REASON Winter School 2019 Keynotes
Your thesis as an argument: How are you justifying your claims?
Sibel Erduran (University of Oxford)
[Like Charles Darwin who famously referred to his book The Origin of Species as “one long argument”, your dissertation will be based on an argument.]
A survey of leading argumentation methods for argument evaluation and argument invention
Douglas Walton (University of Windsor)
[Argumentation is a set of context-sensitive practical methods used to help a user identify, analyze and evaluate arguments, especially common ones of the kind often found in everyday discourse.]
Reasoning and argumentation in science: A perspective from (mathematical) philosophy
Stephan Hartmann (MCMP/LMU Munich)
[As scientific reasoning and argumentation crucially involve uncertainties, a Bayesian (or probabilistic) approach suggests itself.]
Connecting research and practice in social psychology – From the laboratory to motivation interventions in education
Judith Harackiewicz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
[It is essential that students perceive value in their academic work. This research contributes to our understanding of value transmission and interest development and suggests that teachers and parents can make important contributions to students’ academic performance by focusing on utility value.]