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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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CPH LU Workshops in Social Epistemology SEPT 27, 2011: University of Copenhagen, Denmark DEC 9, 2011: University of Lund, Sweden http://www.fil.lu.se/conferences/conference.asp?id=43&lang=se Themes – Pluralistic Ignorance – Information Cascades – Belief Polarization – Echo Chambers To present formal or informal work on one or more of the above themes, please send a max. 500 word abstract [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AT ESSLLI 2011 Meeting: 23rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) Date: 01-Aug-2011 – 12-Aug-2011 Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Contact Email: esslli2011@gmail.com Meeting URL: http://esslli2011.ijs.si/ Early registration deadline: 31-05-2011 ******************************************************************************** *Meeting Description* For the past 23 years, the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) has been organized [...]

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Scottish Argumentation Day The 2011 Scottish Argumentation Day will take place at the University of Aberdeen on the 4th of March in Room A31 of the Taylor Building (lunch will be provided). Scotland contains a number of world leading centres for argumentation research, and the purpose of the day is to bring together students, post-doctoral [...]

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The Centre for Research on Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric announces a Summer Institute on “Reasoning and Argument: Computing and Cognitive Science Perspectives,” to be held at the University of Windsor, May 9-27, 2011.  Attendees can enroll in a 500-level graduate course at the University of Windsor entitled “Current Issues in Argumentation Studies” for either Arts [...]

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Dear colleagues We would like to let you know about our new book which has just been published: Reason in the Balance: An Inquiry Approach to Critical Thinking. The approach taken to critical thinking instruction is dialectical, focusing on the kind of comparative evaluation of contending positions and arguments which we make in actual contexts of [...]

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