Can Artificial Intelligence engage in reasonable conversations with humans? Why do populist parties attract voters by offering simple solutions to complex problems? Are all conspiracy theories stupid? When should we accept the claims of others? What to do to justify one’s own claims? How to produce good decisions? How to refute falsehoods and detect fallacies? What counts as a good reason? Do reasons persuade?
The European Conference on Argumentation (ECA) is a biennial pan-European initiative aiming to consolidate and advance research on argumentation. After four successful editions, in Lisbon in 2015, Fribourg in 2017, Groningen in 2019 and Rome in 2022, ECA will be hosted in 2025 by the Warsaw University of Technology, in Warsaw, Poland. We aim to attract scholars on argumentation worldwide from various disciplines, dealing with a range of themes and adopting a variety of approaches.
The next RSE conference, Rhetoric in Society 9, will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in Croatia on June 18–21, 2025. This year’s conference theme is Rhetoric in the Digital Age and the call for papers is out now – deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2024.