This 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 The kinderwhore fashion is ten years out of date and provides too little clothing for Copenhagen. In all seriousness, it’s [...]
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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 | 8 Comments »
CFP: 14th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2012)
Posted in CFP, Connections, Computation, Argumentation, 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 [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
CFP: Persons and their Brains
Posted in CFP, Connections, Rationality, tagged calls for papers, Ian Ramsey Centre, identity, neuroculture, neuroscience and philosophy, personhood on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“PERSONS AND THEIR BRAINS” CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS: 11-14 July 2012, St Anne’s College, Oxford Organised by the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford www.ianramseycentre.ox.ac.uk Email: irc.admin@theology.ox.ac.uk _____________________________________________ BACKGROUND It is now over 20 years since Churchland’s book Neurophilosophy was published, and in its wake whole disciplines have sprung into being, proudly sporting [...]
Dancing an Explanation
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, Teaching, tagged Black Label Movement, dance, dance your phd, explanation, explanations, John Bohannon, Michael Gilbert, visual argument on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some readers of RAIL may already with John Bohannon’s brilliant competition Dance your PhD. In the video below, given at a TED event in Brussels, Bohannon generalizes the point that Dance your PhD essentially makes: Explanations can be effectively delivered in any number of ways. Though the suggestion that dancers might replace the ubiquitous and [...]
On Being Your Own Argument
Posted in Connections, News, Rhetoric, tagged occupy demands, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, political discourse, political rhetoric, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Citizenship on November 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s be honest about this, coverage of the Occupy movement has neither been fair nor balanced in most cases. What coverage there has been has usually centered on 1) how much of a mess these sites are making, 2) on how the absence of explicit demands makes them “incoherent”, and 3) on how the major [...]
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