The Summer School aims to provide attendees with a solid foundation in computational and linguistic aspects of argumentation and the emerging connections between the two. Furthermore, attendees will gain experience in using various tools for argument analysis and processing.
The School is being held in the days before the COMMA 2014 conference in Pitlochry (http://comma2014.arg.dundee.ac.uk) and will include tutorials from the conference’s invited speakers, as well as other leading academics in computational approaches to argumentation and linguistics.
In the last week of August 2014 (25 to 29), the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen will be hosting TWO co-located summer schools with a common theme, Epistemology and Cognition. One of them will focus on contemporary debates on these topics, while the other will adopt a historical perspective. Below is is the lineup of keynote speakers (common to both summer schools) and tutorials for each of them.
M-Phi: Summer Schools on Epistemology and Cognition in Groningen.
Can works of art, films, virtual realities and other kinds of non-verbal content operate as arguments?
Why have some objected to this suggestion? What can we learn from their objections?
How can the various theoretical perspectives that make up argumentation theory, such as informal logic, rhetoric, dialectics, dialogue theory, and discourse analysis, account for multi-modal arguments?
How can we construct a comprehensive theory of argument that makes room for, explains, and allows us to assess, arguments of this sort?
In conjunction with the tenth OSSA (Ontario Society for the Study of Argument) conference, CRRAR will offer a summer institute on multimodal arguments.
One trend in the development of argumentation theory is an increasingly broad conception of argument which recognizes (among other things) the use of “multi-modal” elements – images, music, and other non-verbal components – as key components of many arguments. In this course we consider the questions that this raises.