RT list: Call for papers: ECA, 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon, 9-12 June 2015

Dear all,

Please find below the call for papers for the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, to be held in Lisbon in June 2015. Although not exclusively devoted to the study of pragmatics, I believe this conference will be of interest to many of you who are interested in or working on argumentation, reasoning, inference, evidentials, etc.

There are three types of submissions:

* short abstracts (meaning short papers, standard in most conferences, 20-25 minute presentation followed by questions)

* extended abstracts (meaning longer papers which have to be sent prior to the conference as they will be assigned a commentator and benefit from a longer time slot, circa 45 min)

* thematic panels / symposia (3-5 speakers for time slots ranging from 90 to 150 mins)

Do not hesitate to get in touch with me should you have any questions. All relevant information is available at http://www.ecargument.org.

All the best,
Steve

ECA Lisbon 2015
1st European Conference on Argumentation
9-12 June 2015, Lisbon, Portugal

"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.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

* 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

TOPICS

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.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

The Programme Committee invites the following types of original submissions: (i) Individual long papers, (ii) Individual regular papers and (iii) Thematic panels/symposia.

All relevant information may be found on http://www.ecargument.org.

Steve Oswald, PhD

English Department, University of Fribourg

Post-Doctoral fellow

Av. de l'Europe 20

http://www.steveoswald.tk<http://www.steveoswald.tk/>

CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

Tel: +41 26 300 79 09

Fax: +41 26 300 97 87
Received on Tue Jun 17 09:34:36 2014