The purpose of this international workshop is to bring together researchers who apply formal methods, widely understood, to natural language argumentation in order to provide a reconstruction which can provide the basis for an evaluation. A related objective is to make the state of the art accessible to audiences who predominantly reconstruct natural language argumentation with more [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Workshop: Formal Methods in Argument Reconstruction
Posted in Computation, Connections, Rationality, Workshops, tagged Argumentation, artificial intelligence, Bayesian reasoning, formal methods in argumentation, GAP 8, legal argumentation, natural language arguments on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
NASSLLI 2012
Posted in Announcements, Connections, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged belief revision, computational learning, information theory, language, NASSLLII 2012 logic, vagueness on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The fifth North American Summer School of Logic, Language, and Information, NASSLLI 2012, will be hosted at the University of Texas at Austin, on June 18–22, 2012. Overview NASSLLI is a one-week summer school aimed at formally-minded graduate students in Philosophy, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, and related fields, especially students whose interests cross over traditional [...]
Burden of proof and intellectual property
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, Teaching, tagged Black Label Movement, dance, dance your phd, explanation, explanations, John Bohannon, Michael Gilbert, visual argument on January 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Do PIPA and SOPA threaten to reverse legal burden of proof in the US? Clay Shirky argues they do. I don’t know enough about the legal system, or the proposed legislation. However, this is a serious allegation with implications far beyond the US.
CFP: Creating Publics, Creating Democracies
Posted in CFP, tagged democracies, democratic politics, political discourse, political theory, public space, public sphere, publics, Rhetoric on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Status: CfP Call for papers Conference Creating Publics, Creating Democracies 18.06.12-19.06.12 University of Westminster, London, UK That there is a relationship between publicness and democracy has often been taken for granted. However, at this time of widespread instability, political upheaval and experimentation, when publics are increasingly being called upon to act, it is sometimes in [...]
CFP: The Communication of Certainty and Uncertainty
Posted in CFP, Discourse Analysis, tagged calls for papers, certainty, IADA, linguistics conferences, philosophy conferences, psychology conferences, uncertainty, University of Macerata on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Communication of Certainty and Uncertainty: linguistic, psychological, philosophical aspects Friday, 21 October 2011 19:33 3 – 5 October 2012 University of Macerata (Italy) The Certainty or Uncertainty of a piece of information communicated by a speaker plays a significant role both in building knowledge or beliefs in the interlocutor’s mind and in choosing the [...]
Trolls
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Fallacies, Rhetoric, tagged fallacies, internet, internet culture, internet etiquette, netiquette, Rhetoric, trolls on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The increasing popularity of on-line discussions has given rise to an argumentative neologism that may be more widely applicable: “trolls.” Trolls commit an inappropriate move in an argument, saying something unreasonable that derails the discussion. (I recall analogously in my highschool biology class we learned to ask the teacher, Mr. Houghton, about living through the [...]
New Addition to the Resources Page
Posted in Announcements, Critical Thinking, Teaching, tagged Mark Battersby, Reason in the Balance, Sharon Bailin on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Battersby and Sharon Bailin have created a blog to supplement their excellent textbook, Reason in the Balance. I have added it to the RAIL Resources page. You can also have a look at it here. Reason in the Balance presents students with a novel, inquiry-based approach to critical thinking. If you haven’t had a [...]
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