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Dialogue structure and logical expressivism

<22>This paper, in the section on formal approaches to information, reasoning, etc., of the most influential journal in philosophy (http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=hum_philosophy) shows how dialogue structure, as described in empirical studies of conversation, falls out from a minimal extension of Brandomian inferential practices of a community of (idealised) cooperative language users. It is accompanied by a checkable/open source, implementation. According to one of the paper's reviewers: '[it] sharpens up issues of inference and expressivism which can be rather hard to grapple with in Brandom's own works: these have tended to be either intimidatingly prolix (Brandom 1994) or brief and over-simplified (Brandom 2000).'