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Abstract: Policy debates about the impact of new technologies or substances often begin with a proposal that the innovation poses potential hazards to those exposed to or using it. Such potential hazards are typically disputed by other scientists on the basis that no theoretically-sound causal mechanism exists to explain the alleged relationship. Debates often then proceed with an experiment which demonstrates a statistical correlation, but articulation of a sound causal mechanism may only follow... (Update)
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.... and manipulation of arguments and values in the form of a dialogue game, and we have termed such a system a Risk Agora (McBurney Parsons, 1999). Another approach, very similar in spirit to this, is the Zeno argumentation framework of Gordon Karacapilidis (1997) This...
...of these others may well differ from that of the patient, and the patient and her risk advisor may wish to compare these. Elsewhere [18], two of us have proposed the use of a form of dialectical argumentation in intelligent systems to model and manipulate competing views of...
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P. McBurney and S. Parsons. Truth or consequences: using argumentation to reason about risk. In Symposium on Practical Reasoning, London, UK, 1999. British Psych. Soc. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/mcburney99truth.html More
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