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CALL FOR PAPERS

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

http://logika.uwb.edu.pl/studies/

Special Issue on Argumentation Theory and Computer Science

This journal issue intends to present the current state of the art in the study on the overlap between Argumentation Theory and Computer Science.The issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. Among the topics to be addressed there are:

computational models of defeasible arguments

the application of software tools in argument analysis and representation

argument scheme analysis and critique in artificial intelligence

the application of theories of argument in multi-agent systems

the use of software tools in the study of persuasion dialog

the application of software tools in online debates

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

 

The length of papers should be between 10 and 20 pages. Authors should submit papers by e-mail in Microsoft Word or TeX file format with tables and figures in the same file. Page format of papers should be A4, text font – Times New Roman, size 12. Line spacing of the text should be single. Additionally figures should be submitted in separate graphics files (bitmap graphics resolution should be 1200 dpi for black and white line drawings and 300 dpi for color and half-tone artwork (all colors will be converted to half-tones). It should be submitted as .tiff, .bmp or .jpg files. Vector graphics should be saved as .emf or .cdr files).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission:

February 15, 2011

Notification of acceptance:

March 15, 2011

 

Articles should be sent by e-mail to the special issue guest editor:

 

Marcin Koszowy

Department of Logic, Informatics and Philosophy of Science

University of Białystok

Sosnowa 64

15-887 Białystok, Poland

koszowy@uwb.edu.pl

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Call for Papers, Panels, and Abstracts
17th Biennial NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, 2011, The Cliff Lodge at Snowbird, Alta, UT, July 28-31.

Theme: Reasoned Argument and Social Change

Submissions for the Program: Please send electronic versions of completed papers, panel proposals, or extended abstracts to the Conference Program Planner, Robert C. Rowland (Alta2011@ku.edu) by Friday, March 4, 2011.

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, March 4, 2011

Submission Format: The Alta Conference invites papers, panel proposals, and paper proposals from any of the traditional perspectives on argumentation or from emerging contemporary views in the social sciences and humanities. Papers may reflect pedagogical, philosophical, theoretical, interpretive, empirical, critical, or cross disciplinary perspectives.

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The Research Institute for Philosophy Hannover is sponsoring a prize competition on the following question:

“Can pictures be arguments?”

Details (in German): http://www.netzwerk-medienethik.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Flyer-Wiss_Preisfrage-2011.pdf
Those interested in competing should submit a previously unpublished philosophical essay of up to 50 pages (at 2400 characters per page) in English or German by March 15th, 2011.
Awards will be given of 3.000, 2.000 and 1.000 Euro.

Contact Information:
Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover
Frau Anna Maria Hauk M.A.
Gerberstraße 26
30169 Hannover
Tel.: (05 11) 1 64 09-10
Fax: (05 11) 1 64 09-40
e-mail: hauk@fiph.de
http://www.fiph.de

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C.L. Hamblin and Argumentation Theory
A special issue of Informal Logic

Guest editors: Douglas N. Walton and Ralph H. Johnson

Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:
•    Hamblin’s views on logic
•    Hamblin’s views on fallacies
•    Hamblin’s view on argument
•    Hamblin’s views on formal dialectic

Papers should be prepared for blind refereeing and include 100-word-limit Abstract and 10-word-limit Keyword list, and should meet the format requirements of the journal:
http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/about Click on “Submissions>Author Guidelines” to read the format requirements.

Submission deadline: 30 June 2011.

Papers will be blind refereed. Questions may be directed to either of the Guest Editors. The paper should be submitted to either one of the Guest Editors. Please advise one of the guest editors if you intend to submit a paper.

Douglas N. Walton: walton@uwindsor.ca Ralph H. Johnson: johnsoa@uwindsor.ca

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