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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Open Access to Cogency
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Connections, Discussion, Fallacies, Informal Logic, Pragma-dialectics, Rationality, Rhetoric, tagged Argumentation, argumentation journals, CEAR, Cogency, free content from journals, Informal Logic, informal logic journals, logic journals, open access journals, Pragma-dialectics, Rationality, Rhetoric, rhetoric jourals, Universidad Diego Portales on June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m pleased to announce here on RAIL that the journal Cogency has allowed open access to it’s first four issues. I’m not sure if they plan to continue this policy, as, for instance, Informal Logic does, but for now it’s a great opportunity to check out what is already a diverse and interesting array of [...]
Horgan: “As a ‘New’ Critique of Reason, Argumentative Theory Is Trite but Useful”
Posted in Connections, Rationality, tagged anthropic principle, argument, argument theory, argumentative theory, cognitive psychology, Dan Sperber, Hugo Mercier, John Horgan, Rationality, reasoning, Scientific American on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Scientific American: Winning Argument: As a ‘New’ Critique of Reason, Argumentative Theory Is Trite but Useful. In recent posts here on RAIL I’ve been upfront about my tendency to like Mercier and Sperber’s work. Critical discussion of it, however, is still valuable and this short article in Scientific American by John Horgan is an accessible, [...]
Edge Interview with Hugo Mercier
Posted in Argumentation, Connections, Discussion, Rationality, tagged argument, argument theory, Argumentation, argumentation theory and cognitive psychology, cognitive psychology, Dan Sperber, Edge, Hugo Mercier, Mercier and Sperber, Rationality, reasoning on May 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The world of those who study argument and who study reason and rationality is abuzz with talk of the provocative research of Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber. Anyone who was at last week’s OSSA conference heard their names in practically every other conversation or presentation. For my own part I’m not sure quite what to [...]
Cognitive Dissonance, Deep Disagreement, and the Loch Ness Monster
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rationality, Rhetoric, tagged cognitive dissonance, Deep Disagreement, Goldacre, ISSA, Kraus, polarization, Sophists, Sunstein, Zarefsky on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cognitive dissonance is one of the best established notions in psychology. Simply put (perhaps too simply) the idea is that people in general will go to almost any length to hold onto a cherished belief, no matter how strong the evidence against it is, and no matter how irrational the attempt to do so may [...]
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