Introduction to Abstract
Argumentation Theory

ESSLLI 2012, Opole, Poland
Davide Grossi

Material

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Videos on argumentation: Monty Python's Argument Clinic, The Knife Argument (12 Angry Men)


Rough plan of lectures

1) Introduction, confclict-freeness and self-defense (chapter 1 and part of 2)
2) Admissibility, completeness and the grounded set (parts of chapters 2 and 3)
3) Stable sets, preferred sets and preliminary modal logic formalization (parts of chapters 2 and 4)
4) More on modal logic, games (parts of chapters 5 and 6)
5) More on games, argument invariance (parts of chapters 6 and 8)