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Cogency vol. 3 no.1 Now Available
RAIL is happy to announce the appearance of the latest issue of the journal Cogency! Click on the image to the right to view the table of contents for this issue. The articles named therein make me...
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Philosophy matters (for critical thinking)
A new article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the decline of philosophy in the academy stresses again (see my previous post) the importance of philosophy in providing critical thinking...
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Ad feminam
Rush Limbaugh’s recent dismissal of Sandra Fluke as a “slut” and a “prostitute” reminds me of how much more vulnerable women are than men to the abusive ad hominem. There is a a greater number of...
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Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences
The program for the University of Windsor symposium on Psychology, Emotion and the Human Sciences is now available at http://www.thehumansciences.com/programme/. Registration should be available in a...
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Informal Logic, vol. 32 no.1
Informal Logic vol. 32 no. 1 The latest edition of Informal Logic is now available. Contributing authors to this volume include Lilian Bermejo-Luque , Louise Cummings , Christoph Lumer, Michael Gary...
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Ad baculum and freedom of speech
Note: As of this posting, RAIL has adopted the convention of posting the author’s name and institutional affiliation at the bottom of each article. What do patterns of abusive argumentation reveal?...
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Dr. Trudy Govier Receives 2012 CAFA Distinguished Academic Award
Those acquainted with informal logic and argumentation will no doubt recognize Trudy Govier as one of the pioneers in the field. RAIL is happy to report that her efforts have been recognized outside...
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CFP: AILACT Session at APA Eastern
CALL for PAPERS ASSOCIATION for INFORMAL LOGIC and CRITICAL THINKING [AILACT] AILACT will convene a session of paper presentations and discussion during the APA Eastern Division Meeting in Atlanta, GA...
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CRRAR 4th Summer Institute on Argumentation
4th Summer Institute On Argumentation:- Multi‐Modal Arguments: Making sense of images (and other non‐verbal content) in Argument May 27-31, 2013 Can works of art, films, virtual realities and other...
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Submissions Open for 2013 AILACT Essay Prize
Essay Prize in Informal Logic/Critical Thinking/Argumentation Theory The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) invites submissions for the 2013 AILACT Essay Prize. This will be...
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10th eColloq on Argumentation
10th eColloq on Argumentation Monday FEB 24, 2014 4 pm CET (Central European Time, e.g., Rome, Berlin, Stockholm) http://ecolloq.wordpress.com/ PROGRAM 4.00-4.10 Connect, Welcome 4.10-4:35 Gregor...
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Informal Logic Vol. 34 No. 2 Now Available
Informal Logic Vol 34, No 2 (2014) Table of Contents Articles Rhetoric, Dialectic and Logic: The Wild-Goose Chase for an Essential Distinction (152-166), Charlotte Jørgensen The Authority of Citations...
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CFP: Fourth International Congress on Argumentation and Critical Thinking
23-26 September, 2015 Diego Portales Univeristy, Santiago, Chile Conference Website: http://www.cear-lact.udp.cl/index.htm About the Conference The Fourth International Conference on Argumentation,...
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CFP: Special Issue of Argumentation and Advocacy
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON TWENTY YEARS OF VISUAL ARGUMENT Argumentation and Advocacy invites submissions for a special anniversary issue on visual argument titled “Twenty Years of Visual...
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Call for Proposals: AILACT Group Session at Central APA, 2015
WANTED: Ideas for a paper or a panel discussion or a book review session for the AILACT Group Session at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, February 18-21, 2015, at...
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OSSA Proceedings Digital Archive
Just in case you’ve not yet heard about this, the folks in Windsor have done us all a great service. The proceedings of all OSSA conferences from the very first to the most recent are now available...
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Now Available: Informal Logic vol. 34, no. 4
Informal Logic vol. 31 no. 4 Informal Logic vol. 34, no. 4 is up at the journal’s homepage. Contents Critical Thinking Education and Debiasing (341-363), Guillaume Beaulac & Tim Kenyon John Locke...
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CFP: OSSA 11
Call for Proposals Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias May 18-21, 2016 University of Windsor The OSSA Organizing Committee invites proposals for...
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Informal Logic Vol. 35, No.2 is now available
Vol 35, No 2 (2015) Articles David Godden. Argumentation, rationality, and psychology of reasoning (135-167) Cristián Santibáñez, What is the Purpose of Arguing? On Value, Function and Normativity in...
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Call for Participants: Worskhops in Informal Logic and Linguisitics
WILL – Workshops in Informal Logic and Linguistics 23rd April 2016 University of Łódź, Poland http://filologia.uni.lodz.pl/WILL/ Call for Participants: The Department of English and General Linguistics...
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