Jan 28th, 2015
A lecture Wednesday will discuss consideration of occupation and environment in understanding breast cancer.
A lecture Wednesday will discuss consideration of occupation and environment in understanding breast cancer.
Philosophy professor Christopher Tindale will suggest a way to prepare the field of informal logic to better deal with narrative and visual arguments in a free public presentation Tuesday, December 16.
“Static and dynamic models of argument” will review the advances informal logic has made to reframe argumentation in ways that fit its everyday uses, says Dr. Tindale, but he says a “static” conception continues to dog researchers.
The Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric presents philosopher Guillaume Beaulac of Yale University on “A Taxonomy for Dual-Process Theories,” Thursday, November 13, at 4 p.m. in room 209, Essex Hall.
“Dual-process theories offer a rich framework to understand how the mind works, but to this day, very few have offered a way to compare how proposed accounts differ beyond the distinction between default-interventionist and parallel-competitive models,” Dr. Beaulac says.
A seminar Thursday will discuss ways to classify research in argumentation and informal logic.
Philosophy professor Douglas Walton will discuss a system for evaluating arguments in a free public lecture Thursday.
The Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric is offering two $1500 graduate student fellowships in the fall 2014 semester.
Windsor Studies in Argumentation has published Ralph Johnson’s essay collection, The Rise of Informal Logic, as its second volume.
A public lecture Tuesday will explore the significance of adaptationist tendencies in evolutionary biology.
Philosopher Leo Groarke will discuss “How To Do Things With(out) Words” a free public lecture Tuesday.
Philosophy professor Hans V. Hansen will consider how arguments can seem better than they are in a free public presentation Wednesday.