MEETING TIME: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM

MEETING LOCATION: MAK-BLL-110

Date: Friday, October 4

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Argument often aims at settling matters on the first order—what propositions are true or what course of action is best taken. But argument sometimes aims to settle matters on the second order, like whether another argument was good, bad, or fallacious. So, sometimes we argue about whether people are eating cats, but other times we argue about arguing about whether people are eating cats. We can call the second of these “meta-arguments.” What’s interesting is that the rules for first-order arguments sometimes don’t seem to apply to meta-arguments. Some meta-arguments, in fact, seem to consist in explicitly violating the rules of first order argument. That situation is, to borrow a phrase, weird.

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