The Association of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) will host a talk by Dale Hample (U. Maryland), The Global Presence of Civility While Arguing, May 2, 1pm Eastern. Here is his description:
“In company with a number of scholars, I have spent more than ten years collecting and reporting data on how people orient to the prospect and experience of interpersonal argument. We have results from about twenty nations, with repeated data collections in several of them. We use (translated) surveys to gather people’s self-reports about their motivations for arguing or not, their understandings of what is going on when they do argue, and their emotional experience with interpersonal arguing. All these categories of interest have multiple instruments that add detail to the general notions of motivation, understanding, and feelings. One of those instruments is called civility and is formed from items that originally emerged from research done by Pam and Bill Benoit several decades ago.
In this talk, I begin by explaining the operational definition of civility used in the research. Next I make an effort to connect the conceptual elements of the measurement scales to various virtues associated with ethical arguing. Then I move on to discuss some of the results of the global project, showing how civility is associated with various of the other measurements. This is intended to show civility’s place in the whole inventory of motivations, understandings, and feelings about arguing face to face with another person, as well as the ethical implications of arguing with or without civility.”
You will be able to see the list of abstracts for this year under:
https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.
You will also find information about our upcoming speaker. You can also watch past talks on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF50_BXQYXwcqFfLdXav5rg.
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