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 [...]
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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 »
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 »
The program for the University of Windsor symposium on Psychology, Emotion and the Human Sciences is now available at http://www.thehumansciences.com/programme/. Registration should be available in a few days.
Philopolis at Guelph
Posted in Announcements, Critical Thinking, Discussion, News, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, Uncategorized, Workshops on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
University of Guelph graduate students (it’s my understanding) have been organizing in a serious fashion to take philosophy out of the ivory tower. A two-day series of events, with six concurrent sessions addresses issues from Einstein to zombies, heuristics, and feminism. Philopolis Guelph, inspired by Philopolis Montreal aims to “[do] a better job [than academic [...]
FEMMSS 4: Sessions on argumentation and communication
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The schedule is now available for FEMMSS 4, the fourth biennial conference of the Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies, to be held at Penn State (Nittany Lion Inn) May 10-12, 2012. The program includes a 2 1/2 hour plenary session on feminism and argumentation, plus a concurrent session on narrative and [...]
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 [...]
International Colloquium: Argumentation in Political Deliberation
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Pragma-dialectics, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged ArgLab, political argumentation, political deliberation, political discourse, political rhetoric, public sphere, strategic maneuvering on August 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
International Colloquium “Argumentation in Political Deliberation” ArgLab – IFL Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2 September 2011 Political deliberation, understood as a public debate aimed at forming political opinions and deciding what course of action to take, has traditionally been seen as a prime venue for public reasoning and [...]
Positions Open in PhD Program in Argumentation Theory
Posted in Announcements, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged Argumentation, ArguPolis, graduate programs in argumentation, legal argumentation, political argumentation, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, University of Lugano on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
2 positions are now open for a 4-year PhD programme at the ArgLab, Institute of Philosophy of Language, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, in the domain of political and legal argumentation. The programme is meant to include international cooperation, first of all within the ArguPolis framework developed by the University of Lugano and their partners. [...]
Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers: CMNA 2011
Posted in CFP, Computation, Connections, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged ARGMAS, Argumentation, CMNA 2011, COMMA, Computation, decision systems, dialogue, models of reasoning on March 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
2011 Workshop in Computational Models of Natural Argument The 2011 CMNA workshops will be held concurrently with the 25th AAAI Conference in San Francisco, CA, August 7-11. Description The series of CMNA workshops, since its inception in 2001, has been acting to nurture and provide succor to the ever growing community working in “Argument and [...]
Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute
Posted in Announcements, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged advocacy, Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellowship, BFTF, citizenship, communication, communication programs for high school students, democracy, fellowships for high school students, media, scholarship programs, summer institutes, summer programs for high school students, Wake Forest University on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
2011 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TRANSATLANTIC FELLOWS (BFTF) SUMMER INSTITUTE July 2-July 29, 2011 – Ages 16-18 Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC www.BFTF.org Do you know a teenager (16-18) who is interested in meeting young people from Europe, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia? Do they have an interest in learning more about transatlantic relationships, public advocacy and civic [...]