Marcin Lewiński
Postdoctoral Researcher, ArgLab, IFL, FCSH-UNL.
m.lewinski@fcsh.unl.pt
Academic Degrees
PhD in Humanities: Argumentation Theory, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010.
MA in Philosophy: Discourse and Argumentation Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2006.
MA in Philology: Journalism and Social Communication, University of Wrocław, Poland, 2002.
BA in Philology: Journalism and Social Communication, University of Wrocław, Poland, 2000.
Research Interests
Argumentation theory; deliberation theory; online deliberation; political philosophy; pragmatics; rhetoric.
Current research projects
Argumentation in the virtual public sphere: between ideal models and actual practices (SFRH/BPD/74541/2010) – FCT-funded individual post-doctoral project.
Argumentation, Communication and Context (PTDC/FIL–FIL/10117/2009) – FCT-funded institutional project in ArgLab.
Main Publications
Books (author)
Lewiński, M. (2010). Internet political discussion forums as an argumentative activity type: A pragma-dialectical analysis of online forms of strategic manoeuvring with critical reactions. Amsterdam: SicSat.
Digital version available here.
Review in Argumentation, available here.
Chapters in Books
Eemeren, F.H. van, Houtlosser, P., Ihnen, C., & Lewiński, M. (2010). Contextual considerations in the evaluation of argumentation. In C. Reed & C. Tindale (Eds.), Dialectics, dialogue and argumentation: An examination of Douglas Walton’s theories of reasoning and argument (pp. 115-132). London: College Publications.
Lewiński, M. (2010). Typy aktywności argumentacyjnych a racjonalność argumentacji. Rola kontekstu w w pragma-dialektycznej analizie i o cenie argumentacji. In W. Suchoń, I. Trzcieniecka-Schneider, & D. Kowalski (Eds.), Argumentacja i racjonalna zmiana przekonań (pp. 213-237). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskigo. [Argumentative activity types and rationality of argumentation. The role of context in a pragma-dialectical analysis and evaluation of argumentation.] (In Polish).
Peer-reviewed papers
Lewiński, M. (in print). Collective argumentative criticism in informal online discussion forums, to appear in Argumentation and Advocacy.
Other papers
Lewiński, M. (2011). „The collective antagonist” – multiple criticisms in informal online deliberation.
Lewiński, M. (2009). “You're moving from irrelevant to irrational” – critical reactions in Internet discussion forums. In J. Ritola (Ed.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA). Windsor, ON, CD ROM.
Lewiński, M. (2009). Review of: Douglas Walton, Fundamentals of critical argumentation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Argumentation, 23(1), 123-126.
Lewiński, M. (2008). Comments on „Black box arguments”. Argumentation, 22(3), 447-451.
Main conference presentations
(2011) When and how do we deal with straw men? Presented at the International Conference ‘Communication and Cognition 2011: Manipulation, Persuasion and Deception in Language’, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, January 26-28 [with Steve Oswald].
(2010) „The collective antagonist” – multiple criticisms in informal online deliberation. Presented at 7th Conference on Argumentation of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 29 - July 1.
(2009) Can a straw man topple the principle of charity? A pragma-dialectical account of strategic manoeuvring with interpretation in critical reactions. Presented at the 10th Amsterdam-Lugano Colloquium on Argumentation Theory, University of Lugano, Switzerland, November 27-28.
(2009) “You’re moving from irrelevant to irrational” – critical reactions in Internet discussion forums. Presented at the 8th Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation „Argument Cultures,” University of Windsor, Canada, June 3-6.
(2009) Critical argumentative reactions in political online discussion fora. Presented at the 2nd ‘Rhetoric in Society’ Conference, Leiden University, The Netherlands, January 21-23.
(2008) The straw man fallacy in Internet discussion forums. Presented at the ‘2nd International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment – Thinking and Speaking a Better World’, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 11-13.
(2008) „My words mean what they say.” Soundness conditions for the straw man fallacy. Presented at the ‘Logic, Argumentation and Critical Thinking’ Conference, Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile, January 8-11.
Grants received
(2011-2014) Post-doctoral grant awarded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT): Argumentation in the virtual public sphere: between ideal models and actual practices (SFRH/BPD/74541/2010).
(2005-2006) Huygens Scholarship awarded by the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC): 12 months as a master’s student at the Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric, University of Amsterdam.
Professional membership
ISSA – International Society for the Study of Argumentation
ILIAS – International Learned Institute for Argumentation Studies
ArguPolis – Argumentation practices in context
