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Job Announcement: Discourseanalysis.net

Posted in Discourse Analysis, Job Openings, tagged , , , on September 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Discourseanalysis.net is hiring a social-media/web coordinator.  More details can be found here.

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Symposium Announcement: The Evolution of Argumentation

Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Connections, Symposium, tagged , , , , , , , on August 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The Evolution of Argumentation: The Sperber-Mercier Theory

5-6 October 2012

University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

Keynote Speaker: HUGO MERCIER, University of Neuchâtel

Panelists:

  • Dr. Mark Aakhus, Communications, Rutgers University
  • Dr. Lori Buchanan, Psychology, University of Windsor
  • Dr. Ian Hacking, Philosophy, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; Permanent Chair in the History and Philosophy of Scientific Concepts, Collège de France.
  • Dr. Burkhard Schafer, Computational Legal Theory, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

Chairs:

  • Dr. Douglas Walton, CRRAR & Assumption Chair in Argumentation Studies, University of Windsor
  • Dr. Steve Patterson, Philosophy, Marygrove College, Detroit.

Sponsored by:
THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN REASONING, ARGUMENTATION, AND RHETORIC (CRRAR)

For more information contact: crrar@uwindsor.ca

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Announcement: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Posted in Announcements, Connections, Contests & Competitions, tagged , , on August 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

From the Mellon/ALCS Fellowship homepage:

ACLS invites applications for the seventh annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. The program encourages timely completion of the Ph.D. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2014. A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program.

The deadline is October 24 for fellowships lasting one year, from Summer 2013 to Summer 2014. Political philosophers and others who work in political theory are particularly encouraged to apply.

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Announcement: RSE Researcher Database

Posted in Announcements, Rhetoric, tagged , , on August 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

From the RSE website, via GRAL:

The database consists of lists of rhetoric scholars and is divided both by nationality and by research interests. The latter features a list of several issues within rhetorical studies, which people have been sorted under. However, the entry for each person in the database also lists his or hers particular interests. We hope that this will make it possible for rhetoricians to find others with the same research interests as themselves, allowing for a strengthening of regional and international cooperation.

The Rhetoric Society of Europe (RSE) is an organization for European researchers and teachers working on the art of rhetoric. The purpose of RSE is to promote and advance the research, study and teaching of rhetoric in Europe, and to facilitate professional cooperation between its members. The society provides a forum where researchers and others involved in rhetorical research and teaching can meet and exchange ideas, information and documentation about their work. Even though it is an important aim of the RSE to stimulate European research and teaching in rhetoric, we welcome members from all parts of the world. The RSE not only wishes to improve and enhance European research, but also to facilitate international cooperation in the research, study and teaching of rhetoric.

You can go directly to the database by clicking here.

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Post Doc Postion in Argumentation and Explanation

Posted in Argumentation, Computation, Job Openings, tagged , , , on May 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The Scrutable Autonomous Systems (SAsSy) project aims to enable the scrutiny of autonomous systems by allowing agents to generate plans through argument and dialogue, while justifying the purpose of each step within the joint plan. Humans or agent can then critique these plans by suggesting and justifying alternative courses of actions as needed, thus driving the planning process. In this way, a scrutable autonomous system can allow for both the collaborative generation of a plan, and for its simultaneous verification.

To achieve its goals, the SAsSy project seeks a post-doctoral researcher who will investigate argumentation and dialogue based approaches to generate, represent and reason about plans, factoring in explicit norms and goals. Argumentation provides a natural way of explaining the rationale for decisions and their justifications, while dialogue will allow for their incremental generation and modification. (more…)

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14th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2012)

Posted in Announcements, Logic, Seminar, tagged , , , , , , , on April 30, 2012| Leave a Comment »

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

NMR 2012

14th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2012)

http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/NMR12/

Co-located with KR 2012, DL 2012, CILC 2012, AI*IA 2012, KiBP 2012

Rome, Italy

June 8-10, 2012

IMPORTANT DATES FOR REGISTRATION

NMR-12 Registration fee includes lunches for three workshop days,
coffee breaks, and one ticket for the social event.

Previous registration at KR2012 allows for a reduced fee (for early
registrations only).

Discounted Early Registration ends:  May 11
Late Registration ends:              May 31
on site registration:                7-10 June

In this year, NMR will share a joint session together with the International
Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2012).
A special fee for joint registration with DL-12 is also available.

Details on NMR 2012 fees are available at
http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/NMR12/registration.html

Information on accommodations can be found at
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~kr12/?p=hotels

STUDENT GRANTS (more…)

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2012 AILACT Prize

Posted in CFP, Contests & Competitions, tagged , , , , on April 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking invites submissions the 2012 AILACT Essay Prize.  Value: $300 U.S. The prize-winning paper will be published in Informal Logic, contingent upon meeting the conditions specified in the prize’s notice, available at http://ailact.mcmaster.ca/. Papers related to the teaching or theory of informal logic or critical thinking, and papers on argumentation theory, will be considered for the prize. Authors need not be members of AILACT. Previously unpublished papers, and papers published or accepted for publication between January 1, 2009 and October 31, 2012, are eligible.  Maximum length: 6,000 words. Please send the paper ready for blind-reviewing. The deadline for receipt of submissions now is October 31, 2011.  For further questions, contact Susana Nuccetelli at sinuccetelli@stcloudstate.edu.

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American Dialectic’s Annual Dissertation Competition

Posted in Announcements, Contests & Competitions, tagged , , , on April 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Knowing that the process of intellectual development begins long before publication, The American Dialectic Charitable Trust provides opportunities for promising individuals whose efforts and contributions might otherwise go unaided or unrecognized.  The Annual Dissertation Contest provides visibility and support for promising new scholars in philosophy and related fields, promoting individuals who continually develop themselves intellectually in such a way that the greater community of thinkers is also served.

The American Dialectic Dissertation Contest is open to all current and recent graduates.  The author of the winning essay will receive $500 and the winning essay will be published in American Dialectic the following term.  Materials are accepted on a rolling basis, but all finalized materials must be recieved no later than October 1st.  For eligibility requirements and contest instructions, please visit:  www.AmericanDialectic.org/Dissertation/

American Dialectic is currently accepting submissions in all areas of philosophy.  If you would like to learn more about  how to submit an article or response to American Dialectic, please visit our submission guidelines page.

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Informal Logic, vol. 32 no.1

Posted in Announcements, Discussion, Informal Logic, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Informal Logic vol. 32 no. 1

The latest edition of Informal Logic  is now available.  Contributing authors to this volume include Lilian Bermejo-Luque , Louise Cummings , Christoph Lumer, Michael Gary Duncan,  David Botting and Ben Hamby.  While there are, as usual, several very interesting articles, of particular interest to readers of RAIL will be Cristián Santibáñez Yáñez’s thorough and well-researched critical notice of the forthcoming book-length treatment of Mercier and Sperber’s argument theory of reasoning.   The arrival of this book will undoubtedly be one of the highest-impact events of recent years on argumentation studies.  If you’ve not become acquainted with it yet, this critical notice is a good place to start.  (The archives here at RAIL aren’t bad either!)

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Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences

Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, Rhetoric, Seminar/Workshop/Program Announcements, tagged , , , , , , on March 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The program for the University of Windsor symposium on Psychology, Emotion and the Human Sciences is now available at http://www.thehumansciences.com/programme/.  Registration should be available in a few days.

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