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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 »
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: 2013 Biennial ISHR Meeting in Chicago
Posted in CFP, Rhetoric, tagged art, cultural context., geographic areas, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, ISHR 2013, literary theory and criticism, philosophy, poetics, politics, religion, Rhetoric, rhetoric conferences on December 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
CALL FOR PAPERS The Nineteenth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) will be held in Chicago, USA, from Wednesday, July 24 to Saturday, July 27, 2013. The Biennial Conference of ISHR brings together several hundred specialists in the history of rhetoric from around thirty countries. SCHOLARLY FOCUS OF THE [...]
CFP: 2012 Congress of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric
Posted in CFP, Rhetoric, tagged Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, CSSR, CSSR Congress 2012, Rhetoric and Uncertainty, rhetoric conferences, Wilfrid Laurier University on December 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Call for Proposals 2011 The CSSR invites you to submit proposals for papers to be presented at its annual conference, to be held in conjunction with Congress 2012 at University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Dates for the CSSR conference will be May 31 – June 2, 2012. We will feature [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Improvisation and Argumentation
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, tagged argumenation, communication, dialectic, George Lewis, improvisation, speech acts, Vijay Iyer on November 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, the wonders of Twitter. In a chain of argumentation that wandered around quite a bit today, the question of improvisation (what it is, how best to characterize it, etc.) came up. For those RAIL readers who are classically trained rhetoricians, this question will no doubt call to mind Book Ten of Quintillian’s Institutio Oratoria, [...]
Informal Logic vol. 31 no.2
Posted in Announcements, Discussion, Informal Logic, Pragma-dialectics, Rhetoric, tagged argument diagramming, argument schemes, Argumentation, artificial intelligence, Cathal Woods, diagramming objections, Geoff Goddu, Informal Logic, intellectual empathy, Maureen Linker, process-product distinction, responding to prejudice, Tangming Yuan, Tim Kelly on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Volume 31, number 2 of Informal Logic is now available for your reading pleasure. Particularly recommended in this issue is Geoff Goddu’s 2010 AILACT Essay Prize-winning article on the process/product ambiguity. I had the good fortune to see this work in an earlier phase at ISSA last summer and I’m very happy to see it [...]
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