Argumentation at School

• Applicant: Dr. David Löwenstein
• Subject Area: Theoretical Philosophy
• Term: from 2019 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 422210755

It is with good reason that formulating, analyzing and evaluating arguments, as a crucial competence of free and critical citizens, belongs to the core educational goals of universities and secondary schools. These competences form a crucial part of the well-formulated goal of strengthening the holistic capacity of judgment, as articulated in the Dresden Consensus. Philosophy has a special responsibility to foster such argumentative competences. For it harbors the systematic critical reflection of justifying, reasoning and arguing – argumentation theory. But this part of philosophy on the one hand and the didactics of philosophy and ethics on the other hand are so far insufficiently connected with respect to the didactics of argument and reasoning. The aim of the research network „Argumentation at School“ is to systematically investigate the didactics of argument and reasoning and to establish this field as an own area of research at the intersection of philosophy and its didactics.

• DFG Programme: Scientific Networks