1st European Conference on Argumentation
Argumentation
and Reasoned Action
9-12 June 2015, Lisbon, Portugal
The European Conference
on Argumentation (ECA) is a new pan-European initiative aiming to consolidate
and advance various streaks of research into argumentation and reasoning: from
philosophical, linguistic, discourse analytic, cognitive, to computational approaches.
The chief goal of the initiative is to organize on a regular basis a major
conference on argumentation. The first of these conferences will be hosted in
Lisbon by the ArgLab, Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), Universidade Nova de
Lisboa. While based in Europe, ECA involves and further encourages
participation from argumentation scholars all over the world.
CONFIRMED
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS for ECA Lisbon 2015:
• JOHN R. SEARLE (Philosophy, University of California,
Berkeley, USA)
• ISABELA FAIRCLOUGH & NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH (Discourse Analysis, University of
Central Lancashire & University of Lancaster, UK)
• SIMON PARSONS (Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK)
SPECIAL THEME
Argumentation
and Reasoned Action
The primary idea behind
this first edition of the conference is that argumentation and reasoning are
the main vehicles for our decisions and actions. They accompany, indeed
constitute, a variety of significant social practices: from individual
practical reasoning, small group decisions, deliberations of official bodies in
various institutional contexts, to large-scale political and social
deliberations. Argumentation is understood here as a mode of action – and not
just any action, but a reasoned action, comprised of consideration of
reasons (whether they are good or bad). Traditionally, argumentation has been
assigned many distinct functions: epistemic, moral, conversational, etc. The
aim of the conference is to explore how these functions are interrelated with
the practical need for deciding on a course of action. Simply put, our chief
concern is with the role argumentation and reasoning play when the question of
“what to do?” is addressed.
All kinds of approaches
to argumentation and reasoning are welcome: the (informal) logical,
(pragma-)dialectical, rhetorical, but also contributions that examine
argumentation from the perspective of practical reasoning in moral philosophy
and philosophy of action; deliberation in political theory; public policy
analysis; legal decisions in philosophy of law; cognitive study of reasoning
and decisions; models of decision-making in computer science; organisational,
small-group, and interpersonal communication; or discourse analytic methods
examining the linguistic tokens of argumentative practices.
The conference will be
focused on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Practical reasoning and argumentation
- Fallacious arguments
and bad decisions
- Argumentation and decision-making in institutional
(education, health, business) and interpersonal contexts
- Argumentation and deliberation in the public sphere
- Public policy debates and public controversies
- Argumentation in digital media
- Visual arguments as modes of action
- Models of argumentative dialogues
- Argumentation in multi-agent systems
- Legal arguments and legal decisions
- Cognitive mechanisms behind argumentative practices
Submissions from
students and young scholars are encouraged.
DEADLINE for
submission: 1 October
2014
For information: http://ecargument.org
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