Publicación: «Against the Neutral View of Poisoning the Well»
Nuestros compañeros Manu Almagro Holgado y Amalia Haro Marchal, investigadores de FiloLab, han publicado en la revista Argumentation un artículo titulado "Against the Neutral View of Poisoning the Well". A continuación se reproduce el abstract del trabajo, al que podéis acceder a través de este enlace. According to what we call the neutral view of poisoning the well, poisoning the well is an argumentative move that appeals to an opponent’s social identity as an attempt to diminish their credibility. This view holds that poisoning the well is a very special and dangerous fallacy, because it silences the recipient on the basis of their social identity, and therefore never counts as a legitimate move in a debate. In this paper, we take issue with this view. First, we show that this…
