Determining Argumentative Dispute Resolution Reveals Deep Disagreement Over Harassment Issue (A Case-Study of a Discussion in the Russian Parliament)

• Autorzy: Elena Lisanyuk
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

In 2018, three journalists accused one of the Members of the Russian Parliament of harassment at workplace. Many influential persons of the Russian elite engaged themselves in the public discussion of the conflict. We studied that high-profiled discussion using a hybrid method merging human- and logic-oriented approaches in argumentation studies. The method develops ideas of the new dialectics, the argumentation logic and the logical-cognitive approach to argumentation, on which is based the algorithm for determining of dispute resolution by aggregating formal and informal tools of analysis. We have reconstructed the discussion as two disputes about questions A and B. A: Did the MP violate the code of conduct by making statements or actions against the journalists? B: Are actions like the behavior of the MP harassment? The opinions of the discussion participants were grouped into the four points of view: A1 - the MP did not violate the code of conduct, A2 - the MP violated the code of conduct, B3 - the actions are not harassment, B4 - the actions are harassment. We mapped arguments in support or against each of them using OVA software, evaluated the arguments with the help of the critical questions, a tool proposed in the new dialectics, and determined the ultimate A + B resolution by applying of the algorithm that combines elements of gradual and labelling semantics from the argumentation logic and the classification of disputes from the dialectical approaches. The resolution was a subset of four arguments that ensured the victory of A1+B4. However, the substantial incompatibility of those arguments highlighted a deep disagreement, an unresolvable difference of opinion, between the parties about the permissibility of courtship. The deep disagreement, a bonus result yielded by the application of the hybrid method, excluded the interpretation of the determined resolution as convincing for the parties, but pointed out a way to smooth the difference of opinions by elaborating of legal, social and moral aspects of the problem of harassment at workplace.(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Sexual harassment; Public debate; Parliament

PL

Molestowanie seksualne; Debata publiczna; Parlament

• Czasopismo: Studia Humana
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: 11(3-4)
• Strony: 30--45

Twórcy

autor

Elena Lisanyuk

• St Petersburg State University St Petersburg, Russian Federation ; National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian FederationRussia

Bibliografia

• Amgoud, L., Doder, D., Vesic, S. Evaluation of argument strength in attack graphs: Foundations and semantics, Artificial Intelligence 302, 2022, 103607.
• Balabanov, S. S., Saralieva, Z. H. Seksual'nye domogatel'stva na rabote v Rossii [Sexual harassment at work in Russia], Bulletin of the Nizhny Novgorod University. N.I. Lobachevsky. Series Social Sciences 1 (17), 2010, pp. 7-12. (In Russian).
• Baroni, P., M. Caminada, M. Giacomin. An introduction to argumentation semantics, Knowledge Engineering Revue 26 (4), 2011, pp 365-410.
• Barth, E.M., Krabbe, E.C.W. From Axiom to Dialogue, Berlin - New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1982.
• Bex F., Verheij B. Solving a Murder Case by Asking Critical Questions: An Approach to Fact- Finding in Terms of Argumentation and Story Schemes. Argumentation 26, 2012, pp. 325-353. DOI 10.1007/s10503-011-9257-0.
• Cayrol, C., Lagasquie-Schiex, M. C. Graduality in Argumentation, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 23, 2005 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.1411.
• Chernigovskaya, T., Shevardnadze, S. 'This is how the world works: a young lady must resist, and a man must persevere. Spletnik. 08.03.2018. URL: https://spletnik.ru/buzz/interview1/81128- tatyana-chernigovskaya-interview.html (In Russian).
• Chernyansky, P. Daria Zhuk, a TV Rain producer, openly accused MP Slutsky of harassment. Daria Zhuk filed a complaint with the Ethics Commission of the State Duma. The Village. 02.03.2018. URL: https://www.the-village.ru/city/news/304107-zhuk-vs-slutsky (RUS).
• Dung, P.M. On the acceptability of arguments and its fundamental role in nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming, and n-person games, Artificial Intelligence 77, 1995, pp. 321-357.
• Eemeren, F.H. van, Grootendorst, R. A Systematic Theory of Argumentation, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Feldman, R. Deep Disagreement, Rational Resolutions, and Critical Thinking, Informal Logic 25 (1), 2005, pp. 13-23.
• Fogelin, R.J. The Logic of Deep Disagreement, Informal Logic 25 (1), 2005, pp. 3-11.
• Kharitonov, M. M. Ponjatie seksual'nogo domogatel'stva (harassmenta) i mehanizmy protivodejstvija emu v trudovom prave Rossii [The concept of sexual harassment and the mechanisms of countering it in the labor law of Russia], Law. Journal of the Higher School of Economics 3, 2019, pp. 52-75. (In Russian).
• Lisanyuk, E. Argumentation and conviction. Saint-Petersburg: Nauka, 2015. (in Russian).
• Lisanyuk, E. Argumentation, Pavilionis's meaning continuum and the Kitchen Debate, Problemos 88, 2015, pp. 95 -113.
• Lisanyuk, E., Mazurova, M. Argumentation, peer-disagreement and birth of truth in dispute [Argumentaciya, raznoglasiye ravnyh I rozhdeniye istiny v spore]. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 56 (1), 2019, pp. 81-100. DOI: 10.5840/eps20195619 (in Russian)
• Nelyubin, N. MP Oksana Pushkina: 'Our men find it easier with 'fish'". Fontanka.ru. 02.03.2018. URL: https://www.fontanka.ru/2018/03/02/035/ (In Russian).
• Olsson, E. J. A Bayesian Simulation Model of Group Deliberation and Polarization, in F. Zenker (ed.), Bayesian Argumentation. Springer, 2013.
• Ostrovskaya, Y., Miryasova, O. Problema harassmenta v vysshej shkole [The problem of harassment in higher education], Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Russia, 2021, URL: https://www.fesrussia. org/meroprijatija/publikacija-problema-kharassmenta-v-vysshei45 shkole/?fbclid=IwAR2h7eVFEd4KGIk89_LGjTSnh-gnYXWP4G6NLYzNltBWH-7Pfwyvy (Accessed: 03.05.2021) (In Russian).
• Prakken, H. Formalising debates about law-making proposals as practical reasoning, in Araszkiewicz, M., Pleszka, K. (eds.). Logic in the Theory and Practice of Lawmaking, Legisprudence Library Series, Springer, 2015.
• Prakken, H., Vreeswijk, G. Logical systems for defeasible argumentation, in: Gabbay, D., Guenther, F. (Eds.), Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Kluwer, 2002, pp. 219-318.
• Samokhina, S. 'For lack of harassment' // Kommersant. 21.03.2018. URL: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3579606 (In Russian).
• Smolyakova, D.T., Chernigovskaya, T. 'Humans share half of their genes with yeast'. SPb Sobaka.ru СПб 29.03.2018 URL: https://www.sobaka.ru/city/society/70447 (In Russian).
• Sokolova, K. 'Harassment is like a virus. And my case is a vaccination against it'. MP Slutsky on accusation of harassment. SNOB. 13.06.2018. URL: https://snob.ru/entry/162002 (In Russian).
• Stuchevskaya, O. Harassment i rossijskie zhenshhiny [Harassment and Russian women], Vestnik obshhestvennogo mnenija [Public Opinion Bulletin] 4 (96), 2008. (In Russian).
• Veller, A. About the sexual scandal around a colleague in parliament. SNOB. 26.03.2018. URL: https://snob.ru/profile/31652/blog/135611 (In Russian).
• Walton, D., Reed, Ch., Macagno, F. Argumentation schemes, Cambridge UP, 2008.
• Wells, S., Reed, Ch. Testing formal dialectic, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ed. Parsons S. et el., vol. 4049\2006, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2006, pp. 74-87.
• Wittgenstein, L. On Certainty, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969.
• Wittgenstein, L. 'He always treated women with warmth.' The head of the State Duma committee stood up for Slutsky. Esquire. 07.03.2018. URL: https://esquire.ru/novosti/45002-warmslutsky (In Russian)
• Wittgenstein, L. 'MP Pushkina prepares amendments on sexual harassment amid scandal with MP Slutsky' Kommersant. 27.02.2018. URL: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3559345 (In Russian).
• Wittgenstein, L. Oksana Pushkina proposed to deprive politicians of their positions for harassment. RBC. 22.03.2018. URL: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/22/03/2018/5ab3eeee9a79477dd47ae462 ; (In Russian).
• Wittgenstein, L. The head of the Union of Journalists of Moscow: 'The Journalists who complained about the harassment of the MP, have humiliated their profession'. Fontanka.ru. 07.03.2018. URL:https://www.fontanka.ru/2022/02/18/70454591/ (In Russian).
• Wittgenstein, L. We consider [Project My schitaem]. Mikhailov and partners. Analytica. 2019. URL: https://m-p-a.ru/genderinequality.html (Accessed: 16.03.2021) (In Russian).
• Wittgenstein, L. The Ethics Commission of the State Duma found no violation of code of conduct in Slutsky's behavior. Interfax 21.03.2018. URL: https://www.interfax.ru/russia/604626 (In Russian)

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.2478/sh-2022-0014