Neighbourhood Change... Reason to Leave?

Leave nothing to change: using English to navigate your presentation

6. returning to the main theme I’d like now to return to the main theme of my presentation... Now let’s go back to the central theme of my talk... I have already spoken about the need to prepare attractive slides to transmit your discoveries, procedures and statistics during an oral presentation at a peer-to-peer congress. I have also already mentioned the fact that during your presentation you...

To leave or not to leave.

Lies, damned lies and Brexit statistics. It's not been a good month for anyone espousing evidence-based policy and politics after the chair of the Commons health committee switched from Leave to Remain, citing misuse of data by the Leave campaign.

Learning to Reason: a Reason!-able Approach

How are general informal reasoning skills acquired? Little research has been done on this topic. Two hypotheses dominate. According to the strong situated learning hypothesis, there are no general informal reasoning skills (only contextor domainspecific skills) and so nothing can be done to improve them. According to the practice hypothesis, general informal reasoning can be improved through in...

Vision to reason

How to Reason Defeasibly

This paper describes the construction of a general-purpose defeasible reasoner that is complete for first-order logic and provably adequate for the argument-based conception of defeasible reasoning that I have developed elsewhere. Because the set of warranted conclusions for a defeasible reasoner will not generally be recursively enumerable, a defeasible reasoner based upon a rich logic like th...