Stories are ubiquitous in human experience, says Floris Bex.

“We use them to entertain and communicate and it is often suggested that they are rooted in our psychology and thus serve an important cognitive function,” he says. “Stories are claimed to provide natural and intuitive ways of explaining some phenomena.”

He will explore the uses of stories in argumentative contexts in his free public lecture, “Arguing with Stories,” on Thursday, September 15, at 3 p.m. in the seminar room of Parker House, 105 Sunset Avenue.

Dr. Bex is a research assistant at the Argumentation Research Group of the University of Dundee, working on the Dialectical Argumentation Machines project. His talk is presented by the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR).