[ecrea] ECA Fribourg 2017 2nd European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Inference

status: CfP Call for papers
conference
ECA Fribourg 2017 2nd European Conference on Argumentation: 
Argumentation and Inference
20.06.2017-23.06.2017
20-23 June 2017, Fribourg, Switzerland

The European Conference on Argumentation (ECA) is a pan-European 
biennial initiative aiming to consolidate and advance various strands of 
research on argumentation and reasoning by gathering scholars from a 
range of disciplines. After a successful 1st edition held in Lisbon in 
2015, ECA will be hosted in 2017 by the Department of English at the 
University of Fribourg, Switzerland. While based in Europe, ECA involves 
and encourages participation from argumentation scholars all over the 
world. Special Theme: Argumentation and inference In addition to 
welcoming submissions linked to argumentation studies in general, each 
ECA edition has a special theme. While the 1st edition of ECA was 
devoted to exploring the relationship between argumentation and the 
decisions that follow from it, the 2017 Fribourg edition will focus on 
the cognitive processes involved in argumentation, with a clear focus on 
inference as one of the key features of the argumentative process. 
Argumentation studies have  increasingly expanded over the last decades 
with a clear opening towards cognitive science, and we accordingly 
believe that the time is ripe to ground a discussion in the community 
around the notion of inference, along its formal, social and cognitive 
dimensions. The overarching questions the conference theme will be 
concerned with are therefore the following: How does the study of 
argumentation connect with the notion of inference and how, as a 
discipline, does it connect with the disciplines involved in the study 
of the cognitive features of inference? Granting, of course, that we 
take argumentation to be the verbal and social manifestation of 
inferential processes, we are particularly seeking contributions 
focusing on the ins and outs of (i) how reasoning, but more generally 
inference, influences and constrains argument production and (ii) which 
(and how) inferential processes are involved in argument reception, thus 
covering cognitive tasks such as understanding and accepting. T
 o foster this discussion, the conference seeks to attract scholars in 
argumentation coming from a range of different traditions, including 
(but not limited to) philosophy, psychology, linguistics, informal 
logic, speech communication, pragma-dialectics, epistemic approaches, 
rhetoric, dialectics, logic, and computational approaches. The lines of 
inquiry promoted for ECA 2017 in Fribourg are the following, but this 
indicative list is neither exhaustive nor limitative: -inferential 
processes in argument production -cognitive states as motivations to 
argue -typology of argumentative inferences -pedagogy and inference in 
critical thinking -topoi and argument schemes -rhetorical strategies 
-qualifiers -inference and persuasion -types of inference linked to 
types of arguments -political argumentation -comprehension and 
acceptance -stylistic effects -understanding and believing -inferences 
linked to figures of speech -fallacies and cognitive biases in 
argumentation -inference in argumentat
 ive decision-making -formal models of inference -quality of 
deliberation -computational models of inference -developmental views on 
inference and argumentation -automatic recognition of argumentative 
inferences -reflective and intuitive inference in argumentation -the 
relationship between norms and inference -relationships between culture 
(and social context) -social cognition and argumentation -inference in 
argumentative contexts. Submissions from students and young scholars are 
encouraged. To this end, ECA has established the Frans van Eemeren Prize 
for Outstanding Student Paper sponsored by Springer. The winning paper 
will be awarded a 500 € (around 575 US$) cash prize and additional 300 € 
(around 345 US$) in books from Springer’s catalogue.
Special Theme: Argumentation and inference

In addition to welcoming submissions linked to argumentation studies in 
general, each ECA edition has a special theme. While the 1st edition of 
ECA was devoted to exploring the relationship between argumentation and 
the decisions that follow from it, the 2017 Fribourg edition will focus 
on the cognitive processes involved in argumentation, with a clear focus 
on what happens ‘upstream’ in the argumentative chain, both in 
production and reception. The 2nd edition of ECA will thus focus on 
inference as one of the key features of the argumentative process.
The field of argumentation has been expanding over the last decade with 
a clear opening towards cognitive psychology (and cognitive science more 
generally) and the processes it accounts for. With the development of 
cognitive science as an encompassing framework within which both 
psychological and social aspects of human behaviour can be accounted 
for, we believe that the time is ripe to ground a discussion in the 
community of argumentation studies around the notion of inference, along 
its formal, social and cognitive dimensions. The overarching questions 
the conference theme will be concerned with are therefore the following: 
How does the study of argumentation connect with the notion of inference 
and how, as a discipline, does it connect with the disciplines involved 
in the study of the cognitive features of inference? Granting, of 
course, that we take argumentation to be the verbal and social 
manifestation of inferential processes, we are seeking contributions 
focusing on the ins a
 nd outs of (i) how reasoning, but more generally inference, influences 
and constrains argument production and (ii) which (and how) inferential 
processes are involved in argument reception, thus covering cognitive 
tasks such as understanding and accepting.
To foster this discussion, the conference accordingly seeks to attract 
scholars in argumentation coming from a range of different traditions, 
including (but not limited to) philosophy, psychology, linguistics, 
informal logic, speech communication, pragma-dialectics, epistemic 
approaches, rhetoric, dialectics, logic, and computational approaches.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
•	ULRIKE HAHN
Birkbeck, University of London, UK
•	SALLY JACKSON University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
•	JOHAN VAN BENTHEM
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
•	DEIRDRE WILSON
University College London, UK & University of Oslo, Norway
  More on our  Keynote Speakers
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TOPICS
The lines of inquiry promoted for ECA 2017 in Fribourg are the 
following, but this indicative list is neither exhaustive nor limitative:
•	inferential processes geared towards the production of arguments
•	typology of inferences involved in argumentation
•	topoi and argument schemes
•	qualifiers
•	links between types of inference and types of arguments
•	comprehension and acceptance, understanding and believing
•	fallacies and cognitive biases in relation to argumentation
•	formal models of inference
•	computational models of inference
•	automatic recognition of argumentative inferences in texts
•	the relationship between norms and inference
•	social cognition and argumentation
•	cognitive states as motivations to argue
•	pedagogy and inference in teaching critical thinking
•	rhetorical strategies, inference and persuasion
•	political argumentation
•	stylistic effects, figures of speech and the inferential processes 
they trigger
•	inference in argumentative decision-making, quality of deliberation
•	development of inferential and argumentative capacities in children
•	reflective and intuitive inference in argumentative contexts
•	relationships between culture (and social context) and inference in 
argumentative contexts
Submissions from students and young scholars are encouraged. To this 
end, ECA has established the Frans van Eemeren Prize for Outstanding 
Student Paper sponsored by Springer. The winning paper will be awarded a 
500 € (around 575 US$) cash prize and additional 300 € (around 345 US$) 
in books from Springer’s catalogue. ________________________________________

ECA SUMMER SCHOOL
Prior to the ECA conference, a summer school for PhD students in 
argumentation will take place at the Università della Svizzera Italiana 
in Lugano, from 16 to 19 June. More information will soon be available 
on the dedicated page.

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

The Programme Committee invites the following types of original 
submissions: (i) long paper, (ii) regular paper and (iii) thematic 
panel/symposium, (iv) poster

Contact person: The ECA2017 Organising Committee
email: (ecafribourg2017 /at/ gmail.com)

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