New (personal) website

On September 1, I started my stay as a visiting lecturer at University College London. On this occasion, I opened a new personal website, on which you can read all my present research interests and download some pre-prints of my publications: Sara Greco Morasso's webpage

I also have a homepage on Academia.edu: http://ucl.academia.edu/SaraGrecoMorasso, which I am trying to keep up-to-date. I believe this is a network that will certainly grow bigger, because you can 'meet' international colleagues in your research area, see their publications and informally follow their work.

New Publication on the Argumentum Model of Topics

A new paper on the Argumentum Model of Topics has just appeared on the journal Argumentation:


Comparing the Argumentum Model of Topics to Other Contemporary Approaches to Argument Schemes: The Procedural and Material Components
Eddo Rigotti and Sara Greco Morasso


See the ONLINE FIRST section from the homepage of Argumentation, from which the paper can be downloaded:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/102850/?Content+Status=Accepted

Abstract
This paper focuses on the inferential configuration of arguments, generally referred to as argument scheme. After outlining our approach, denominated Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT, see Rigotti and Greco Morasso 2006, 2009; Rigotti 2006, 2008, 2009), we compare it to other modern and contemporary approaches, to eventually illustrate some advantages offered by it. In spite of the evident connection with the tradition of topics, emerging also from AMT’s denomination, its involvement in the contemporary dialogue on argument schemes should not be overlooked. The model builds in particular on the theoretical and methodological perspective of pragma-dialectics in its extended version, reconciling dialectic and rhetoric; nevertheless, it also takes into account numerous other contributions to the study of argument schemes. Aiming at a representation of argument schemes able to monitor the inferential cohesion and completeness of arguments, AMT focuses on two components of argument scheme that could be distinguished, readapting pragma-dialectical terms, as procedural and material respectively. The procedural component is based on the semantic-ontological structure, which generates the inferential connection from which the logical form of the argument is derived. The material component integrates into the argument scheme the implicit and explicit premises bound to the contextual common ground (Rigotti 2006). In this paper, the comparison of the AMT to other approaches focuses on the inferential configuration of arguments and not on the typologies of argument schemes and on the principles they are based on, which the authors intend to tackle in a further paper.

Argumentation in international movements (migration tourism...)

...The conference Enter2010 (http://www.enter2010.org/) is just completed! This has given us the occasion to reflect on the impact of argumentation on international movements (tourism, migration...) involving intercultural exchanges and discussions.

See in particular Silvia de Ascaniis's paper (Visualizing and mapping argumentation in the tourism field). Short papers will be published soon here

To be continued...

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(photos of the conference available on Flickr. The youngest participant was my son)

La bibliométrie en question

La bibliométrie en question: origines, approches et alternatives

"Ce premier colloque vise à clarifier les origines de la bibliométrie conventionnelle

dans le domaine de l’évaluation de la recherche. Dans une perspective historique

et méthodologique, nous examinerons les approches dominantes et alternatives

possibles. Un accent particulier sera mis sur les sciences humaines et sociales,

non seulement comme objets de mesure et d’évaluation complexes, mais aussi et

surtout comme disciplines riches en enseignement pour comprendre la recherche

en action. L’articulation entre approches quantitatives et qualitatives sera au

centre du débat. Le colloque s’adresse à toute personne intéressée ou concernée

par la thématique, que ce soit dans une perspective politique, administrative ou

scientifique. Les communications seront en français et en anglais."

From: http://www2.unine.ch/webdav/site/spc/shared/documents-agenda/ColloqueQualite.pdf

Neuchâtel, February 4 and 5 2010 - participation is free

ARGUMENTATION AND EDUCATION

Argumentation and Education: Theoretical Foundations and Practices
Muller Mirza, Nathalie; Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly (Eds.)
New York: Springer, 2009, VI, 237 p. 25 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-387-98124-6

Table of contents
Introduction, Nathalie Muller Mirza and Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont

Part I. Theoretical Foundations
Argumentation as an Object of Interest and as a Social and Cultural Resource, Eddo Rigotti and Sara Greco Morasso
Psychosocial Processes in Argumentation, Nathalie Muller Mirza, Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, Valerie Tartas, and Antonio Iannaccone
Argumentation and Learning, Baruch B. Schwarz
Argumentative Interactions and the Social Construction of Knowledge, Michael Baker
Argumentative Design, Jerry E. B. Andriessen and Baruch B. Schwarz

Part II. Practices
Developing Argumentation: Lessons Learned in the Primary School, Neil Mercer
Argumentation in Higher Education: Examples of Actual Practices with Argumentation Tools, Jerry E. B. Andriessen
The Argumentum Experience, Sara Greco Morasso

'Research week' at the University of Neuchâtel

Today I completed a research week that I had the opportunity to live at the Institut de Psychologie et Education of the University of Neuchâtel. I had a beautiful opportunity to discuss with several colleagues and open new possible research paths on argumentation. I am thankful to all of them.

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During this week, I have also finished teaching my two 2009 courses - "Argumentation et construction des connaissances" and "Argumentation et formation" - together with a group of very active students, whom I would also like to thank.