Different aims and biases
Research on the modeling of argumentation can have rather different aims, for instance:
- to describe and evaluate actual human argumentation by means of empirical investigation, e.g., in cognitive science or psychology;
- to apply an argumentation model in order to build intelligent computers and programs, e.g., in computer science and artificial intelligence;
- to investigate and enhance our conceptualizations of argumentation in order to better understand its nature, e.g., in philosophical and mathematical logic.