Fabrizio Macagno
fabrizio.macagno@fcsh.unl.pt
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Academic Appointments
- January 2014 – present
Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem
Research fellow (Investigador FCT). Field of investigation: Argumentation theory and science education.
- September 2011 - present
Universidade Nova de Lisboa – FCSH
Visiting Auxiliar Professor: Course: Estratégias Argumentativas (MA in Strategic communication).
- September-December 2012
Teachers College at Columbia University
Visiting Scholar: Research under the supervision of Prof. Deanna Kuhn on dialectical strategies in education.
- September 2010 – December 2013
Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem
Post-doc researcher. Field of investigation: Argumentation theory and pragmatics.
Latest publications
Books
- Macagno, F. Walton, D. (2014). Emotive language in argumentation. Cambridge University Press, New York. Available at: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/logic/emotive-language-argumentation?format=PB
Journal articles
- Macagno, F. & Damele. G. (2013). The Dialogical Force of Implicit Premises: Presumptions in Enthymemes. Informal Logic 33 (3): 365-393. Avaliable here (http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/3679)
- Macagno, F. (2013). Strategies of character attack. Argumentation 27(4): 369-401. Avaliable here ( http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10503-013-9291-1#page-1)
- Konstantinidou, K. & Macagno, F. (2013) Understanding Students’ Reasoning: Argumentation Schemes as an Interpretation Method in Science Education. Science and Education 22(5): 1069-1087. Avaliable here (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11191-012-9564-3)
- Macagno, F. & Konstantinidou, K (2013). What students’ arguments can tell us. Using argumentation schemes in science education. Argumentation 27(3): 225-243. Avaliable here (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10503-012-9284-5)
Book chapters
- Macagno, F. & Walton, D. (2013). Implicatures as Forms of Argument. In A. Capone et al. (eds.), Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy (pp. 203-224). Berlin/New York: Springer. Avaliable here (http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-01011-3_9)
- Macagno, F. (2013). The acts and strategies of defining. In G. Kišiček and I. Ž. Žagar (eds.), What do We Know about the World? Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives (pp. 63-78). Windsor (ON): Windsor studies in argumentation. Avaliable here (http://windsor.scholarsportal.info/omp/index.php/wsia/catalog/book/8)
Latest conference presentations
- May 2013. What We Hide in Words: Value-Based Reasoning and Emotive Language. OSSA Conference – The virtues of argumentation (University of Windsor, May 22-25, 2013). Avaliable here (http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA10/papersandcommentaries/109/)
- May 2013. Commentary on CRITICISM IN NEED OF CLARIFICATION. OSSA Conference – The virtues of argumentation (University of Windsor, May 22-25, 2013). Avaliable here: (http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA10/papersandcommentaries/103/)
- Invited Speaker. May 2013. Analogy and (re)definitions. The role of analogy in argumentative discourse (University of Coimbra, May 3-4, 2013) Avaliable here: (http://fabriziomacagno.altervista.org/uploads/2/6/7/7/26775238/analogy_and_redefinition.pdf)
- April 2013. Personal attacks: Strategies and emotive reasoning. III International Workshop on Argumentation: Beyond Current Paradigms (UNED, Madrid 24-25 April 2013).
- January 2013. Strategies of character attack. Rhetoric in Society (Copenhagen, 15-18 January 2013).