At this point, Hendricks has already removed some of the images, in particular these, which I caught with screen shots.  The page has now changed to indicate they come from a magazine spread, which does not mitigate Hendricks’ choice to use cheesecake to advertise logic.  Perhaps mooning is a new transformation rule that he’s taught his students?

A similar arrogance, though not specifically sexist, was noted on the part of Hendricks by the Leiter Report, when he shut down criticisms of creationism.  Leiter  credits the  feminist philosophers blog for breaking the cheesecake story, (I thank them for my first joke,) and you can find more discussion there.  But here on RAIL are the screen shots everyone has asked for as a record of what logic looks like without feminism, even now.

Vienna, Austria, September 10-12, 2012

CALL FOR INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS

CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS

4th International Conference on

COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF ARGUMENT (COMMA 2012)

www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/comma2012/

AIMS AND SCOPE

Argumentation is an exciting research topic in artificial intelligence, with a broad spectrum of research activities ranging from  theory to applications. The International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA) is a regular forum for presentation and exchange of the latest research results related to computational aspects of argumentation. After the successful editions in Liverpool (2006), Toulouse (2008) and Desenzano del Garda (2010), COMMA 2012 will be held in Vienna in September 2012.

TOPICS

Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Formal, semi-formal and informal models for argumentation

* Dialogue based on argumentation

* Strategies in argumentation

* Argumentation and game theory

* Argumentation and probability

* Argumentation and narrative

* Analogical argumentation

* Computational properties of argumentation

* Reasoning about action and time with argumentation

* Decision making based on argumentation

* Argumentation in agent and multi-agent systems

* Argumentation for coordination and coalition formation

* Argumentation-based negotiation

* Argumentation, trust and reputation

* Argumentation and human-computer interaction

* Systems for learning through argument

* Implementation of argumentation systems

* Tools for supporting argumentation

SPECIAL TRACK: INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS

Next to papers about theoretical results (in the conference’s regular track), we encourage the submission of original papers about innovative applications,  e.g., in law, medicine, e-democracy, risk assessment, intelligent user  interfaces, recommender systems. Innovative applications papers will be  assessed in an equally rigorous reviewing procedure as regular track  papers.

DEMONSTRATIONS

As in the previous conferences, a session will be organized for the demonstration of innovative working applications and tools. Systems of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Innovative applications in law, medicine, e-democracy, risk assessment, intelligent user interfaces, recommender systems

* Argumentation-based reasoners

* Systems for generating arguments from knowledge bases

* Systems for editing, presenting and judging arguments and counterarguments

* Collaborative and social systems based on argumentation

* Simulations of dialogue-based argumentation

* Argumentation-based agents and multi-agent systems

* Decision support systems based on argumentation

All those intending to demonstrate a system should notify the demonstrations coordinator (Adam Wyner). Where a demonstration is not connected to a paper in a track, a two page extended abstract about the system should be submitted for review directly to the demonstrations coordinator following the conference style. Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. For those demonstrations that are connected to a paper in the standard track or innovative applications track, no separate statement about the demonstration should be submitted.

SUBMISSIONS

We invite submission of original and unpublished work. Parallel submissions to journals or other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not permitted. Paper submission will be managed through EasyChair and will be open between March 1 and March 30.

If you want your paper to be considered for the innovative applications track, please submit your paper via Easychair and also send a message to the program chair (b.verheij@ai.rug.nl).

Extended abstracts for demonstrations should be sent directly to the demonstration coordinator of the conference, Adam Wyner (adam@wyner.info).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:            March 30, 2012 (standard track and innovative applications track)

Demonstration submission deadline:    April 15, 2012

Notification of acceptance:           May 23, 2012

Final version of accepted papers:     June 20, 2012

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings for the conference will be published by IOS Press in the “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” series. The length of each submission should not exceed 12 pages. Authors should prepare their submission following the instructions by IOS Press available from the conference website: www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/comma2012/

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

An award will be given to the best student paper.

INVITED SPEAKERS

* Trevor Bench-Capon (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

* Erik Krabbe (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

* Keith Stenning (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

* Program Chair:              Bart Verheij  (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

* Conference Chairs:          Stefan Szeider and Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

* Demonstrations coordinator: Adam Wyner (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

CALL FOR PAPERS

NMR 2012

14th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2012)

http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/NMR12/

Co-located with KR 2012, DL 2012, KiBP 2012, CILC 2012, AI*IA 2012

Rome, Italy

June 8-10, 2012

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AIMS AND SCOPE

The NMR workshop series is the premier specialized forum for researchers in
non-monotonic reasoning and related areas. This will be the 14th workshop in
the series. Its aim is to bring together active researchers in the broad area
of non-monotonic reasoning, including belief revision, reasoning about
actions, argumentation, declarative programming, preferences, non-monotonic
reasoning for ontologies, uncertainty, and other related topics.

In this year, NMR will share a joint session together with the International
Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2012).

TOPICS

NMR 2012 welcomes the submission of papers broadly centered on issues and
research in non-monotonic reasoning. We welcome papers of either a
theoretical or practical nature. Topics of interest include (but are not
limited to):
- abductive reasoning and diagnosis
- algorithms and complexity analysis
- argumentation and argument-based non-monotonic logics
- answer set programming
- belief revision and information fusion
- belief updating and inconsistency handling
- declarative programming for non-monotonic reasoning
- default reasoning
- empirical studies of reasoning strategies
- foundations of non-monotonic reasoning
- hybrid approaches (nonmonotonic reasoning combined with
other computing paradigms)
- implementations and systems
- non-monotonic logics in multi-agent interaction, including
negotiation and dispute resolution
- non-monotonic reasoning for ontologies
- reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty
- reasoning with preferences
- representing actions and planning
- similarity-based reasoning

SUBMISSIONS

Papers must describe original research and should not exceed 9 pages
in AAAI style (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php)
including references, figures, and appendixes if any.

The best paper among the ones written solely by students (i.e. persons
not holding a PhD as of March 10th, 2012) will be awarded a prize of
400 Euros. Authors of such papers are requested to indicate their
eligibility upon submission at Easychair.
Short Papers (max. 4 pages) presenting implemented systems related to NMR
are also welcome!

Paper submission will be handled electronically by means of the
Easychair system. Papers must be submitted in PDF only.
The submission page is available at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nmr2012

NMR does not ask authors to sign over the copyright of their papers.
Copyright therefore lies with the authors, and as far as NMR is concerned,
they are free to submit to other conferences and workshops as well.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:        March 10, 2012
Notification:               April 22, 2012
Camera-ready articles due:  May 4, 2012
Workshop:                   June 8-10, 2012

PROCEEDINGS

The workshop contributions will be published electronically.

LOCATION

The workshop will be held in the conference rooms of
Sapienza Università di Roma.

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Riccardo Rosati       (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
Stefan Woltran        (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Katie Atkinson (University of Liverpool)
Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Research Labs)
Christoph Beierle (FernUniversitaet in Hagen)
Trevor Bench-Capon (University of Liverpool)
Guido Boella (Universita’ degli Studi di Torino)
Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg)
Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig)
Jan Broersen (Universiteit Utrecht)
John Cantwell (KTH, Stockholm)
Claudette Cayrol (Université Paul Sabatier)
Nadia Creignou (University Marseille)
Marina De Vos (University of Bath)
Jim Delgrande (Simon Fraser University)
Juergen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Sylvie Doutre (University of Toulouse)
Conrad Drescher (University of Oxford)
Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam)
Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria)
Michael Fink (Vienna University of Technology)
Giorgos Flouris (FORTH-ICS, Greece)
Martin Gebser (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Guido Governatori (National ICT Australia)
Sven-Ove Hansson (KTH Stockholm)
Zhisheng Huang (Free University of Amsterdam)
Matti Järvisalo (University of Helsinki)
Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technische Universitaet Dortmund)
Frederic Koriche (Université Montpellier II)
Thomas Lukasiewicz (Oxford University)
Tommie Meyer (Meraka Institute, Pretoria)
Alessandra Mileo (DERI Galway)
David Mitchell (Simon Fraser University)
Nir Oren (University of Aberdeen)
Maurice Pagnucco (University of New South Wales)
Laurent Perrussel (Université de Toulouse 1)
Reinhard Pichler (Vienna University of Technology)
Henri Prade (Université Paul Sabatier)
Ken Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University)
Guillermo Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur)
Terrance Swift (Stony Brook University)
Michael Thielscher (The University of New South Wales)
Francesca Toni (Imperial College London)
Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky)
Joost Vennekens (K.U. Leuven)
Bart Verheij (University of Groningen)
Renata Wassermann (Universidade de São Paulo)
Simon Wells (University of Dundee)
Emil Weydert (University of Luxembourg)

CONTACT

nmr12@dbai.tuwien.ac.at

Call for Proposals

Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)

VIRTUES of ARGUMENTATION

May 22-25, 2013 University of Windsor

Keynote speakers:

Daniel H. Cohen, Department of Philosophy, Colby College

Marianne Doury, Communication & Politics, CNRS – Paris

G. Thomas Goodnight, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California

The OSSA Organizing Committee invites proposals for papers that deal with argumentation, especially those that pertain to the practice of argumentation and its virtues.

Abstracts prepared for blind refereeing must be submitted electronically to the Program Committee no later than SEPTEMBER 7, 2012, to <ossa@uwindsor.ca>

(write ‘[your last name] OSSA abstract’ in the subject line).

Abstracts should be between 200 and 250 words long. Additional information on how to prepare proposals will be available on the conference website in the coming months: www.uwindsor.ca/ossa.

OSSA wishes to promote the work of graduate students and young scholars in the field of argumentation studies. Thus we strongly encourage submissions from this group.

The J. Anthony Blair Prize ($1000 CDN) will be awarded to the student paper presented at the Conference judged to be especially worthy of recognition. The competition is open to all students whose proposals are accepted for the Conference.

Canadian graduate students who need financial assistance in order to attend should advise us when submitting their proposals.

For the purpose of the Conference, a graduate student is one who has not completed her/his graduate program by September 7, 2012.  (Additional information about this prize will also be available on the website.)

Organizing Committee:

H. V. Hansen – C. W. Tindale – C. E, Hundleby

University of Windsor

www.uwindsor.ca/ossa

The Workshop, sponsored by CERMEG (Research Centre on Legal Methodology), will be held 7-8 June 2012 at the University of Trento, Faculty of Law, Italy.

The Workshop provides an opportunity for researchers and doctoral students to discuss current issues in the field of argumentation and rhetoric.

Program

7th June 2012 h. 15.00/19.00

1^th SESSION – PUBLIC DISCOURSE AND RHETORIC

Keynote Speaker

Frans H. van Eemeren – University of Amsterdam

Speaker

            Eveline T. Feteris – University of Amsterdam

8th June 2012 h. 10.00/13.00

2^nd SESSION – LANGUAGE AND RHETORIC

Keynote Speaker

Christian Plantin – ICAR, Université Lyon 2

Speaker

Fabrizio Macagno – Universidade Nova de Lisboa

8th June 2012 h. 15.00/18.00

3^rd – LEGAL EDUCATION AND RHETORIC

Keynote Speakers

Bice Mortara Garavelli – University of Turin

Adelino Cattani – University of Padua

The official languages of the conference are English and Italian.

The workshop is free of charge and open to researchers working on argumentation and related issues. Participants pay their own travel and accommodation fees.

Please visit the CERMEG website at http://www.cermeg.it/eng/. The site will be updated as information is available. For any additional information, please contact Dr. Federico Puppo (federico.puppo@unitn.it).

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A related objective is to make the state of the art accessible to audiences who predominantly reconstruct natural language argumentation with more traditional formal or informal tools.

The workshop will be held 20-21 September 2012, following the GAP.8 conference at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Speakers (w/ preliminary titles)

Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
“The formal, the formalized, and the history of logic”

Georg Dorn (Salzburg, Austria)
“Logical formalization of argument hierarchies”

Hans Rott (Regensburg, Germany)
“Argumentation, common ground and presupposition accommodation”

Henry Prakken (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
“Argumentation frameworks in AI”

Tom Gordon (Berlin, Germany)
“Evaluating complex legal argumentation”

Ulrike Hahn (Cardiff, UK)
“Bayesian analysis of natural language arguments”

Commentators

Christoph Lumer (Sienna, Italy) on Hans Rott
Frank Zenker (Lund, Sweden) on Ulrike Hahn
Michael Baumgartner (Konstanz, Germany) on Tom Gordon
Friedrich Reinmuth (Greifswald, Germany) on Georg Dorn
Gregor Betz (Karlsruhe, Germany) on Henry Prakken
Georg Brun (Zurich, Switzerland) on Catarina Dutilh Novaes

The workshop is free and open to researchers working on this or related themes. Please register here.

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 boundaries between these domains. The summer school is loosely modeled on the long-running ESSLLI series in Europe; it consists of a number of courses and workshops which, by default, meet for 90 minutes on each of five days.

Courses

In the main week of the school, students select up to five courses from among twenty that are offered. Of these courses, five are from specially invited lecturers, and the remainder are researchers selected because they are leaders in their fields and also because they have proven ability to communicate with interdisciplinary audiences. These instructors were selected after a public call for course proposals and a peer review process by the program committee, which is drawn from a wide range of specialities including linguistics, philosophy, and computer science. Over 45 course proposals were submitted for NASSLLI 2012. These were high quality proposals by established scholars, mostly tenured or tenure-track at research universities, and many strong proposals had to be rejected. The acceptance rate for course proposals was 30%.

As well as the main five days of courses, there will be events on the weekends before and afterwards. During the weekend afterwards we have two events scheduled, and expect to announce more. First, there will be a symposium celebrating the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth. Second, the Texas Linguistic Forum conference is scheduled, an open peer-reviewed Linguistics conference which this year will have sessions on Semantics and American Sign Language. We will soon be announcing special tutorials and bootcamp courses for the weekend prior to the main week of courses.

History

NASSLLI 2012 will be the fifth edition of the school, the previous four having taken place at Stanford University, Indiana University (twice), and UCLA. It follows in the tradition of the very successful series of ESSLLI summer schools in Europe, and both have received sponsorship from a single parent organization, the Foundation for Logic, Language, and Information (FOLLI). NASSLLI is an interdisciplinary event with emphases in applied logic, computational linguistics, and areas of computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and economics. Despite the obvious differences in the goals of these fields, they depend upon many of the same mathematical tools, and are concerned with many parallel philosophical issues. This is reflected in a great deal of crossover work: examples that have created whole new subfields include the application of dynamic logics and feature logics from computer science to problems in linguistics. However, in spite of there being an active community of interdisciplinary scholars, departments in US universities tend to follow traditional disciplinary lines, so that it is often difficult for graduate students to access courses in neighboring fields. NASSLLI’s role is to provide access for graduate students to cutting edge research on logic, language, and information, specifically taught for an interdisciplinary audience.

Sponsorship

NASSLLI 2012 is generously sponsored by the National Science Foundation, The College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin, and the Linguistics, Philosophy and Psychology departments at UT.

Further details:

• NASSLLI 2012 be held on the UT Austin campus. UT Austin is a large research university set in what is widely agreed to be one of the most fun cities in the US, the self-styled “Live Music Capital of the World.”
• Dorm accommodation will be available, and we will also provide links to alternative accommodation options.
• Registration details are soon to be announcted. Expected registration cost is $175.
• Scholarships will be available for 50 students, and an application procedure will be announced shortly. These scholarships will include the cost of registration, accommodation in a shared dorm room, and a further travel subsidy of up to $200.

NASSLLI homepage: http://nasslli2012.com/index

That there is a relationship between publicness and democracy has often been taken for granted. However, at this time of widespread instability, political upheaval and experimentation, when publics are increasingly being called upon to act, it is sometimes in the name of democracy, but not always. By exploring how ideas and practices of publicness and democracy are being constituted, enacted, related and reconfigured in different settings, this workshop aims to investigate the modes of public action and democracy being invoked, imagined and struggled over around the world. We welcome paper proposals from a diversity of approaches, particularly research and works in progress that help us to collectively consider:

- How issues become matters of public concern and how, where and when public practices intersect with forms of democracy, or other forms of politics?
- How actors (individuals, groups, institutions, networks, materials, devices) become public and whether forms of democratic politics emerge as a result?
- How public spaces are assembled and how they become spaces of democratic or other forms of politics?
- How relations between modes of public action and forms of democratic politics are being mediated and how methodologically such relations can be traced, mapped, analysed, theorised and better understood?

Building on the success of the July 2011 interdisciplinary workshop, Creating Publics[1], we seek working papers from fields including (but not limited to): anthropology, politics and public policy, cultural studies, environmental studies, sociology, science and technology studies, information studies, geography, planning and media studies. We hope that through engaging with empirical and/or conceptual works together, this workshop will serve as an opening for conversations about the creation of publics and democracies.

We invite abstracts of up to 250 words to be submitted to Sarah Batt (a.s.c.batt@open.ac.uk) by 16 March 2012. For further information or if you have questions, please contact Sue Pell (exs02sp@gold.ac.uk). The workshop programme will be announced in May.

The two-day workshop event will be held in central London on 18 & 19 June 2012. This initiative is a collaboration organised by: The Publics Research Programme at The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at the Open University; The Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster; The Centre for Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

[1] Creating Publics, July 2010: see http://www8.open.ac.uk/ccig/events/creating-publics-workshop
See: Publics Research Programme: http://www8.open.ac.uk/ccig/programmes/publics
Centre for the Study of Democracy: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/centre-for-the-study-of-democracy

Original event posting via: http://discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=en%3A%3AEvents&id=662