Shahid Rahman
Axes de recherche
Axe Transversal Argumentation
In the last 10 years I have been exploring the main frameworks which lead to shaping my own contribution to the new shift in argumentation studies offered by a novel perspecitve on the Dialogical Framework. Indeed, on one hand I have been delving into the possibilities of extending dialogical pluralism (launched at the Universität des Saarlandes and developed in Lille) ) – see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-dialogical/.– as a general dialectical stance in relation to the constitution of meaning and logical reasoning (including a plethora of non-classical logics, including normal and non-normal modal logics, temporal logic, connexive logic, relevant logic, logic for fictional and paraconsistent contexts); and on the other I have been doing research on dialectical reasoning patterns in classical Greek, classical Arabic, Jain and Oral African thought. Particular emphasis has been put on n among others, modern and contemporary European Civil Law. The main instrument developed is the dialogical approach to Per Martin Löf’s Constructive Type Theory – the result of this approach, that aims at a dialogical fully interpreted language, carries the name Immanent Reasoning. In fact, this new development in Dialogical logic has its roots in the workshop New Perspectives in Dialogical Logic, that I co-organized with H. Rückert, fostered by the Max-Planck Inst. für Informatik-Saarbrücken. see H. Rückert Dialogues as a Dynamic Framework for Logic. London: College Publications, 2011 (which includes a large number of papers written in collaboration).
These researches yielded several international projects, a large number of publications, about 100 peer-reviewed papers 8 monographies and 15 co-editions of volumes, the supervising of 30 PhD’s (19 since 2011) and involved the edition of 6 collections of books, two very successful collections in Springer. In relation to Springer collections in 2013 I launched as main editor the Springer collection Logic, Argumentation and Reasoning: Perspectives from the Humanities and the Social Sciences (https://www.springer.com/series/11547), and, Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Sciences, (https://www.springer.com/series/6936) – both became a reference in the field; and four in College Publications, King’s College London – namely: https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/cahiers/, https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/cuadernos/, https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/dialogues/, https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/LS/.