The 4-year project — “European network for Argumentation andPublic PoLicY analysis” (APPLY) — will start with a series of kick-off events at the ArgLab in Lisbon.

The goal of the kick-off event is to encapsulate the project’s main objectives, methods and topics via a variety of presentations, meetings and working sessions. These activities will focus on the problems of argumentation in public policy-making, especially in the context of climate change and energy debates.

The first day Opening Conference is followed by two days of focused work within the Action’s three Working Groups.

Argumentation and Public Policy

International Conference

Tuesday, 19 March 2019 I Campus de Campolide

The conference inaugurates the 4-year COST project: “European network for Argumentation andPublic PoLicY analysis” (APPLY). It brings together international experts on argumentation in public policy: 4 invited speakers and around a 100 project members from across Europe, Canada and the USA.

The goal of the conference is to present and discuss leading research investigating the problems of public policy understood as problems of argumentation and deliberation and, as such, as problems of the rationality of discourse in collective knowledge and action. Four internationally leading scholars will present their most recent theorizing on these topics. 

Further details available here.

Attendance is free but registration in necessary. If interested, please register here by Friday, March 15.

9:30-10:15 Opening

Prof. João Sàágua, Rector of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (tbc)

Prof. Francisco Caramelo, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH)

Dr. Marcin Lewiński, Chair of the COST Action, Coordinator of the ArgLab, Nova Institute of Philosophy

10:15-11:15

John S. Dryzek (Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, Australia)

The Crisis of Democratic Discourse: Diagnosis and Deliberative Response

11:30-12:30

Kjersti Fløttum (University of Bergen, Norway)

Climate Change Discourse in a Linguistic and Cross-Disciplinary Perspective

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00

Frans van Eemeren (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Identifying Argumentative Style: Theoretical Tools for Dealing with a Complex Notion

15:00-16:00

Chris Tindale (Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, University of Windsor, Canada)

“Someone Passed This Way”: Argument Events and the Venatic Tradition

16:00-17:00 Reception