Robert Talisse on the Importance of Arguments in Politics

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 October 2013

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Why is argument so important in politics? Bob Talisse, co-author of Why We Argue (and how we should), explores this issue in conversation with David Edmonds for this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

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0:16.3	The incredulous restatement of the interlocutor statement.
0:20.4	What kind of a phrase is that? For this episode of Philosophy Bites,
0:24.0	David Edmonds talks to Robert Toulice
0:27.0	about disagreement, argument and dissent in the political sphere.
0:31.0	The incredulous restatement of the interlocutus Statement is one of the techniques they discuss.
0:36.0	Bob Toulouse, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
0:38.0	Well, thanks Dave, thanks for having me.
0:40.0	The topic we're going to talk about today, or I should say the topic we're going to argue about today, is the importance of argument in politics.
0:47.0	Why in politics in particular?
0:50.0	Well, argument is something that I think we are inclined to do generally.
0:55.0	We disagree, we try to figure things out, we try to evaluate each other's views.
1:00.0	But when we're talking about politics, particularly democratic politics,
1:03.4	argument takes on a whole new significance.
1:06.0	Democracy is a lot of different things.
1:08.0	It's voting, it's campaigning, it's shaking hands
1:11.2	and kissing babies. But the underlying aim of democracy is self-government.
1:16.0	And part of what self-government is about
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