Causal Inquiry Dialogue
While writing the "Theory of Rationality" post, I revisited the pragma-dialectical rules for critical discussion and Waltons extended dialogue types; then suddenly got an idea. Walton's extensions could possibly be extended further into sub-types. Why not extend this framework into a dialogue exclusively concerned with the nuances and features of causal inquiry? This interests me in particular because I'm quite familiar and interested in empirical methods used to identify causal effects in data. While in Economics graduate school, I distinctly recall most applied microeconometric research reducing to debates about whether X is a confounder, proper instrument, or if there is selection bias. This sure sounds like a sub-type of Walton's Inquiry Dialogue. Furthermore, Walton already has argumentation schemes for causal reasoning. Perhaps we could simply extend the existing work? Below I will first review the schemes then propose a dialogue sub-type. 1) Argument from C...