Last week Shaun Usher, custodian of the excellent website “Letters of Note” announced that he would close the comments section on all posts. He writes: All complaints should be directed towards a section of society to whom the concept of even vaguely civil discussion means nothing. …I simply cannot afford to continue mopping up after [...]
Archive for June, 2011
How Comments are Killing the Commons
Posted in Connections, Discussion, tagged Argumentation, communication, democracy, democratic deliberation, internet communications, internet culture, Letters of Note, online conversation, online exchanges, responsible communication, Shaun Usher, trust on June 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
CFP: AILACT at APA Eastern
Posted in CFP, tagged AILACT, APA, APA Eastern Division Meeting, argument, Argumentation, argumentation conferences, calls for papers, critical thinking, Informal Logic, logic, philosophy, philosophy conferences, reasoning, reasoning conferences on June 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
CALL FOR PAPERS: AILACT @ the APA Eastern Division, December 28-30, 2011, Washington, DC Deadline: July 31 We are now accepting proposals on any relevant topic for the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) session to be held in conjunction with this year’s Eastern Division meetings of the APA. Papers, papers-with-commentators, author-meets-critics, and [...]
Open Access to Cogency
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Connections, Discussion, Fallacies, Informal Logic, Pragma-dialectics, Rationality, Rhetoric, tagged Argumentation, argumentation journals, CEAR, Cogency, free content from journals, Informal Logic, informal logic journals, logic journals, open access journals, Pragma-dialectics, Rationality, Rhetoric, rhetoric jourals, Universidad Diego Portales on June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m pleased to announce here on RAIL that the journal Cogency has allowed open access to it’s first four issues. I’m not sure if they plan to continue this policy, as, for instance, Informal Logic does, but for now it’s a great opportunity to check out what is already a diverse and interesting array of [...]
CFP: First Issue of EID&A
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, CFP, Connections, Discourse Analysis, Informal Logic, Rhetoric, tagged argumentation journals, CFP, discourse analysis, EID&A, Electronic Journal of Integrated Studies in Discourse and Argumentation, new journal, online journals, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz on June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Note: This is a re-posting to remind readers that the CFP deadline is fast approaching! This Call for Papers is for the first issue of the Electronic Journal of Integrated Studies in Discourse and Argumentation From the EID&A home page: Linked to the Department of Arts and Literature of Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, the [...]
New Online Journal: American Dialectic
Posted in Announcements, Connections, Discussion, tagged AD, American Dialectic, dialectic, discourse, intellectual responsibility, new philosophy journals, online philosophy journals, philosophy, public reasoning on June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
An interesting find for me this week was the online philosophy journal American Dialectic. Unlike most online journals AD doesn’t aspire simply to be the online version of a print journal. It aims, instead, to encourage thoughtful discussion by publishing focused responses to the articles and (ostensibly at least) having authors respond to readers’ questions [...]
CFP: Jurix 2011
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Connections, tagged digital rights management, JURIX, JURIX 2011, Katie Atkinson, legal argumentation, legal education, legal informatics, legal reasoning conferences, philosophy of law, semantic webs, The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, University of Vienna on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Call for Papers: JURIX 2011, The 24th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems University of Vienna, Austria, 14th-16th December 2011 Conference website: http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/JURIX2011/ The JURIX conference has been running annually for over 20 years and provides an international forum for both academics and practitioners in the field of legal informatics to meet and [...]
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