Month: October 2018

Bridging the Gap between Formal Argumentation and Actual Human Reasoning

Later this week Dr Alice Toniolo will be an invited speaker at “Bridging the Gap between Formal Argumentation and Actual Human Reasoning” taking place at the Institute for Philosophy II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Her talk will focus on argumentation-based support for human sensemaking of conflicting information. See abstract below for more information. Abstract: Models of argumentation … Bridging the Gap between Formal Argumentation and Actual Human Reasoning

School Seminar – Professor Patrick Olivier – Digital Civics: Infrastructuring Participatory Citizenship

Title:  Digital Civics: Infrastructuring Participatory Citizenship Abstract:  Firstly, this is not technical talk, its a talk about a research initiative in “Digital Civics” that Open Lab is undertaking primarily with partners in the North East of England, but also nationally and internationally. Digital Civics proposes the use of digital technologies in the provision of relational models of … School Seminar – Professor Patrick Olivier – Digital Civics: Infrastructuring Participatory Citizenship

PhD viva success: Amjad Al Tobi

Congratulations to Amjad Al Tobi, who successfully defended his thesis last week. He is pictured with supervisor Dr Ishbel Duncan, Internal examiner Dr Tom Kelsey and external examiner Dr Xavier Bellekens, from Abertay University.