Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Contests & Competitions, Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, tagged AILACT Essay Prize on June 21, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Submissions are invited for the 2018 AILACT Essay Prize in informal logic/critical thinking/argumentation theory. This will be the 14th year in which the prize ($500 U.S.) has been offered. Submissions are due by September 1, 2018. For details, see below. The details are also available at: https://ailact.wordpress.com and in the attached flyer.
Eligibility Requirements
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Posted in cognitive science, Critical Thinking, Research Projects, tagged applied episemology, CREATE, IARPA on June 6, 2018| Leave a Comment »
IARPA is currently recruiting thousands of participants to test the analytic methods developed for its CREATE (Crowdsourcing Evidence, Argumentation, Thinking and Evaluation) program. IARPA is the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. CREATE is a multi-million-dollar, multi-year R&D effort to improve the core process of intelligence analysis: making well-reasoned inferences from incomplete information. If effective, CREATE analytic tools could greatly assist many other disciplines that depend on good reasoning, including, law, medicine, and public policy. CREATE is a basic research program; it does not involve any security restrictions, and its research outputs will be freely available.
Participating might be interesting for anyone working in applied epistemology, critical thinking, informal reasoning, or probabilistic reasoning. It might also be helpful for students wishing to develop their analytical reasoning skills.
For more information see: Frequently Asked Questions about CREATE
Here is the sign-up page: join.createbetterreasoning.com
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Communication, Connections, Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, Summer School, tagged dissent, ECA, European Conference on Argumentation, University of Groningen on May 11, 2018| Leave a Comment »
1st CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd European Conference on Argumentation – ECA 2019
Reason to Dissent
Monday, June 24 – Thursday, June 27 2019, Groningen, The Netherlands
The European Conference on Argumentation (ECA) is a pan-European biennial initiative aiming to consolidate and advance research on argumentation. After two successful editions, in Lisbon in 2015 and in Fribourg in 2017, ECA will be hosted in 2019 by the University of Groningen, in Groningen, The Netherlands.
We aim to attract scholars on argumentation world-wide from various disciplines, dealing with various themes and adopting various approaches.
More details, including deadlines and proposal submission guidelines can be found in the attached CFP: 1st-CALL-FOR-PAPERS.
For more information see the conference website: ECA | European Conference on Argumentation, join the ECA group on Facebook or email ecargument2019@rug.nl.
Please note that as in previous years there will also be a Summer School in Argumentation prior to the conference!
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Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, CFP, cognitive science, Computation, Connections, Logic, Rationality, tagged Poznan Reasoning Week, reasoning research, refutation systems on March 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »
https://poznanreasoningweek.wordpress.com/
Poznań Reasoning Week 2018, which is the third edition of PRW, consists of three conferences, aimed at bringing together experts whose research offers a broad range of perspectives on systematic analyses of reasoning processes and their formal modelling. PRW 2018 is co-organised by the Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, and Institute of Philosophy, University of Zielona Góra, Poland.
In 2018 we will address:
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Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Communication, Computation, Connections, Discourse Analysis, Fallacies, Workshops on September 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
From July 3 to July 6, 2018, the 9th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) will be held at the University of Amsterdam. The aim of the conference is to draw together scholars from a variety of disciplines that are working in the field of argumentation theory.
The keynote speakers are:
The planning committee of the 9th ISSA Conference invites presentations of original, non-published work on argumentation. Argumentation theorists, (informal) logicians, discourse analysts, communication scholars, rhetoricians, legal scholars, AI scholars, and other scholars involved in the study of argumentation are all encouraged to take part.
Important dates
Posted in Argumentation, Computation, Connections, Job Openings, Uncategorized, tagged ARG-tech, argument mining, Argumentation jobs on January 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Vacancy for Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader
£34,576 to £55,389 Full Time, Permanent. Closing Date: 27 February 2016
The University of Dundee’s School of Science & Engineering is advertising several permanent posts including one covering the Centre for Argument Technology. We are particularly keen to receive applications from candidates in Computational Linguistics to expand the group’s research in Argument Mining (see argmining2016.arg.tech and arg.tech/am), but welcome applications in all areas of the overlap between argumentation and artificial intelligence. A strong publication profile is essential, and for more senior appointments, so is a track record of funding success.
For further information about the Centre for Argument Technology, please see arg.tech or contact Prof. Chris Reed; for more information about the position, see arg.tech/lecturer.
More information can be found at the ARG-tech website for the opening.
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Connections, Pragma-dialectics, tagged Argumentation Behaviors, Cogency, strategic maneuvering, thought experiments on November 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Hyperlinked titles indicate that the article is currently available on an open access basis.
“Bolivia’s Strategic Maneuvering on its claims for a fully sovereign access to the sea”, Marjorie Gallardo Castañeda, Centro de Estudios Estratégicos de la Academia de Guerra del Ejército de Chile, Santiago, Chile
“Studying Argumentation Behaviour”, Hans V. Hansen, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
“Argumentos e inferencias: teoría de la argumentación y psicología del razonamiento”, Hubert Marraud, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, España
“Argumentative moves in a thought experiment”, Eugen OctavPopa, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Book Reviews
Douglas Walton, Burden of Proof, Presumption and Argumentation Cambridge University Press, 2014, 318 pp., US$ 85.00 (hc) ISBN 978-1-107- 04662-7, US$32.99 (pbk) ISBN 978-1-107-67882-8, US$26.00 (e-bk) ISBN 978- 1-139-95048-0.
Reviewed by David Godden, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, Michigan, United States
Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Formal Languages in Logic: A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 275 pp., $26.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-107-46031-7.
Reviewed by David Hitchcock, Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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