Posted in Argumentation, Grants, Logic, tagged University of Coimbra on September 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Applications are now open for a postdoctoral research grant at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra (Portugal).
Core research into the topic “The ties between logic and argumentation” under the research group Teaching Logic and Argumention.
For further information please go to:
http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=38841
or contact
Prof. Henrique Jales Ribeiro
tla.lif.fct@gmail.com
(Thanks to Frank Zenker for the heads up on this one!)
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, tagged formal and quantitative models of legal reasoning, legal argumentation, legal communication, media and law on August 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »
ARGUMENTATION 2013 – the Third International Conference on Alternative Methods of Argumentation in Law
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic – November 8, 2013
www.argumentation2013.wordpress.com
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
The main aim of the ARGUMENTATION 2013 conference is to bring together legal practitioners and people from academia to discuss the topics related to different approaches and techniques employed in legal argumentation. One of the core characteristics of the conference is its interdisciplinarity. Thus the perspective of law should be connected to the problems from philosophy, logic, sociology, computer science, artistic disciplines, etc.
The list of areas / topics includes, but is not limited to: (more…)
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Connections, tagged cross-cultural argumentation, empirical research on argumentation, Ioana Cionea 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.
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Computation, Connections, tagged argumentation groups, W3C 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.
Posted in Announcements, Argumentation, Computation, Connections, tagged ARG Dundee, dispute mediation, PhD positions in argumentation on April 29, 2013| 1 Comment »
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in argumentation for
dispute mediation at the University of Dundee, funded by The Leverhulme
Trust.
The studentship forms part of a project which aims to develop a
theoretical foundation to underpin practical tools for
argument-supported dispute mediation. The successful applicant will have
the freedom to explore an area that is relevant to both the project and
their own research interests including, but not limited to:
philosophical and/or computational models of dialogue and argument;
mediation theory and practice; computational linguistics. The
studentship will be held in the Argumentation Research Group in the
School of Computing at the University of Dundee. (more…)
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, tagged dialectic, pragmatics, speech acts, Studies in Logic Grammar and Rhetoric on April 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Pragmatics and Dialectics of Argument
The Special Issue of the Journal “Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric”
K. Budzynska, F. van Eemeren & M. Koszowy (Eds.)
This special issue on “Pragmatics and Dialectics of Argument” is the third of a series of special issues dedicated to argumentation in the journal “Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric” (SLGR). The previous two issues were dedicated to major research strands in the philosophy of argument (vol. 29, 2009; in its introduction to “Informal Logic”, the “Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy” says of SLGR that it has “published important special issue on the field”), and the computational approaches to argumentation (vol. 36, 2011). The volume will be built around two chapters concerning the most general and important topics in pragmatics and dialectics of argument: “Speech Acts and Argument” (Ch. I), and “Argumentation in a Dialogue” (Ch. II).
Confirmed contributors (more…)
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Computation, Connections, tagged AI, argument and computation, logic on April 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Call for Papers
The Second International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2013) will be co-located with IJCAI 2013 in Beijing, and builds on the success of TAFA 2011 (co-located with IJCAI 2011). The workshop is inspired by the recent rapid growth of interest in formal models of argumentation and their application in diverse sub-fields and domains of application of Artificial Intelligence. TAFA 2013 aims to further foster uptake of argumentation as a viable AI paradigm with wide ranging application by providing a forum for further development of existing ideas and for the initiation of new and innovative collaborations.
TAFA 2013 therefore encourages submission of papers on formal theoretical models of argumentation and their application in (sub-fields of) AI, and on the evaluation of models of argumentation, both theoretical (in terms of formal properties) and practical (in concretely developed applications). We particularly encourage work on theories and applications developed through inter-disciplinary collaborations. The workshop will also include a demonstration session. (more…)
Posted in Argumentation, Connections, Pragma-dialectics, Rhetoric, Workshops, tagged RSA summer institute on April 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The Institute will commence with five Seminars running from Monday to Friday, June 3-7, culminating in a plenary luncheon. After lunch on the 7th, twenty Workshops begin and will run to midday on Sunday, June 9th.
Registration for the 2013 RSA Summer Institute in Lawrence, KS is open! If you have been accepted into a Workshop or a Seminar (or if you are a session leader), it’s time to register. To do so, please visit http://www.continuinged.ku.edu/programs/rhetoric-society/. If you are a session leader or a graduate student, you will need a special code to receive the appropriate discounts. You should have received this code already. If you are not a session leader or a graduate student, you do not need a code to register. The Registration deadline is April 1, 2013.
Related news: Information on Lodging for the Institute can be found here:http://rhetoricsociety.org/aws/RSA/pt/sp/institute_lodging.
Seminar leaders:
David Zarefsky, Northwestern University
Robert C. Rowland, University of Kansas
Jean Goodwin, Iowa State University
Jeanne Fahnestock, University of Maryland
Frans H. van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam
Argumentation is the study of how people justify their acts, beliefs, attitudes, and values, and influence the thought and actions of others, by providing good reasons for the claims they make. This subfield includes both descriptive study (what do people consider to be good reasons and what are they doing when they offer what they take to be justifications?) and normative investigation (under what circumstances should claims be considered justified?). It addressesboth argumentation in general and argumentation in specific contexts such as law, business,science, religion, and public affairs. (more…)
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Rhetoric, tagged ArgDiaP, John Searle, pragmatics, speech acts on April 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The aim of this meeting is to discuss the current research strands of speech act theory – one of the most prominent philosophical traditions which strongly influenced the study of communication and argumentation in the 20th century. The foundations of speech act theory were laid by John R. Searle who is widely recognised for his contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and social philosophy. Searle received his degrees from the University of Wisconsin (1949-52) and Oxford University (1952-59, as a Rhodes Scholar). For over 50 years he has been working at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently Slusser Professor of Philosophy. In his book Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge University Press, 1969), which is the most outstanding classical position in the field, Searle synthesized the ideas of such philosophers as Austin and Wittgenstein, and gave his original account of speech acts.
Speech act theory finds many interdisciplinary applications. Amongst the most important in formal linguistics is Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) by Nicholas Asher (Toulouse) and Alex Lascarides (Edinburgh) which combines ideas from dynamic semantics, common-sense reasoning and speech act theory (Logics of Conversation, Cambridge University Press, 2003). SDRT proposes to treat speech acts as relations between utterances. As a result, it allows to formally model a wide range of communicative phenomena where semantics and pragmatics interact in complex ways, such as: nominal anaphora, lexical sense modulations in context, bridging inferences, presuppositions, metaphor, questions and responses, imperatives, non-sentential fragments, indirect speech acts, grounding, non-cooperative conversation.
Special guest
Other invited speakers (more…)
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Computation, Connections, tagged artificial intelligence, CLIMA XIV, computational models of argument, LPNMR 13, multi-agent systems on April 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
First CFP: Argumentation Technologies@CLIMA XIV
First Call for Papers
Special Session on Argumentation Technologies
CLIMA XIV – 14th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXIV/
Corunna, Spain, September 16-17, 2013.
Co-located with LPNMR’13.
Submission deadline: June 10th (abstracts June 6th).
Proceedings: LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop).
JLC Special Issue: Selected extended papers will be published in a
Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation.
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Argumentation is an important and exciting topic in Artificial Intelligence, where uses of argumentation have increased in recent years, throughout a variety of subdisciplines. Research activities range from theory to applications. The CLIMA XIV Special Session on Argumentation Technologies is intended to be a forum to discuss concepts, theories, methodologies, and applications of computational models of argumentation.
We invite submissions related to (but not limited to) one or more of the following topics: (more…)
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