Events

2025

January
Weekly, Fridays, 3:30 PM MST
University of Lethbridge UH B853
zoom: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/93873881129
Reading Group: “Why We Argue and How We Should” Scott Aikin, Robert B. Talisse
2025-01-10; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca
Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): Catarina Dutilh Novaes, TBA
2025-01-24; 9:30 AM- 5PM MST
University of Lethbridge UH B853
zoom: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/96405896808
Principle of Charity Online Workshop

Fabio Perin Shecaira (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro):  On the permissibility of distorting an opponent’s views: important exceptions to the principle of charity. 
COMMENTATORNathan Fuehrer (University of Lethbridge)

Jianfeng Wang (University of Windsor):  The Stylistic Principle of Charity in Cross-Cultural Argumentation:  Audience Considerations in the Readouts of Xi-Biden Meetings.
COMMENTATOR:  Loris Isabettini (University of Windsor)

Michael Baumtrog (Toronto Metropolitan University):  Practical Epistemic Injustice and the Principle of Charity:  Examples from the Workplace
COMMENTATOR:  Anjali Bauri (University of British Columbia)

Geoff Goddu (University of Richmond):  But Is It Charity?
COMMENTATOR:  Manuel J. Sanchis Ferrer (NOVA University of Lisbon)

Jennifer Baker (College of Charleston):  Being Charitable while Critically Thinking:  We Do It for Ourselves
COMMENTATOR:  Aiden Roberston (University of Windsor)
February
Weekly, Fridays, 3:30 PM MST
University of Lethbridge UH B853
zoom: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/93873881129
Reading Group: “Why We Argue and How We Should” Scott Aikin, Robert B. Talisse
2025-02-07; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca

Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): Claire Lockard, TBA
March

Weekly, Fridays, 3:30 PM MST
University of Lethbridge UH B853
zoom: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/93873881129
Reading Group: “Why We Argue and How We Should” Scott Aikin, Robert B. Talisse
2025-03-07; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca
Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): Oliver Traldi, TBA
April

Weekly, Fridays, 3:30 PM MST
University of Lethbridge UH B853
zoom: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/93873881129
Reading Group: “Why We Argue and How We Should” Scott Aikin, Robert B. Talisse
2025-04-04; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca
Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): Ian Kidd, TBA
May


2025-05-02; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca
Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): Dale Hample, TBA
June

2025-06-06; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca
Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): Alain Létourneau, “Discussing the scheme “You plead for action X, but your actions are themselves in contradiction with X” as seen in the environmental field”
July

2025-07-04; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca
Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): Christoph Lumer, “A Welfare Ethics of Argumentation”
August

2025-08-01; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca
Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): Martina Orlandi, ““I’d Rather Talk to an AI”: Examining the Moral Risks of Outsourcing Belief Revision to ChatGPT”
September

Weekly, Fridays, 3:30 PM MST
University of Lethbridge UH B853
zoom: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/93873881129
Reading Group “Dog Whistles and Fig Leaves”, Jennifer Saul
2025-09-05; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca
Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): Merve Aktar, TBA
October

Weekly, Fridays, 3:30 PM MST
University of Lethbridge UH B853
zoom: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/93873881129
Reading Group “Dog Whistles and Fig Leaves”, Jennifer Saul
2025-10-03; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca
Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): Michael Baumtrog, “The Principle of Charity, Action, and Youth Epistemic Injustice”
2025-10-??
University of Lethbridge UH B853
Annual Work-In-Progress Workshop
November

Weekly, Fridays, 3:30 PM MST
University of Lethbridge UH B853
zoom: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/93873881129
Reading Group “Dog Whistles and Fig Leaves”, Jennifer Saul
2025-11-07; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca
Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): Yun Xie, TBA
December

Weekly, Fridays, 3:30 PM MST
University of Lethbridge UH B853
zoom: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/93873881129
Reading Group “Dog Whistles and Fig Leaves”, Jennifer Saul
2025-12-05; 11AM MST / 1PM ET
University of Lethbridge UH B853
To participate on zoom email: katharina.stevens@uleth.ca
Speaker Series Ethics of Argumentation (https://www.argnet.org/ethics-of-arg.html): David Godden, TBA