Scientific and Academic Argumentation: Critical Reasoning and Logic / 26-7-CR-3

Content

Scientists and scholars have to give arguments all the time - in their publications as well as in conferences and lab meetings. Nevertheless, the bases for strong and correct arguments are not always fully clear to them. Logic provides extremely helpful tools for scientists and scholars to develop their arguments in a coherent, well-structured and convincing way. The seminar gives an introduction to the most important concepts of logic: premises and conclusions of arguments, validity and soundness of arguments, deductive vs. inductive reasoning, common types of inferences and fallacies. The idea of the workshop is to use the concepts as a toolbox which provides very useful techniques for every-day scientific work.

 

The participants learn how to reconstruct arguments from scientific texts, how to give well-structured and logically valid arguments, and how to avoid misunderstandings. There are two main sets of exercises: one for written argumentation and one for oral argumentation.

Every participant will receive a 30 min individual consultation with Kai Hüwelmeyer.

 

Participation

 

Doctoral researchers (all disciplines) of the Berlin University Alliance.

 

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Further Information 

 

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