Thursday, January 29, 2009

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM ARGUPOLIS HAS BEEN INAUGURATED


The inauguration module of the doctoral program Argupolis (http://www.argupolis.net/) has been held in Lugano from January 8 to 20, 2009. More than 20 PhD students from Switzerland, from the Netherlands and from other countries have taken part in the courses and in the interdisciplinary dialogue on argumentation in context.

Four courses were part of this inauguration module: “Context, dialogue and cognition” held by Michèle Grossen (University of Lausanne); “Argumentation as a situated practice” held by NathalieMuller-Mirza (University of Lausanne); the first part of “Fundamentals of argumentation theory” taught by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen (University of Amsterdam); and “Instruments of semantic analysis” by Eddo Rigotti and Andrea Rocci (Università della Svizzera italiana). PhD students participated in cross-tutoring and discussions.

On the first day, the Argupolis doctoral program was opened by a welcome speech by the President of the Università della Svizzera italiana, Piero Martinoli.

The courses were held in Lugano at the Hotel Colorado.