University of Guelph graduate students (it’s my understanding) have been organizing in a serious fashion to take philosophy out of the ivory tower. A two-day series of events, with six concurrent sessions addresses issues from Einstein to zombies, heuristics, and feminism. Philopolis Guelph, inspired by Philopolis Montreal aims to “[do] a better job [than academic [...]
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Philopolis at Guelph
Posted in Announcements, Critical Thinking, Discussion, News, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, Uncategorized, Workshops on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The art of subversion
Posted in About RAIL, Critical Thinking, News on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Steve and I have had an extended discussion about the subversive potential of art since the (latest) Hendricks scandal broke. The case of the public library in Troy, Michigan is a good case in point, I think, of how hiding the artistic quality of a communication can aid in critical thinking, foster political dialogue, and [...]
FEMMSS 4: Sessions on argumentation and communication
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The schedule is now available for FEMMSS 4, the fourth biennial conference of the Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies, to be held at Penn State (Nittany Lion Inn) May 10-12, 2012. The program includes a 2 1/2 hour plenary session on feminism and argumentation, plus a concurrent session on narrative and [...]
CFP: Frontiers of Rationality and Decision
Posted in CFP, Logic, Rationality, Summer School, tagged forrmal models of reasoning, Frontiers of Rationality and Decision, logic, practical rationality on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Frontiers of Rationality and Decision Final workshop of a European research network funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research 29-31 August 2012 University of Groningen, The Netherlands INTRODUCTION Formal models of theoretical rationality have seen major recent changes. The consequences for practical rationality have yet to be worked out. Over the past three years [...]
Women in logic
Posted in Connections, Critical Thinking, Discussion, Humor, Logic, tagged exploitation, feminism, logic, objectification, students, Vincent Hendricks, women in philosophy on February 22, 2012 | 17 Comments »
This [a disconnected link to a logic course webpage] is no way to get women into logic. The “naughty schoolgirls” Vince Hendricks, an editor of Synthese, probably the most prestigious epistemology journal, anticipates in his logic class will surprise the rest of us. The kinderwhore fashion is ten years out of date and provides too [...]
CFP: COMMA 2012
Posted in CFP, Computation, tagged argumentation and computing, artificial intelligence, COMMA 2012, computational argumentation, Fourth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fourth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument Vienna, Austria, September 10-12, 2012 CALL FOR INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS 4th International Conference on COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF ARGUMENT (COMMA 2012) www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/comma2012/ AIMS AND SCOPE Argumentation is an exciting research topic in artificial intelligence, with a broad spectrum of research activities ranging from theory to applications. [...]
CFP: 14th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2012)
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Computation, Connections, Logic, tagged Argumentation, belief revision, NMR 2012, non-classical logic, non-monotonic logic, non-monotonic reasoning, uncertainty on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
=============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS NMR 2012 14th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2012) http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/NMR12/ Co-located with KR 2012, DL 2012, KiBP 2012, CILC 2012, AI*IA 2012 Rome, Italy June 8-10, 2012 =============================================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE The NMR workshop series is the premier specialized forum for researchers in non-monotonic reasoning and related areas. This will [...]
CFP: OSSA 2013: Virtues of Argumentation
Posted in CFP, tagged Argumentation, C. Thomas Goodnight, calls for papers, Dan Cohen, Informal Logic, Marianne Doury, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, OSSA 2013, Rhetoric on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Call for Proposals Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) VIRTUES of ARGUMENTATION May 22-25, 2013 University of Windsor Keynote speakers: Daniel H. Cohen, Department of Philosophy, Colby College Marianne Doury, Communication & Politics, CNRS – Paris G. Thomas Goodnight, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California The OSSA Organizing Committee invites proposals [...]
GTR 2012: First International Workshop on Argumentation & Rhetoric in Public Discourse, Language, & Law
Posted in Seminar, tagged Adelino Cattani, Argumentation, Bice Mortara Garavelli, CERMEG, Christian Plantain, Frans van Eemeren, GTR 2012, legal argumentation, legal methodology, legal studies, linguistics, public discourse, Rhetoric on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The organizers wish to announce the 12th Annual Conference on Rhetoric «Giornate Tridentine di Retorica 12 – GTR 2012», as the First International Workshop on «Argumentation & Rhetoric (in Public Discourse, in Language, in Law)». The Workshop, sponsored by CERMEG (Research Centre on Legal Methodology), will be held 7-8 June 2012 at the University of [...]
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