Speaker's Series May 25

Friday, May 25, 2018 - 15:00

Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation & Rhetoric along with the PhD in Argumentation Studies at the University of Windsor invite you to a talk by

 

Dr. G. Thomas Goodnight

University of Southern California

Dr. G. Thomas Goodnight was recognised in 2006 by the International Society for the Study of Argument for his lifetime contributions to the field of argumentation and rhetoric. He has been named one of the top five scholars in the area of argumentation over the past fifty years. He is currently a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

We are very fortunate to have him visiting us here at the University of Windsor, where he will be presenting the following paper:

“Darwin’s Puzzled Pup: On Antithesis, Affective Display, and Para-Dialectics”

Abstract: Charles Darwin conjectured on human-animal communication by gathering evidence and inference to work out inheritance. He read pictures, photos and drawings against an assortment of observations on pets, zoological visits and travelers’ tales. The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) works as argumentation. Darwin’s strategies are an enduring achievement for the questions they pose, I believe, rather than for the speculative claims that were culled and which now (mis)inform digital platforms. Polly’s puzzlement gives us pause to consider the open-ended possibilities and necessary adjustments of practical reason for living within the Anthropocene.

 

Friday, May 25, 2018

2:00 pm

Toldo, room 204

All are welcome

https://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/2018-05-23/scholar-address-argumentation-audiences

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