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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Rhetoric’
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 »
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, [...]
Sexism and the Idea of the “Great Speech”: The Guardian’s Classicist on Rhetoric
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, tagged great oratory, great speech, Mary Beard, patriarchy, Rhetoric, sexism, the Guardian, The King's Speech, woman orators, women's history on February 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Many in the field of rhetoric, I’ll wager, are happy to see an article about their discipline at all in a major newspaper like the Guardian. Being a philosopher myself I sympathize with the sort of small-town-ish “Hey! They’re talking about US!!” feeling engendered by articles like Mary Beard’s What makes a great speech? The [...]
Call for Nominations: 2011 Kairos Awards
Posted in Announcements, Teaching, tagged academic blogs, awards, computers and writing conference, Kairos, kairosnews, Rhetoric, webtexts on February 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Kairos currently presents three annual awards: The Kairos Best Webtext Awards for the best academic webtext published in the previous academic year (the webtext does not have to be published in Kairos). The John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award (formerly Kairos Best Academic Weblog Award) for an outstanding blog devoted largely to academic pursuits. The [...]
The Validating Experience of Extremity: Esquire on Roger Ailes
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, tagged Esquire Magazine, Fox News, political discourse, pundits, Rhetoric, Roger Ailes, television on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tom Junod’s remarkable piece on Fox News mogul Roger Ailes in Esquire magazine is well worth your time anyway, but for rhetoricians and students of political argument it’s pure gold–a look inside the head of the man who is largely responsible for the shape of American political discourse. It’s a long article but it pays [...]
Defense Against the Dark Arts
Posted in Connections, News, Teaching, tagged critical thinking, dark arts, Jody McIntyre, journalism ethics, mass media, Rhetoric on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The folks over at the blog Less Wrong use the term ‘dark arts’ to refer to the usage of knowledge about heuristics and biases, fallacies, and human rationality generally in a manipulative, destructive or otherwise sinister way. A recent post there focuses on this manner of using presuppositions: An excellent way of doing this is [...]
Call for Papers: Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate, and the Pedagogy of Empowerment
Posted in CFP, tagged call for papers, Rhetoric, thinking and speaking a better world, University of Maribor on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Third International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment THINKING AND SPEAKING A BETTER WORLD October 22, 23, 24, 2010, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia The Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia (Oddelek za filozofijo, Filozofska fakulteta, Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenija), World Debate Institute (University of [...]
Is Punditry Ethical?
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, tagged Deep Disagreement, journalism, politics, pundits, Rhetoric on July 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
An interesting distinction is made by Andrew Cline in this recent post on his rhetoric and journalism blog, Rhetorica, between “punditry” and “opinion journalism”. According to Cline, opinion journalism is reporting informed by or explicitly written from a particular political perspective. It includes acting as a “custodian of fact” and observing a “discipline of verification”. [...]
Rhetoric and Responsibility
Posted in Discussion, News, Rhetoric, tagged Bill O'reilly, free speech, moral responsibility, political rhetoric, Rhetoric, talk radio on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is common knowledge that political extremism is on the rise in the U.S.. I was listening to a radio broadcast in this series this morning, and the question came up of whether or not talk radio and television personalities who play to political extremes are morally responsible for the acts that some of their [...]
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