OSSA 12
The Twelfth Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
EVIDENCE, PERSUASION & DIVERSITY
University of Windsor – June 3 – 6, 2020
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CFP: OSSA 2020
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, cognitive science, Communication, Connections, Informal Logic, Linguistics, Logic, Pragma-dialectics, Rationality, Rhetoric, tagged Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Derek Allen, Jean Goodwin, OSSA, University of Windsor on January 4, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Second CFP: Topoi Special Issue on Evidence, Expertise and Argumentation in Evidence-Based Medicine
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Communication, Connections, tagged evidence based medicine, expertise, medical argumentation, Topoi special issues on June 18, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Guest Editors: Fabrizio Macagno and Carlo Martini
This special issue will focus on the relationship between argumentation and the critical use of evidence in medical decision-making. In particular, the research question is whether the current concepts and accounts of evidence and expertise are adequate for capturing the subjective, reason-based and argumentative component of evidence-based medical science, as well as the role of experts as mediators and communicators.
CFP: Warsaw Argumentation Week
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Computation, Connections, Informal Logic, Linguistics, Logic, tagged Warsaw Argumentation Week, WAW 2018 on May 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Warsaw Argumentation Week, WAW 2018
6-16 September 2018, Warsaw, Poland
Polish School of Argumentation
http://waw2018.argdiap.pl/
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION IN SEVERAL WAW EVENTS
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The Warsaw Argumentation Week (WAW) is a series of events organised by the Polish Academy of Sciences in collaboration with University of Warsaw, Warsaw Institute of Technology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Bialystok University of Technology, Centre for Formal Ontology, Graduate School for Social Research and several businesses and NGOs. The WAW 2018 consists of eight events: (more…)
CFP: ECA | European Conference on Argumentation
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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Poznań Reasoning Week 2018
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 »
Deadline for submissions: 1 JUNE 2018
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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“Fake News” as Phenomenon and Fallacy
Posted in Argumentation, Connections, Critical Thinking, Discussion, Fallacies, Informal Logic, News, tagged critical thinking and journalism, dark arts, fake news, politifact, Snopes on December 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The Phenomenon
The “fake news” phenomenon plays on highly predictable and prevalent weaknesses in human cognition: confirmation bias, ownership/endowment effects, and belief overkill using messages with high affective valence, usually negative. Emotions of fear, outrage, and suspicion typically are featured, but sometimes positive themes are used too, like appeals to feelings of patriotism or nostalgia for an idealized past. The images selected typically reflect whatever the emotional focus is, or whoever (or whatever, in the case of abstract institutions) is the target of that focus. There is no attempt at truthful communication. Sources are often described rather than named (think pizzagate’s “New York City police detective”, or phrases like “sources close to the Trump family”). Essentially, fake news stories follow the same sort of style as tabloid writing: sensationalistic, unverifiable, and over-the-top claims are made about publicly recognizable figures for money. That’s nothing new. Tabloid journalism has been around since papers started being printed. What’s “new” about fake news is that:
(more…)CFP: “The Philosophy of Argumentation”: a special issue of Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Communication, Connections, Fallacies, Informal Logic, Linguistics, Logic, Rhetoric on September 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Philosophy of Argumentation – An Issue of Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
We invite the submission of papers to an issue of the journal Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/slgr) entitled ‘The Philosophy of Argumentation’. This issue is designed to build on the impact of recent events in argumentation and linguistics in Poland and aims to bring together researchers with a variety of perspectives and backgrounds in a discussion of the philosophical aspects of argumentation theory, and to further enhance the growing reputation of Poland as a centre for study in the field.
The journal issue will be co-edited by Martin Hinton (University of Łódź) and Marcin Koszowy (University of Białystok and Polish Academy of Science).
Topics
A philosophical approach to argument and persuasion may touch on many areas and this list is not designed to be exhaustive, but contributions might discuss:
Unilateral Disarmament in the “War on Science”
Posted in Communication, Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric on September 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Source: Unilateral Disarmament in the “War on Science”
Some scientists perceive themselves as an embattled minority, fending off attacks from a public whose declining trust in science has been manufactured by self-interested adversaries aided by an easily-duped press. This perception is largely unfounded. When scientists communicate to the public from this point of view, they don’t contribute usefully to public deliberations. In fact, they add more toxins to the already polluted science communication environment. There has to be a better way.
Read the rest of the post at Jean’s excellent blog.
CFP: Second Call for ISSA 2018
Posted in Argumentation, CFP, Communication, Computation, Connections, Discourse Analysis, Fallacies, Workshops on September 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 9th ISSA CONFERENCE ON ARGUMENTATION
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:
- Marianne Doury (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)
- Dale Hample (University of Maryland)
- David Hitchcock (McMaster University)
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.
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