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 [...]
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CFP: OSSA 2013: Virtues of Argumentation
Posted in CFP, tagged Argumentation, C. Thomas Goodnight, calls for papers, Dan Cohen, Informal Logic, Marianne Doury, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, OSSA 2013, Rhetoric on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
SEP Entry on Informal Logic Updated
Posted in Informal Logic, Announcements, tagged Informal Logic, stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, Leo Groarke on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick announcement here to let you know that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Informal Logic has been updated by author Leo Groarke. The update is a substantial one and includes a great many new resources in the links section. Thanks are due to Leo for his work on this. Do check [...]
Name-dropping
Posted in Critical Thinking, Discussion, Informal Logic, Teaching, tagged critical thinking, Informal Logic, symbolic logic, teaching philosophy on November 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This article from the Denver Post stresses the usefulness of philosophy, including how “emphasis on informal and symbolic logic” helps with computer science. In accounts of philosophy curricula, unfortunately, reference to informal logic is typically just name-dropping, as the textbook authors are mostly not scholars in the field, and instructors rarely have any relevant training. [...]
CFP: Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences
Posted in CFP, tagged Informal Logic, philosophy, Argumentation, CRRAR, emotion, University of Windsor, psychology, Jon Elster, history of psychology, contemporary psychology and sociology, literary studies, the history of emotion, the scholarship of teaching and learning, affective education 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 [...]
“Baby Logic”, Critical Thinking, and the Liberal Arts
Posted in Teaching, Connections, Critical Thinking, tagged Teaching, Informal Logic, critical thinking, teaching logic, liberal arts, baby logic, Chronical of Higher Education, American universities, colleges, general education, formal logic, teaching critical thinking, Donald Lazere, education, education in America, critical thinking education on July 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Don Lazere’s short but punchy piece in the Chronicle on the beleaguered state of critical thinking education in the American academy is well worth a read. While I find myself agreeing with much of what he says, I think he misses one of the principal actors in the play: the increasing role of corporate influence [...]
CFP: AILACT at APA Eastern
Posted in CFP, tagged Informal Logic, argument, reasoning, philosophy, Argumentation, critical thinking, AILACT, logic, calls for papers, argumentation conferences, APA, APA Eastern Division Meeting, philosophy conferences, 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 Discussion, Connections, Rhetoric, Informal Logic, Pragma-dialectics, Rationality, Announcements, Fallacies, Argumentation, tagged Informal Logic, Rationality, Rhetoric, Pragma-dialectics, Argumentation, CEAR, Cogency, argumentation journals, informal logic journals, open access journals, rhetoric jourals, logic journals, free content from journals, 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 [...]
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