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Curriculum Vitae

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Manuscripts

• (201x) From Features via Frames to Spaces. Modeling Scientific Conceptual Change without Incommensurability of Aprioricity. In: Gamerschlag, T., D. Gerland, R. Osswald & W. Petersen (eds). Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language Cognition and Science (CTF09). Duesseldorf (forthcoming).

• (201x). Deduction, Induction, Conduction. An Attempt at Unifying Natural Language Argument Structures. Manuscript.

• (201x). Analyzing Social Policy Argumentation: A Case Study of the 2007 Majority Opinion of the German National Ethics Council Regarding an Amendment of the Stem Cell Law. Informal Logic (forthcoming).

• (201x). Explanatory Coherence? Optimistic Induction at the Cost of Mysticism (under review).

• (2009g) Review of F.H. van Eemeren & B. Garssen (eds) (2008). Controversy and Confrontation, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Informal Logic 29, 447-475.

• (2009f). Treating Kuhn’s Gap with Critical Contextualism. Review of William Rehg (2009). Cogent Science in Context. The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory and Habermas, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Cogency 1, 149-182.

• (2009e). The Importance of Being Eurotrash. Practical Advice on EU Frontier Worker Regulations and Benefits. LuPod (Lund University Postdoc Forum).

• (2009d). with Peter Gärdenfors. Using Conceptual Spaces to Model the Dynamics of Empirical Theories. In: Olsson, E. J.& S. Enquist (eds). Belief Revision Meets Philosophy of Science (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science-Series). Berlin: Springer (forthcoming).

• (2009c). Commentary on J. Plug’s “Telling Examples. Strategic Maneuvering in Plenary Debates in the European Parliament”. In: Ritola, J. (ed). Proceedings of the 8th Int. Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), Windsor, ON, June 2009 (forthcoming).

• (2009b). Reconstructive Charity, Soundness and the RSA-Criteria of Good Argumentation. In: Ritola, J. (ed). Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), Windsor, ON, Canada (forthcoming).

• (2009a). Ceteris Paribus in Conservative Belief Revision (Ph.D. Thesis, Hamburg 2007). Berlin: Peter Lang (ISBN 978-3-631-57283-2).

• (2008d). Translation [ENGL > GER] of: Tindale, C. (2008). Fallacy Studies in the North-American Tradition (unpublished manuscript).

• (2008c). Argumentationstheorie. Lecture Scripts, Ruhr-University Bochum.

• (2008b). Translation [GER > ENG] of: Wohlrapp, H (2008). The Pro- and Contra-Discussion. A Critique of Trudy Govier’s 'Conductive Argument' (unpublished manuscript).

• (2008a). Entries: AGM; Deduction; Dilemma. In: Russo, F. & J. Williamson (eds). Key Terms in Logic. London: Continuum Books (forthcoming).

• (2007c). Complexity without Insight. Ceteris Paribus Clauses in Conductive Argumentation. In: Jacobs, S (ed.) Concerning Argument. Washington: National Communication Association (Proceedings of the 2007 NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, Alta, Utah), 810-818.

• (2007b). Pragma-Dialectic’s Necessary Conditions for a Critical Discussion. Proceedings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), Windsor 2007 (CD ROM).

• (2007a). Changes in Conduct-Rules and Ten Commandments: Pragma-Dialectics 1984 vs. 2004. In: F.H. van Eemeren (et al.) (eds). Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA), Amsterdam 2006, 1581-1589.

• (2006b). Lakatos’ Challenge? Auxiliary Hypotheses and Non-Monotonous Inference. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 37, 405-415.

• (2006a). Monotonicity and Reasoning with Exceptions. Argumentation 20, 227-236.

• (2002) The Etymological Argument. Fallacy or Sound Move? (MA Thesis, Amsterdam 2002) Munich: GRIN Publishing GmbH (ISBN 978-3-638-14401-8).

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I am a PostDoc Researcher at the University of Lund, Sweden, Departments of Philosophy and Cognitive Science.

My project applies Gärdenfors's Conceptual Spaces and Olsson's model of Agenda-Driven Change to theory-dynamical processes in the empirical sciences. It is funded by the Swedish Research Council.

As of 2009, I am a book review editor for Cogency (with Juho Ritola, Turku), treasurer of the Lund Philosophical Society and a founding member of the Lund Postdoctoral Society.

My PhD in Philosophy is from the University of Hamburg, Germany (2007), the MA degree in Discourse and Argumentation Studies from the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2002).

Please write to: mail[at]frankzenker.de
 

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