{"id":12,"date":"2013-08-25T11:43:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arg.dundee.ac.uk\/IDEAS\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2021-03-29T22:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:25:44","slug":"contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ecargument.org\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"ECA Lisbon 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

1st European Conference on Argumentation: <\/span>Argumentation and Reasoned Action<\/strong>
\n9-12 June 2015<\/strong>, Lisbon, Portugal<\/span><\/p>\n

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Argumentation and Reasoned Action<\/strong>
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\nThe 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 \u2013 and not just any action, but a <\/span>reasoned <\/span>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 \u201cwhat to do?\u201d is addressed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span><\/p>\n

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

JOHN R. SEARLE <\/span><\/strong>
\nPhilosophy, University of California, Berkeley, USA<\/span>
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\nISABELA\u00a0FAIRCLOUGH<\/span> <\/span><\/strong>&<\/span> NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH <\/span><\/strong>
\nDiscourse Analysis, University of Central Lancashire & University of Lancaster, UK<\/span><\/p>\n

SIMON PARSONS<\/span><\/strong>
\nComputer Science, University of Liverpool, UK<\/span><\/p>\n

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TOPICS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The conference will be focused on, <\/span>but not limited to<\/span>, the following topics:<\/span><\/p>\n