Friday, February 13, 2009

Krabbe's course details are online

COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
Erik Krabbe's course (Logic and Formal Dialectic) description is online on www.argupolis.net. The description also includes the pre-readings indications

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Publications - announcement

Marcelo Dascal (Tel Aviv University) suggested us some relevant readings:



http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CVS%206



http://www.springer.com/philosophy/history+of+philosophy/book/978-1-4020-8190-3




Recently, an international colloquium was held at the University of Tel Aviv, where the two volumes on Leibniz were presented and discussed.





Monday, February 2, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 7th ISSA CONFERENCE

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 7th ISSA CONFERENCE

From June 29 to July 2, 2010, the 7th Conference on Argumentation 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:

Maurice Finocchiaro (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

James Klumpp (University of Maryland)

James Freeman (Hunter College, City University of New York).

The planning committee of the 7th ISSA Conference invites presentations of original,

non-published work on argumentation. Argumentation theorists, (informal) logicians, discourse analysts, communication scholars, rhetoricians, legal scholars, and other scholars involved in the study of argumentation are all encouraged to take part.

Anyone who wishes to present a paper can submit an abstract in English to the planning committee by sending an e-mail attachment to issa-fgw@uva.nl. Abstracts (ca. 250 words), prepared for blind refereeing, must be submitted in Word no later than November 1, 2009. All abstracts should be accompanied by a separate file in which the author indicates his/her research interests and provides a list of key publications on argumentation. Please include your surname and "issa abstract" in the subject entry of your e-mail message.

Among the conference themes are:


Argument schemes

Argumentation structures

Fallacies

Theoretical issues

Argumentative strategies

Argumentation and stylistics

Ethos and pathos in argumentation

Analysis of controversies

Argumentation in debate

Persuasion research

Interpersonal argumentation

Visual argumentation

Religious argumentation

Argumentation and epistemology

Argumentation in the media

Argumentation in a medical context

Argumentation in a legal context

Argumentation in a political context


Further information on the 7th ISSA Conference is available at: http://www.hum.uva.nl/issa. The address of the planning committee is: Frans H. van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam, Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, email: issa-fgw@uva.nl.