Anjali Bauri is pursuing a Master of Arts in philosophy at the University of British Columbia. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and Science in philosophy and psychology, with an honours in philosophy. Her research has been primarily focused on children, their vulnerability, and caregivers’ obligations towards children. Her work draws on several fields of study both within and on the boundaries of philosophy (applied ethics, biomedical ethics, social-political philosophy, childhood studies, feminist philosophy, argumentation, social justice, etc). While she is at the Lab, she is working on two papers: “Opposing Children: Adversarial Argumentation in Caregiver-Child Contexts” and “Ethics of Doubt and Skepticism in Adversarial and Cooperative Models of Argumentation. You can find out more about her here.  

If you want to talk about grad school or about children and how they argue, feel free to reach out at anjalie.828@gmail.com

Olena Yaskorska-Shah’s main interest falls into the investigation of persuasive communication and applying computational tools for the teaching and dissemination of logic and critical thinking skills. She has been working in different international and interdisciplinary research groups investigating argumentation in context, such as ARG-tech, University of Dundee, UK, IALS, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland and New Ethos, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. The current list of applications can be checked here: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-4669-9462 .

Currently she is working towards developing methods and epistemic tools for critical information processing, which would have applications in such domains as media literacy and epistemology, discourse studies, methodology of sciences, etc.

If you are interested in argumentation in discourse or visualization and computational tools in teaching and studying argumentation and critical thinking, please contact me: OYaskorska@gmail.com .