It is wel l known that human beings do not always reason cor rectly. There are various kinds of fallacies and b iases with which we meet in ordinary life, and rea soning problems to which most people give wrong an swers in experimental situations. While context ha s by now been recognized as playing a fundamental role in the philosophy of language as well as in o ther philosophical fields, its role in the debate about human rationality has not yet been explored systematically. The workshop intends to examine wh at is the role of context in various approaches to the explanation and the evaluation of reason ing, but also, more generally and ambitiously, whe ther and how the use of context in the explanation and the evaluation of reasoning can be made more systematic and effective (even to the aim of solvi ng, or dissolving, the traditional puzzles of the rationality debate).
\n\nThis workshop is part of the 10th International and Interdisciplina ry Conference on Modeling and Using Context (Conte xt-17). Workshop organizers: Marina Sbisà and Paol o Labinaz (University of Trieste).
\nWe welcome presentation proposals from all relevant research fields on the following topics (broadly understood): argumentation and context, c ontext and fallacies, context and the norms of rea soning, rationality and context, reasoning and cog nitive development, reasoning and its evolutionary environment, reasoning and pragmatics, and reason ing and relativism. Submission due: December 31th, 2016.
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