Offre d’emploi: poste d’assistant- doctorant en sciences de la communication

L’université de la Suisse Italienne met au concours un poste d’assistant-doctorant en Sciences de la communication, pour l’Institut de Linguistique et Sémiotique.

Détail de l’offre: ici

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Deuxième édition de l’école doctorale Argupolis : Argumentation practices in context.

Cette école voit la collaboration de collègues d’Amsterdam, Lausanne et aussi de Neuchâtel : d’abord Anne-Nelly Perret Clermont, en tant que membre du comité de pilotage, et puis Antonio Iannaccone en psychologie et Louis de Saussure en linguistique, qui vont présenter des modules de recherche. L’école débutera en janvier 2012 et se terminera en décembre 2014.

La participation aux différents cours est ouverte aussi à d’autres doctorants intéressés à ce domaine de recherche. Cela vaut pour les cours individuels et aussi pour l’entier programme qu’il est possible de suivre comme doctorants « externes » ayant obtenu l’approbation du comité de pilotage de l’école doctorale.

Davantage d’information sur le site Argupolis II (www.argupolis.net)

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SEP Entry on Informal Logic Updated

Just a quick announcement here to let you know that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Informal Logic has been updated by author Leo Groarke.  The update is a substantial one and includes a great many new resources in the links section.  Thanks are due to Leo for his work on this. Do check it out!

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Informal Logic vol. 31 no. 4, on Charles Hamblin

The latest edition of Informal Logic, dedicated to topics emerging from Charles Hamblin’s landmark 1970 work, Fallacies, is now available.  Contributing authors to this volume include Jim Mackenzie, Douglas Walton, Ralph Johnson, Fabrizio Macagno, and Jan Ablert van Laar and John Woods.It’s an interesting and welcome collection of essays with entries that range from developments of Hamblin’s ideas to criticism of the same.  In the latter category is John Woods’s highly recommended essay “Whither Consequence?”. Those interested in foundational questions of informal logic (for instance, whether informal logic is rightly called logic in the first place) will find Woods’s discussion of Hamblin’s views on induction very stimulating indeed.  It is an important discussion not just for informal logicians and argumentation theorists, but for logicians of all denominations. It easily is one of the best essays of the year.

Having had only the opportunity to peruse the other entries at this point I have to say that I’m very much looking forward to reading them too. If they are as interesting and insightful as I believe they are on the basis of what I’ve seen of them, then this issue of Informal Logic is a worthy tribute to the enduring importance of Charles Hamblin’s work and its impact on our field.

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