=Paper=
{{Paper
|id=Vol-3086/invited1
|storemode=property
|title=None
|pdfUrl=https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3086/invited1.pdf
|volume=Vol-3086
}}
==None==
<pdf width="1500px">https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3086/invited1.pdf</pdf>
<pre>
Truth, Logic and Dialogue
Sanjay Modgila
a
    King’s College London, Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG, United Kingdom




Abstract
In this talk I will review various philosophical conceptualisations of the notion of ’truth’, by way
of then sketching a conception rooted in the American Pragmatist tradition; one that seeks to
clarify concepts in terms of the effects they have on practice. In particular, I will advocate for a
conception of truth as a norm that (implicitly) motivates enquiry and dialogue with the purpose
of resolving conflict and uncertainty. For this, arguably, is how truth functions in practice. I
suggest that this conception provides a compelling case for formalising non-monotonic logics in
terms of normative constraints governing the contents of, and relations between, speech acts in
certain kinds of dialogue. I then review how argumentative characterisations of non-monotonic
reasoning, and their generalisation to distributed reasoning via dialogue, are a strong candidate
for such formalisations. Finally, I will point to how such conceptualizations of truth and non-
monotonic reasoning might help address contemporary concerns about the post-truth world
we find ourselves in now, as well as efforts to ensure beneficial rather than harmful impacts of
Artificial Intelligence.




AI3 2021: the 5th Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, September 29th, 2021, Milan, Italy
Envelope-Open sanjay.modgil@kcl.ac.uk (S. Modgil)
                                       © 2020 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
    CEUR
    Workshop
    Proceedings
                  http://ceur-ws.org
                  ISSN 1613-0073
                                       CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)

</pre>