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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
OSSA 2011: Proposed Twitter Backchannel
Posted in Announcements, Connections, Discussion, tagged Argumentation, conference backchannel, CRRAR, fallacies, Formal Dialectic, Informal Logic, Normative Pragmatics, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, OSSA 2011, Rhetoric, Twitter, University of Windsor on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As many in the argumentation studies community know next week is OSSA 9, one of the bigger events on our calendars. The conference theme this go around is “Argumentation, Cognition and Community”. Having had a look at the schedule I think this promises to be an interesting conference. Many leading scholars in argumentation, informal logic, [...]
Informal Logic Vol. 31, No.1
Posted in Announcements, Informal Logic, tagged absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, Bayesianism, dialogue based reasoning, fallacies, functionalism in argument, Hitchcock, Informal Logic, informal logic journals, Macagno, Navarro, Patterson, philosophy of argument, Stephens, Walton on March 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As part of the mission of RAIL is to keep readers informed of new publications, journals, and articles of interest, I’ve arranged with the editors to post announcements here when new issues of Informal Logic become available. If you’d like to have your informal logic/argumentation-themed journal, or special issue similarly featured here by all means [...]
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Informal Logic on C. L. Hamblin and Argumentation Theory
Posted in CFP, tagged Hamblin, Informal Logic on November 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
C.L. Hamblin and Argumentation Theory A special issue of Informal Logic Guest editors: Douglas N. Walton and Ralph H. Johnson Possible topics include, but are not restricted to: • Hamblin’s views on logic • Hamblin’s views on fallacies • Hamblin’s view on argument • Hamblin’s views on formal dialectic Papers should be prepared for blind [...]
2010 AILACT Essay Prize: Call for Submissions
Posted in CFP, tagged AILACT, AILACT Essay Prize, Informal Logic on September 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Essay Prize in Informal Logic/Critical Thinking/Argumentation Theory The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) invites submissions for the 2010 AILACT Essay Prize. This will be the sixth year in which the prize has been offered. ● Value: $300 U.S. ● The prize-winning paper will be considered for publication in Informal Logic upon the conditions [...]
Irrationality and the Critical Thinking Classroom
Posted in Connections, Rationality, Teaching, tagged critical thinking, heuristics and biases, Informal Logic, Rationality, Teaching on January 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Thinking about the last post got me wondering if anyone besides myself regularly covers forms of irrationality that are studied in the social sciences in their Critical Thinking or Informal Logic classes. It seems to me to be important for students to know about things like the endowment effect, the bandwagon effect, confirmation bias, framing [...]
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