Student Fellows

Laura Benacquista

Laura is a second year Master’s in Philosophy student at the University of Windsor. She spent the fall term of 2011 as a visiting researcher at the department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam. During this time she intensively studied the pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation theory.

As a CRRAR fellow, Laura intend to explore the practical values of sophistic argumentation in comparison to those of pragma-dialectics. Her research for CRRAR will inform her major paper on this topic, which will be completed and defended this summer. In the fall Laura intend to explore her broader philosophical interest in phenomenological hermeneutics at the Doctoral level.