The organizers wish to announce the 12th Annual Conference on Rhetoric «Giornate Tridentine di Retorica 12 – GTR 2012», as the First International Workshop on «Argumentation & Rhetoric (in Public Discourse, in Language, in Law)». The Workshop, sponsored by CERMEG (Research Centre on Legal Methodology), will be held 7-8 June 2012 at the University of [...]
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GTR 2012: First International Workshop on Argumentation & Rhetoric in Public Discourse, Language, & Law
Posted in Seminar, tagged Adelino Cattani, Argumentation, Bice Mortara Garavelli, CERMEG, Christian Plantain, Frans van Eemeren, GTR 2012, legal argumentation, legal methodology, legal studies, linguistics, public discourse, Rhetoric on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Workshop: Formal Methods in Argument Reconstruction
Posted in Computation, Connections, Rationality, Workshops, tagged Argumentation, artificial intelligence, Bayesian reasoning, formal methods in argumentation, GAP 8, legal argumentation, natural language arguments on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The purpose of this international workshop is to bring together researchers who apply formal methods, widely understood, to natural language argumentation in order to provide a reconstruction which can provide the basis for an evaluation. A related objective is to make the state of the art accessible to audiences who predominantly reconstruct natural language argumentation with more [...]
Third Workshop on Complex Networks
Posted in CFP, Computation, tagged Argumentation, complex networks, complexity, Computation, third workshop on complex networks on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
3rd Workshop on Complex Networks Call for Papers/Abstracts This international workshop on complex networks (CompleNet 2012) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on areas related to complex networks. In the past two decades we have been witnessing an exponential increase on the number of publications in this field. From biological systems to computer [...]
CFP: Trends in Logic XI, 2012
Posted in CFP, tagged applied logic, Argumentation, belief revision, epistemology, formal epistemology, logic, logic conferences, non-monotonic logic, paraconsistent logic, paradoxes, semantics, truth on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
CALL FOR PAPERS: Trends in Logic XI, 2012 (Ruhr University Bochum) The 11th Trends in Logic international conference will be held at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, from June 3-June 5, 2012 under the title “Advances in Philosophical Logic”. It is organized by the chair of Logic and Epistemology at the Department of Philosophy II of [...]
CFP: Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences
Posted in CFP, tagged affective education, Argumentation, contemporary psychology and sociology, CRRAR, emotion, history of psychology, Informal Logic, Jon Elster, literary studies, philosophy, psychology, the history of emotion, the scholarship of teaching and learning, University of Windsor on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences A Symposium at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario Canada 20th to 21st of April, 2012. Deadline for Submissions: 1 November 2011 In Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions [Cambridge, 1999], Jon Elster argues that “with an important subset of the emotions [for example, regret, relief, envy, [...]
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 [...]
How Comments are Killing the Commons
Posted in Connections, Discussion, tagged Argumentation, communication, democracy, democratic deliberation, internet communications, internet culture, Letters of Note, online conversation, online exchanges, responsible communication, Shaun Usher, trust on June 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Last week Shaun Usher, custodian of the excellent website “Letters of Note” announced that he would close the comments section on all posts. He writes: All complaints should be directed towards a section of society to whom the concept of even vaguely civil discussion means nothing. …I simply cannot afford to continue mopping up after [...]
CFP: AILACT at APA Eastern
Posted in CFP, tagged AILACT, APA, APA Eastern Division Meeting, argument, Argumentation, argumentation conferences, calls for papers, critical thinking, Informal Logic, logic, philosophy, philosophy conferences, reasoning, reasoning conferences on June 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
CALL FOR PAPERS: AILACT @ the APA Eastern Division, December 28-30, 2011, Washington, DC Deadline: July 31 We are now accepting proposals on any relevant topic for the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) session to be held in conjunction with this year’s Eastern Division meetings of the APA. Papers, papers-with-commentators, author-meets-critics, and [...]
Open Access to Cogency
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Connections, Discussion, Fallacies, Informal Logic, Pragma-dialectics, Rationality, Rhetoric, tagged Argumentation, argumentation journals, CEAR, Cogency, free content from journals, Informal Logic, informal logic journals, logic journals, open access journals, Pragma-dialectics, Rationality, Rhetoric, rhetoric jourals, Universidad Diego Portales on June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m pleased to announce here on RAIL that the journal Cogency has allowed open access to it’s first four issues. I’m not sure if they plan to continue this policy, as, for instance, Informal Logic does, but for now it’s a great opportunity to check out what is already a diverse and interesting array of [...]
Edge Interview with Hugo Mercier
Posted in Argumentation, Connections, Discussion, Rationality, tagged argument, argument theory, Argumentation, argumentation theory and cognitive psychology, cognitive psychology, Dan Sperber, Edge, Hugo Mercier, Mercier and Sperber, Rationality, reasoning on May 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The world of those who study argument and who study reason and rationality is abuzz with talk of the provocative research of Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber. Anyone who was at last week’s OSSA conference heard their names in practically every other conversation or presentation. For my own part I’m not sure quite what to [...]
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