\n The European Conference on Argumentation (ECA ) is a new\n pan-European initiative aiming to consolidate and advance\n various strea ks of research into argumentation and reasoning:\n from philosophical, linguistic, discourse analytic, cognitive,\n to computational app roaches. The chief goal of the initiative\n is to organize on a regular basis a major confere nce on\n argumentation. The first of these conferences will be hosted\n in Lisbon by t he ArgLab, Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA),\n Universidade Nova de Lisboa.\n
\n\n The primary idea behind this firs t edition of the conference\n is that argum entation and reasoning are the main vehicles for\n our decisions and actions. They accompany, indeed constitute,\n a variety of signific ant social practices: from individual\n pra ctical reasoning, small group decisions, deliberat ions of\n official bodies in various instit utional contexts, to\n large-scale politica l and social deliberations. Argumentation\n is understood here as a mode of action - and not just any\n action, but a reasoned action, c omprised of consideration of\n reasons (whe ther they are good or bad). Traditionally,\n argumentation has been assigned many distinct fu nctions:\n epistemic, moral, conversational , etc. The aim of the\n conference is to ex plore how these functions are interrelated\n with the practical need for deciding on a course of\n action. Simply put, our chief concern is with the role\n argumentation and reaso ning play when the question of 'what to\n d o?' is addressed.\n
\n \n \nFor more information, see\n http://w ww.ecargument.org/\n
\n\n The Programme Committee and Organising Committee invite the\n following types of original submissions: individual long\n papers, individual regular papers, and them atic\n panels/symposia. All kinds of approa ches to argumentation and\n reasoning are w elcome. The deadline for all submissions is 1\n October 2014.\n
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