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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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 »
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 [...]
ESSLLII 2011
Posted in Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged Computation, ESSLLII, ESSLLII 2011, European Summer School in Logic, language, Language and Information, lingusitics, logic on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Scottish Argumentation Day
Posted in Announcements, Connections, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged Argumentation, Discussion, Nir Oden, Scottish Argumentation Day, University of Aberdeen on February 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
CRRAR Summer Institute 2011
Posted in Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged Chris Reed, CRRAR, CRRAR Summer Institute, Marcello Guarini on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
New Text Book Announcement: Reason in the Balance: An Inquiry Approach to Critical Thinking
Posted in News, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, Teaching, tagged argumentation theory textbooks, Bailin, Battersby, Reason in the Balance on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]