27.2807, Calls: Cog Sci, Computational Ling, Discourse Analysis, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 27.2807, Calls: Cog Sci, Computational Ling, Discourse Analysis, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:32:04
From: Steve Oswald [steve.oswald at unifr.ch]
Subject: 2nd European Conference on Argumentation

Full Title: 2nd European Conference on Argumentation 
Short Title: ECA2017 

Date: 20-Jun-2017 - 23-Jun-2017
Location: Fribourg, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Steve Oswald
Meeting Email: ecafribourg2017 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.ecargument.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

The European Conference on Argumentation (ECA) is a pan-European biennial
initiative aiming to consolidate and advance various strands of research on
argumentation and reasoning by gathering scholars from a range of disciplines.
After a successful 1st edition held in Lisbon in 2015, ECA will be hosted in
2017 by the Department of English at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
While based in Europe, ECA involves and encourages participation from
argumentation scholars all over the world.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Ulrike HAHN, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Sally JACKSON, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Johan VAN BENTHEM, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Deirdre WILSON, University College London, UK & University of Oslo, Norway

Call for Papers: 

Special Theme: Argumentation and inference

In addition to welcoming submissions linked to argumentation studies in
general, each ECA edition has a special theme. While the 1st edition of ECA
was devoted to exploring the relationship between argumentation and the
decisions that follow from it, the 2017 Fribourg edition will focus on the
cognitive processes involved in argumentation, with a clear focus on inference
as one of the key features of the argumentative process. Argumentation studies
have increasingly expanded over the last decades with a clear opening towards
cognitive science, and we accordingly believe that the time is ripe to ground
a discussion in the community around the notion of inference, along its
formal, social and cognitive dimensions. The overarching questions the
conference theme will be concerned with are therefore the following: How does
the study of argumentation connect with the notion of inference and how, as a
discipline, does it connect with the disciplines involved in the study of the
cognitive features of inference? Granting, of course, that we take
argumentation to be the verbal and social manifestation of inferential
processes, we are particularly seeking contributions focusing on the ins and
outs of (i) how reasoning, but more generally inference, influences and
constrains argument production and (ii) which (and how) inferential processes
are involved in argument reception, thus covering cognitive tasks such as
understanding and accepting.
To foster this discussion, the conference seeks to attract scholars in
argumentation coming from a range of different traditions, including (but not
limited to) philosophy, psychology, linguistics, informal logic, speech
communication, pragma-dialectics, epistemic approaches, rhetoric, dialectics,
logic, and computational approaches. The lines of inquiry promoted for ECA
2017 in Fribourg are the following, but this indicative list is neither
exhaustive nor limitative:

-inferential processes in argument production 
-cognitive states as motivations to argue
-typology of argumentative inferences
-pedagogy and inference in critical thinking
-topoi and argument schemes
-rhetorical strategies
-qualifiers
-inference and persuasion
-types of inference linked to types of arguments
-political argumentation
-comprehension and acceptance
-stylistic effects
-understanding and believing
-inferences linked to figures of speech
-fallacies and cognitive biases in argumentation
-inference in argumentative decision-making
-formal models of inference
-quality of deliberation
-computational models of inference
-developmental views on inference and argumentation
-automatic recognition of argumentative inferences
-reflective and intuitive inference in argumentation
-the relationship between norms and inference
-relationships between culture (and social context)
-social cognition and argumentation
-inference in argumentative contexts

For more information, visit: http://ecargument.org/?p=832

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