Argumentation Theory
Argumentation theory is an interdiscipliniray field which attracts attention from
e.g. philosophers, logicians, computer scientists, linguists, legal scholars and speech communication theorists. Most of the
research in this field is informal. It is one of the sources of inspiration for my own work and occasionally I publish in this field. I wrote a paper
for ISSA-02 on deductivism
and a paper for the Argumentation journal on the relevance of Toulmin's
The Uses of Argument for AI & Law, titled
AI & Law, logic and argument schemes. I also published a chapter on argument schemes in the Festschrift for Douglas Walton. At ISSA-2010 I gave a talk with the best title I ever used: argumentation without arguments :-) (later published in the Argumentation Journal). In a paper for Studies in Logic I sketch my general view on the relation between formal and informal approaches to argumentation.
Organisations, Resources
Workshops and Conferences
Future:
Past:
- Conference on Dialectic in Aristotle's Logic
Groningen (The Netherlands), 2-4 September 2013.
- Workshop on Formal Methods in Argument Reconstruction,
Konstanz (Germany), September 20-21, 2012.
- The 4th Tokyo Conference on Argumentation: The Role of Argumentation in Society.
Tokyo (Japan), August 10-12, 2012.
- Workshop on Bayesian Argumentation,
Lund (Sweden), October 22-23, 2010.
- International Conference on Logic, Argumentation and Critical Thinking ,
Santiago (Chile), October 7-9, 2010.
- Graduate Course on Bayesian Argumentation,
Lund (Sweden), 19-23 April 2010.
- The Promise of Reason: The New Rhetoric after Fifty Years.
The University of Oregon, (USA), May 17-20, 2008.
- Vijfde Symposium Juridische Argumentatie
Rotterdam, (Nederland), 22 juni 2007.
- ISSA Conferences on Argumentation.
Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
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NCA/AFA Summer Argumentation Conferences
Alta, Utah (USA)
1979-2007.
- OSSA Conferences on Argumentation 1995-2009, 2011, 2013. Windsor, Ontario (Canada).
- Symposium on Argument and Computation.
Pitlochry (Scotland), June 26 - July 3, 2000.
Books and journals
Debate and argumentation websites
Researchers
Jim Crosswhite
Frans van Eemeren
Michael Gilbert
David Hitchcock
Douglas Walton
John Woods
Other interesting links