An Argumentative Approach to Defeasible Reasoning: Towards a Unifying Base Theory Christian Straßer Centre of Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS), Ghent University Christian.Strasser@UGent.be http://ugent.academia.edu/ChristianStraßer August 6, 2014 Contents 1 Synopsis 1 2 State of the Art 1 3 The Significance of this Project 3 4 Objectives 6 5 Methodology 10