RAIL is pleased to recommend the Special Issue of Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric on Argument and Computation. If, for some reason, you’re not yet paying attention to the things that are happening in the computation-based wing of argumentation theory, let me ever-so-humbly suggest that you should be. The excellent work being done in [...]
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CFP: ExaCt 2012
Posted in CFP, Computation, Connections, tagged AI conferences, ECAI 2012, ExaCt 2012, explanation, explanation aware computing on May 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS for the 7th International and ECAI 2012 Workshop on EXPLANATION-AWARE COMPUTING (ExaCt 2012) One-Day Workshop, 27 or 28 August 2012, Montpellier, France http://exact2012.workshop.hm ** Submission deadline: May 28, 2012 ** When knowledge-based systems are partners in interactive socio- technical processes, with incomplete [...]
Graduate course on Reasoning, one week intensive, Lund, Autumn 2012
Posted in Connections, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged cognitive psychology, Frank Zenker, graduate courses on reasoning, Lund University, philosophy on May 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Below are a few details about an intensive graduate course on reasoning to be held over one week at Lund University in Sweden. Credits earned will be transferable, and there is a possibility that help with accommodations may be made available. LUND UNIVERSITY Reasoning, 7,5 ECTS Lecturer: Frank Zenker Course dates: One week (Mo-Fr 10-12 [...]
(Another) Fallacies Infographic
Posted in Connections, Critical Thinking, Discussion, Fallacies, Teaching, tagged infographics, logical fallacies, yourlogicalfallacyis.com on April 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My but these things are popular. This one comes to us via yourlogicalfallacyis.com and is free to download in three sizes. The graphic is also downloadable as vector art for those saavy and motivated enough to want to work with the image some more. In terms of design I think I like this one the [...]
ArguBlogging
Posted in Argumentation, Computation, Connections, tagged AIF, ARG:Dundee, ArguBlogging, argument in blogging, Argumentation, blogging, blogosphere, Computation, internet culture on April 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The ever-industrious folks at ARG:Dundee (the group behind the popular argument diagramming software Araucaria) have a lovely new tool for keeping track of and participating in argumentation on the “blogosphere”. They call it “argublogging“. I think it’s an impressive extension of the work they’ve done on the Argument Interchcange Format, or AIF. The video below [...]
Sexism as a winning strategy in a sexist society
Posted in Argumentation, Connections, Fallacies, Uncategorized on March 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reblogged from Feminist Philosophers: In a sexist society where there is a very long tradition of women being excluded from a wide range of desirable public roles, we should expect many of the following things to be said of men and these roles: People expect a man to be doing X. People associate manliness with [...]
CFP: Symposium on Influencing People with Information
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Computation, Connections, tagged decision support, decision systems, how information influences decision-making, informatics, information presentation, inter-disciplinary conferences, natural language generation, SICSA on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
First Announcement and Call for Papers Symposium “Influencing People with Information” University of Aberdeen, Wednesday 25 April 2012. For details, see http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc264/sipi-2012/ How can a web site help you decide how best to travel? Can a computer explain your patient record to you? Does instant feedback on petrol use change how people drive? This symposium will [...]
Stations: Argumentation Around the Web
Posted in Connections, Discussion, tagged argumentics, burden of proof, Jean Goodwin, thought experiments, Tim Van Gelder, Toulmin, YourView on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Though I’ve been keeping up with the CFP’s, RAIL readers may have noted that I’ve not been posting much else. Apologies for that! Deadlines, deadlines. At times like these I try to assuage my guilt for not writing more of my share of the content here by pointing RAIL readers to interesting posts on other [...]
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