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Doctoral Studentships at Neuchâtel

Posted in Communication, Connections, Rationality, Research Projects, tagged , , , , , on November 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »

2 SNF doctoral studentships
In linguistics – cognitive sciences – discourse analysis
Applications are invited for two SNF doctoral students (100%). Candidates will be working on their PhD within the SNF research project “Biased Communication: The Cognitive Pragmatics of Fallacies”. The project is closely connected to the activities and doctoral tuition offered by the CRUS doctoral programme ‘Language & Cognition’ based at the University of Fribourg and the Cognitive Sciences Centre based at the University of Neuchâtel, in Switzerland. Both PhDs will be jointly registered at both institutions (co-tutelle).

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CFP: 4th Iowa State University Summer Symposium on Science Communication

Posted in Argumentation, Communication, Connections, Symposium, tagged , on November 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Fourth Iowa State University Summer Symposium on Science Communication

Normative Aspects of Science Communication

30-31 May, 2014; Ames, IA

Submission deadline:  January 15, 2014

This workshop at Iowa State University continues the discussion of science communication ethics opened in previous events. While the principles of effective communication of science has attracted widespread interest in recent years, attention to normative aspects of the interactions among scientists, professional communicators, and publics has lagged. We invite work from relevant disciplines including communication, rhetoric, philosophy, science and technology studies, and the sciences themselves, on topics such as: (more…)

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Research Participants Wanted: Group Reasoning Outcomes‬

Posted in Connections, Research Projects, tagged , , on September 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »

‪Along with a team of fellow researchers, Vittorio Girotto (University of Venice) is investigating the intuitions people have about the outcomes of group reasoning efforts. Part of his research involves the survey that can be found at this link: ‬

https://sasupenn.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0xLZ2rduJdZ3OFn

‪The survey takes only a few minutes to complete and should be interesting for respondents with experience in argumentation theory, informal logic, or critical thinking. The research team would be most grateful for responses!‬

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8th eColloq on Argumentation

Posted in Announcements, tagged , , on September 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The eColloq on Argumentation is a running, online conference on any and all topics related to argumentation theory. The 8th eColloq on Argumentation will be held on 30 October 2013. The list of presenters and discussants is now being put together.  Those interested in giving a paper or in joining as discussants are encouraged to visit the eColloq Website.

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New Issue: Informal Logic

Posted in Announcements, tagged , , , , , on September 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

As if a new issue of Cogency wasn’t enough to keep us all engrossed in our reading, there is a new issue of Informal Logic out as well. Hilde van Belle’s, “Less Ado, More Done: Verbal and Visual Antithesis in the Media” offers an excellent a contributions both to the worthy effort to explain the idea of antithesis in Aristotle’s rhetorical framework (per Fahnestock) and to the ongoing discussion about multi-modal arguments. It is well worth the time of anyone interested in either discussion.  Though quite a different paper, “The Dialogical Force of Implicit Premises: Presumptions in Enthymemes”, by Fabrizio Macagno and Giovanni Damele is also a very thorough and fascinating treatment of its topic. Haven’t gotten to the other papers yet, but these two suggest a very strong issue of IL indeed.

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New Issue of Cogency

Posted in Announcements, tagged , , , , , , on September 15, 2013| 1 Comment »

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As of a few weeks ago the latest issue of Cogency has been released. The issue contains a number of interesting articles, many of which bear thematic connections to the last OSSA conference back in May.  Of these I recommend two in particular: Dan Cohen’s “Skepticism and Argumentative Virtues“, and Harvey Siegel’s “Argumentation and the Epistemology of Disagreement”. Those that had the good fortune to be at Harvey Siegel’s talk at OSSA on the topic of the latter article will remember an interesting and insightful discussion that brought together recent literature in epistemology and the corpus within argumentation theory on Fogelin’s theory of deep disagreement. Compressed as it was, the presentation hit every major point in the discussion so well that I wound up abandoning a project on the same topic. (To paraphrase Kenny Rogers, you gotta know when to fold ’em!)  Dan Cohen’s paper in this issue of Cogency brings East Asian philosophy to bear on the themes of his keynote address at OSSA 10. Whether you happened to agree with his remarks there or in this article or not, I’m confident in saying that I think you’ll find it harder to find a more interesting paper before year’s end.

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Recent Updates to the Site

Posted in About RAIL, Announcements, CFP, Feedback & Suggestions on June 6, 2013| Leave a Comment »

In the wake of the recent OSSA conference (which was great–thanks again to all the folks in Windsor who made it happen!) I’ve made a couple of updates here at RAIL. (more…)

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Submissions Open for 2013 AILACT Essay Prize

Posted in Contests, Critical Thinking, Fallacies, Informal Logic, tagged , on June 5, 2013| 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 2013 AILACT Essay Prize. This will be the ninth year in which the prize has been offered.

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Research Survey: Cross-Cultural Argumentation Practices

Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Connections, tagged , , on June 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Ioana Cionea, of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, United States is currently working on a research project aimed at learning more about the way people from different cultures argue.

Prof. Cionea is currently recruiting participants to complete an online questionnaire. Respondents would have to provide basic demographic information (such as sex, age, occupation, but no identifiable information such as name or email address), and answer some open-ended questions (for example, what they usually argue about, with whom, and how often), and then answer a few questions in which they enter a number to indicate whether they agree or disagree with several statements presented. Completing all these questions should take approximately 20-30 minutes.  (more…)

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Call for Participation: W3C Argumentation Community

Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Computation, Connections, tagged , on June 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The Argumentation Community Group of the W3C seeks to facilitate and to promote the use of the Web for all forms of argumentation. The group will discuss and design both argumentation representation formats and systems. The group will discuss both argumentation theory and technical discussion topics. The group is working on a set of current projects, requisite technologies, and has upcoming projects planned, formats and ontologies.

This is a call for participation; individuals interested in the aforementioned topics or presenting new topics for discussion are welcomed to participate and to contribute. The group’s mailing list is available at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-argumentation/.

For more information, please contact the group’s chair Adam Sobieski.

http://www.w3.org/community/argumentation/

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