“心灵与智能”前沿讲坛

Rhetorical Invention, Argumentation, and the AI Challenge

主讲人：Christopher Tindale（Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric，Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor, Canada）

主持人：谢耘（六合彩资料 ）

时间：2026年3月18日（星期三）15:00

地点：锡昌堂103

主讲人简介

克里斯托夫·廷德尔（Christopher W. Tindale）教授是加拿大温莎大学（University of Windsor）六合彩资料 教授，并担任该校推理、论辩与修辞研究中心主任。廷德尔教授的研究专长包括论证理论、修辞学及古希腊哲学，先后出版《Rhetorical Argumentation: Principles of Theory and Practice》（2004）、《Reason’s Dark Champions: Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument》（2010）、《The Philosophy of Argument and Audience Reception》（2015）以及《The Anthropology of Argument》（2021）等多部著作。

内容简介

One of the five canons of rhetoric, inventio involves the discovery or invention of arguments. We can meet arguments in situ: identify them, compare them, and assess them, setting them aside for recall and adaptation. But first they must be invented, produced according to a range of judgments and chosen strategies, conscious of audience demand. But now we learn we do not have to do this; artificial intelligence can take on the task for us. The days of invention are numbered. I examine what it means to invent arguments. That is, what sense of ‘argument’ is at work behind this process, and does this sense best accommodate or explain the productions of AI chatbot ChatGPT? While any sense of arguing includes arguments, the reverse does not seem the case. That is, the existence of arguments does not mean the presence of arguing. There is an important difference between learning how to produce arguments and understanding their production because of how we experience them. So, we need to consider carefully what is at stake: With artificial arguments there is no argumentative situation with a history and wider context, there is no rhetorical depth.

作为修辞学五大要素之一，“发明”（inventio）关乎论证的发现与创造。我们总是在具体情境中遇到论证：识别它们、比较它们、评估它们，将其留存以备回忆与改编。但论证首先必须要被创造出来，人们是根据一系列判断、选择策略并考虑受众的需求来生成论证。然而，如今人工智能似乎可以替我们完成这个任务，创造的时代即将结束。本次讲座旨在探究论证的创造究竟意味着什么：在这一过程中，到底“论证”所指的是何种含义？这种含义能否最好地适配或解释人工智能聊天机器人（如ChatGPT）所生成的内容？虽然任何论辩活动都会包含论证，反之却未必成立——论证的存在并不意味着论辩行为的发生。因此，学会如何生成论证与理解已经生成的论证，这两者之间存在重要的差异。当论证由人工智能来生成时，它缺乏了论辩情境，也不再具有明确的历史和语境，其修辞的维度也将随之消失。