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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Open Positions in Formal Argumentation Research
Posted in Computation, Job Openings, tagged Argumentation jobs, artificial intelligence, Bayesian Networks, Designing and Understanding Forensic Bayesian Networks with Arguments and Scenarios, forensic science research jobs, University of Groningen, University of Utrecht on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
PhD positions Forensic Science (2,0 fte) Job description These two PhD positions are part of the project “Designing and Understanding Forensic Bayesian Networks with Arguments and Scenarios” that is funded by the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Research in the Forensic Science program (www.nwo.nl/forensicscience). The project is a cooperation of the University of Groningen (Department of [...]
Cogency vol. 3 no.1 Now Available
Posted in Announcements, Informal Logic, Pragma-dialectics, Rationality, Rhetoric, tagged argumentation conferences, Cogency journal, Gilbert Harman, J. Anthony Blair, Scott Aikin on December 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
RAIL is happy to announce the appearance of the latest issue of the journal Cogency! Click on the image to the right to view the table of contents for this issue. The articles named therein make me wish this weren’t final exam season. Among them is an article by Tony Blair on the moral normativity [...]
SEP Entry on Informal Logic Updated
Posted in Announcements, Informal Logic, tagged Informal Logic, Leo Groarke, stanford encyclopedia of philosophy on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick announcement here to let you know that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Informal Logic has been updated by author Leo Groarke. The update is a substantial one and includes a great many new resources in the links section. Thanks are due to Leo for his work on this. Do check [...]
Informal Logic vol. 31 no. 4, on Charles Hamblin
Posted in Announcements, Informal Logic, tagged and Jan Ablert van Laar, Charles Hamblin, Douglas Walton, Fabrizio Macagno, fallacies, Jim Mackenzie, John Woods, Ralph Johnson on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The latest edition of Informal Logic, dedicated to topics emerging from Charles Hamblin’s landmark 1970 work, Fallacies, is now available. Contributing authors to this volume include Jim Mackenzie, Douglas Walton, Ralph Johnson, Fabrizio Macagno, and Jan Ablert van Laar and John Woods.It’s an interesting and welcome collection of essays with entries that range from developments [...]
Two New Books via CRRAR
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Informal Logic, tagged Blair papers, conductive argument, CRRAR, J. Anthony Blair, new argumentation books on November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today CRRAR announced the publication of two new books that should be of interest to those working in the fields of argumentation studies and informal logic. The first is a collection of papers by co-founder of the informal logic movement J. Anthony Blair. The volume collects works spanning 30 years of research of one of [...]
CFP – Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, CFP on November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Call for papers: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice The past few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the philosophy of medicine and health care. Controversies about evidence, value, clinical knowledge, judgment, integrity and ethics have required practitioners and policy-makers to confront the epistemic and moral basis of practice, while philosophers have found [...]
Open Access to THEORIA Symposium Issue on Bermejo-Luque’s “Giving Reasons”
Posted in Announcements, Discussion, tagged David Hitchcock, Giving Reasons, Harvey Siegel, James Freeman, John Biro, Lilian Bermejo-Luque, Luis Vega, Robert Pinto, THEORIA journal on October 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The journal THEORIA has just published its 72nd issue with a symposium on Lilian Bermejo-Luque’s, Giving Reasons (Springer, 2011. Argumentation Series). The discussants are John Biro, Harvey Siegel, James B. Freeman, David Hitchcock, Robert C. Pinto and Luis Vega. In Giving Reasons, Bermejo-Luque attempts to set out and defend an original approach to argumentation theory [...]
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