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!)
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Paul Gustav Fischer, “A fire on Kultorvet” c.1900
Eric Schliesser, over at NewAPPS, has an interesting post up regarding a dispute between Marcus Arvan and Jason Brennan over the ethics of promoting the study of philosophy by citing empirical data about the success of philosophy majors. For those outside the discipline of philosophy this may seem a tempest in a teacup, but I think it warrants a closer look. For where one reads ‘philosophy’ in these discussions one could almost, in every case, substitute the name of another humanities discipline with no damage at all to the logic of the arguments in play. In the same way, I’m writing this post as a philosopher, but my guess is that a good deal of what I say here could probably be said just as well (if perhaps more eloquently) by my colleagues in, say, English or Communications. Continue Reading »
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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: Continue Reading »
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CFA: Democracy and Truth Conference, 5-6 October 2013, Belgrade.
The Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia is organizing an international conference “Democracy and Truth”. The aim of the conference will be to create an interdisciplinary forum for exploring the themes of truth and democracy. Special emphasis will be placed on the interplay of epistemic democracy and deliberative democracy. The conference will take place at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade on 5-6 October 2013.
Keynote speaker: Stephan Hartmann (Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München)
Conference Purpose and Overview: Continue Reading »
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The conference Non-Classical Logics. Theory and Applications will be held in Łódź, Poland on 4-6 September 2013.
The Conference devoted to non-classical logics was initially held in Łódź in September 2008 and 2009. Next, the Conference was organized alternately: Toruń 2010, Łódź 2011, Toruń 2012. The conference is aimed to serve as a forum for the effective exchange of novel results and the survey of works in the widely understood non-classical logics and their applications.
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Continue Reading »
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CALL FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
NASSLLI 2014
North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
June 23-27 2014
University of Maryland, College Park
URL: http://www.nasslli2014.com
The sixth NASSLLI (after previous editions at UT Austin, Stanford University, Indiana University and UCLA) will be hosted at the University of Maryland, College Park, June 23-27 2014. The summer school, aimed at graduate students and advanced undergraduates in a wide variety of fields, is loosely modeled on the long-running ESSLLI series in Europe. It will consist of a number of courses and workshops, selected on the basis of proposals. By default, courses and workshops meet for 90 minutes on each of five days.
Proposals are invited for courses or workshops that present interdisciplinary work between the areas of logic, linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, philosophy and artificial intelligence, though work in just one area is within the scope of the summer school if it can be applied in other fields. Examples of possible topics would include e.g. logics for communication, computational semantics, modal logics, game theory and decision theory, dynamic semantics, machine learning, Bayesian cognitive modeling, probabilistic models of language and communication, and automated theorem proving. Continue Reading »
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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 17TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE
16-18 December 2013
Amsterdam
DialDam will be the 17th edition of the SemDial workshop series, which aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. In 2013 the workshop will be hosted by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, and will be collocated with the Amsterdam Colloquium. Continue Reading »
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(Inter)faces of Dialogue: Constructing Identity through Language Use
5 – 8 June 2014 at Transilvania University of Braşov (Romania)
IADA Workshop
The way people talk, dress or behave are types of social codes, important ways of displaying who we are; in other words, they indicate our social identity. Each individual wants to build (him)herself a certain identity. There are multiple identities – some of them are wanted, while some others are unwanted – and a speaker faces a dilemma to choose the best identity for a certain situation and this “browsing” of identities may be achieved through dialogue. In approaching the topic of this workshop, we start from the premise that humans are dialogic beings, users and learners of language in various contexts. While acting and reacting in ever-changing environments (interpersonal or institutional), people try “to achieve more or less effectively certain purposes in dialogic interaction” (Weigand 2008: 3).
The academic interest for social relationships and the way they are organized in dialogues can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century, once Malinowski first suggested in 1923 that humans share “phatic communion”. Scholars in interpersonal communication, social psychology and sociology have ever since highlighted that the concept of ‘identity’ is important for studying the organization of social life. Continue Reading »
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Rhetoric of Evidence
Epistemic Models and Rhetorical Practice in Science, Education, and Culture
March 12-15, 2014
Conference held at: Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais
Hauptstraße 120, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
How can we convey knowledge in an evident way? Which verbal and visual methods can be used for evident presentation of knowledge? How do modern communication media, such as Powerpoint, influence opportunities to create evidence? Within which tradition does the struggle for evident presentations stand? What significance does evidence have in modern natural sciences, in the arts, and in everyday culture? Not only is evidence of rhetorical interest, it is also an important topic for other disciplines. The scope ranges from the ancient demand to use a vivid language by Aristotle, via the empiricism of Locke and Hume, to the current scientific models and simulations. The striving for clarity and logical evidence shapes the current approach to presentation in the natural sciences and influences business presentations as well as presentation in school or the humanities. Furthemore, evidence serves as a method of communicating information and emotion in mass media. Arts and literature can be understood as a struggle for evidence as well: these disciplines developed new strategies to achieve evidence. Thus, evidence can be seen as a culturally established presentation technique, which proves to be very effective. Continue Reading »
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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. Continue Reading »
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