotle’s *Rhetoric *and ways in which insights arising there can be applied to more recent models of argumentation like that of Habermas. *****************************************
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