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June 16, 2005
St Louis
Here's something that I've been meaning to post for a while. It seems that Peter McBurney knows a lot more about the logic scene in St Louis than I do. He writes:
I keep meaning to ask you if you know that St. Louis (which I know you're currently away from) is a hotbed of argumentation theory? One of the founders of computational argumentation, Ron Loui, is in Computer Science at Wash U:
http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~loui/
and in the Philosophy Department at SLU is William Rehg:
http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/philos/frehg.html
I have co-authored a paper with Bill and my former PhD supervisor (Simon Parsons), on assessing the socio-political legitimacy of systems for computer-supported argument.
Ron Loui supervised the PhD of Guillermo Simari, who returned to his native Argentina and by force of personality established the National University of the South (UNS) in Bahia Blanca as a major world centre for computational argument. (The other locations are the Universities of Liverpool and Utrecht, IRIT in Toulouse, and the AI Lab at Cancer Research UK in London.)
Appropos nothing, really, except that St Louis is famous for more than TS Eliot and Miles Davis!
And the arch, of course. And Scott Joplin and Chuck Berry.
And that fabulous song lyric:
St Louie woman, with her diamond rings,
Drags that man around, by her apron strings.
If it wasn't for powder, and her store-bought hair,
that man I loved, wouldn't have gone nowhere.
It's quite a city, though I've yet to find the hair store. I was back there for a few hours yesterday, (I'm on the road a lot at the moment - I'm in London now and it'll be the southern hemisphere by the end of the month) and was happy to have a chance to catch up with my computer science colleague, Aaron Stump.
Thanks Peter.
Posted by logican at June 16, 2005 04:52 PM
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