This book treats practical and political reasoning as an active engagement with the world and other people; i
t cannot be understood as exclusively cognitive and this is seen as a virtue rather than a deficiency. Informal, emotional, characterological, aesthetic and interactional aspects of thought can be constituents of reasonable arguing. The work examines key capacities connected with argumentation, in a variety of fields from professional and medical ethics to work organization and the practice of art.
Ricca Edmondson is a lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Karlheinz Hülser is professor of ancient philosophy at the Universities of Jena and Konstanz.