Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. Acronyms xiii
5. Introduction: xv
6. Chapter 1. The place of dialog theory 1
7. Chapter 2. The history of dialectic 47
8. Chapter 3. Persuasion dialog 89
9. Chapter 4. Multi-agent dialog systems 131
10. Chapter 5. Agents in critical argumentation 159
11. Chapter 6. Dialectical shifts and embeddings 205
12. Chapter 7. Criticizing a natural language argument 247
13. Bibliography 289
14. Index 303