Where's Your Argument?

Informal Logic, Critical Thinking and Argumentation

A Two-Day Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, Cheshire UK

Monday and Tuesday April 12th & 13th 2010

Frans van Eemeren

on the Pragma-Dialectical Approach to Argument

Lars Hertzberg

on the Grammar of Inference

Don S. Levi

on the Informality of Logic

Michael Loughlin

on the "Evidence Based Medicine" Debate

Steven Poole

on Unspeak

John Powell

on Criteria for Good Argument

Rupert Read

on “Reframing” and “Unspeak”? or Politics Without Propaganda?

Jamie Whyte

on Bad Thoughts and Worse Policies

The conference is free to attend, but you must book a place before April 1st 2010. We can arrange discounted accommodation, for a booking fee of £10 per person

For More Information email: whereisyourargument.mmu@googlemail.com

The conference is supported by donations from the Aristotelian Society, the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, the Mind Association and the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, MMU Cheshire

Organisers: Ben Cassidy and Phil Hutchinson