The Pandemic of Argumentation

Chapter 1. The Pandemic of Argumentation.- Part I: Arguing About The Pandemic.- Chapter 2. Arguing About "COVID": Metalinguistic Arguments on What Counts As A "Covid-19 Death". Chapter 3. 'Covid-19': Meaning and Reference.- Chapter 4. Political Interference and Argumentative Styles.- Chapter 5. The Evaluative Component in Pragmatic Argumentation: An Analysis of Public Discourse During the First Wave of the Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic in Italy.- Chapter 6. Spaces of Argumentation and their Interaction: Some Elements of Thought Inspired by Controversies and Dispute in France During the Covid-19 Crisis.- Chapter 7. The Argumentative Potential of Doubt: From Legitimate Concerns to Conspiracy Theories About Covid-19 Vaccines. Chapter 8. Analysing the Public Debate About Lockdown.- Chapter 9. Responding to the COVID Conspiracy Theories: Why Narratives Themselves are More Powerful Arguments than Fact-Checking.- Chapter 10. Reshaping Society through an Expanded Understanding of the Role of Analogy: Or How the Co-Vid Crisis Can Lead to a Better World.- Chapter 11. Expert Uncertainty: Arguments Bolstering the Ethos of Expertise in Situations of Uncertainty.- Chapter 12. Conditional Perfection, Scientific Schizophrenia and Political Decisions: On the Argumentative Dark Side of Pandemic Discourse.- Part II: Justifying and Promoting Health Policies.- Chapter 13. Good and Ought in Argumentation: COVID-19 as a Case Study.- Chapter 14. Visual Argumentation and Law: Broadcasting and Justifying the Norms During the Pandemic.- Chapter 15. Securitisation and the Rediscovery of the Invisible Enemy in Times of Pandemic: Analysing Political Discourses from the European South.- Chapter 16. The UK Government's 'Balancing Act' in the Pandemic. Arguing from Competing Concerns: Lives, Livelihoods and Liberties.- Chapter 17. Practical Conflicts between Law and Morality: An Argumentative Analysis of the Case of Coronavirus Contact-Tracing Apps.- Chapter 18. How to Deal with Deep

Steve Oswald is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg Switzerland. His theoretical, empirical, and experimental research navigates the interface between cognitive pragmatics and argumentation theory and tackles classical issues related to the use of persuasive and deceptive language. He has co-edited 8 collective volumes devoted to issues in argumentation theory, pragmatics, and rhetoric and published his research in numerous academic journals and collective volumes. He serves as vice-chair of COST Action CA17132 and currently leads 2 research projects on implicit meaning in argumentation and on rephrase strategies in argumentation. More information can be found on his website: www.steveoswald.ch.

Marcin Lewinski is an Assistant Professor and the Chair of the Reasoning and Argumentation Lab (ArgLab) at the Nova Institute of Philosophy, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. He completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam (2010), and from 2010 to 2016 worked as a post-doctoral fellow of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), before becoming an assistant professor in 2016. His work focuses on the basic issues in the philosophy of language and argumentation theory such as rationality of everyday conversations, practical reasoning, pragmatic meaning, social and strategic aspects of speech acts, fallacies. He is currently leading the Horizon 2020 COST Action project CA17132, European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis (2018-2023), where philosophical and linguistic concepts and methods are applied to a critical study of public argument.
Sara Greco (PhD in communication sciences, 2009) is Associate Professor of argumentation at USI - Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano (Switzerland) at the Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics. She has published widely on argumentation theory, using linguistic and discourse analytical instruments to study spoken and written