The Scrutable Autonomous Systems (SAsSy) project aims to enable the scrutiny of autonomous systems by allowing agents to generate plans through argument and dialogue, while justifying the purpose of each step within the joint plan. Humans or agent can then critique these plans by suggesting and justifying alternative courses of actions as needed, thus driving [...]
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Post Doc Postion in Argumentation and Explanation
Posted in Argumentation, Computation, Job Openings, tagged artgumentation and explanation, dialogue logic, post doc positions in argumentation, scrutable autonomous systems on May 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
14th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2012)
Posted in Announcements, Logic, Seminar, tagged AI*IA 2012, CILC 2012, DL 2012, KiBP 2012, KR 2012, logic, NMR 2012, non-monotonic reasoning on April 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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, CILC 2012, AI*IA 2012, KiBP 2012 Rome, Italy June 8-10, 2012 IMPORTANT DATES FOR REGISTRATION NMR-12 Registration fee includes lunches for three workshop days, coffee breaks, and one ticket for the social event. Previous registration [...]
2012 AILACT Prize
Posted in CFP, Contests & Competitions, tagged AILACT, AILACT Essay Prize, argumentation theory, critical thinking, Informal Logic on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking invites submissions the 2012 AILACT Essay Prize. Value: $300 U.S. The prize-winning paper will be published in Informal Logic, contingent upon meeting the conditions specified in the prize’s notice, available at http://ailact.mcmaster.ca/. Papers related to the teaching or theory of informal logic or critical thinking, and papers [...]
American Dialectic’s Annual Dissertation Competition
Posted in Announcements, Contests & Competitions, tagged American Dialectic, American Dialectic Charitable Trust, dissertation contests, philosophy on April 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Knowing that the process of intellectual development begins long before publication, The American Dialectic Charitable Trust provides opportunities for promising individuals whose efforts and contributions might otherwise go unaided or unrecognized. The Annual Dissertation Contest provides visibility and support for promising new scholars in philosophy and related fields, promoting individuals who continually develop themselves intellectually in such [...]
Informal Logic, vol. 32 no.1
Posted in Announcements, Discussion, Informal Logic, tagged argument theory, Ben Hamby, Christoph Lumer, Cristián Santibáñez Yáñez, Dan Sperber, David Botting, Hugo Mercier, Lilian Bermejo-Luque, Louise Cummings, Michael Gary Duncan on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Informal Logic vol. 32 no. 1 The latest edition of Informal Logic is now available. Contributing authors to this volume include Lilian Bermejo-Luque , Louise Cummings , Christoph Lumer, Michael Gary Duncan, David Botting and Ben Hamby. While there are, as usual, several very interesting articles, of particular interest to readers of RAIL will be Cristián [...]
Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, Rhetoric, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged argument, Argumentation, argumentation conferences, political discourse, reasoning, University of Windsor, visual argumentation on March 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The program for the University of Windsor symposium on Psychology, Emotion and the Human Sciences is now available at http://www.thehumansciences.com/programme/. Registration should be available in a few days.
Philopolis at Guelph
Posted in Announcements, Critical Thinking, Discussion, News, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, Uncategorized, Workshops on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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