On the morning of May 31, Professor Xiong Minghui at Sun Yat-sen University, a famous Chinese logician, gave a lecture titled “How to argue?” in the Moot Court of the Law School on the F16 of Sanjiang Building, on the invitation of the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Law and the International Learned Institute of Argumentation Studies. The lecture was chaired by School of Foreign Languages Deputy Dean Professor Su Jianhong. More than 80 students and faculty members from the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Law, the School of Management, and the Science Faculty attended the lecture. Professor Xiong impressed the audience with his humorous but simple explanation of the profound knowledge of logic. He cited examples from daily life to illustrate his point of view.
Professor Xiong first introduced his rapport with the International Learned Institute of Argumentation Studies at Jiangsu University and the influence of the ILIAS in the academic circle. Then he expounded the different conception of “argumentation” in the Chinese and the English language, pointing at the importance of argumentation on various occasions and in different contexts. He elaborated the 45 argumentation rules enumerated by British scholar Anthony Weston in his book titled A Rulebook for Arguments, expounding “How to argue” from the perspective of logic. During the lecture of more than 2 hours, Professor Xiong cited various authorities and lively examples to pan a panoramic view of argumentation, scanning each question involved just like an X-ray machine. His speech enlightened the audience by teaching them ways to eradicate logical “fallacies”. Towards the end of the lecture, Professor Xiong answered the questions raised by the enthused audience.
Professor Xiong Minghui is a PhD Supervisor of Logic Major and of Legal Theory of the Law School at Sun Yat-sen University. He is Deputy Director of the Logic and Cognition Institute at Sun Yat-sen University, Co-PhD Adviser of Artificial Intelligence and Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, a member of the Editorial Board of Argumentation, an executive member of the Chinese Association of Logic, and Deputy Director of the Member Working Committee under the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence. Professor Xiong’s lecture is a very inspiring to the faculty and students of Jiangsu University, who will become more interested in logic, argumentation and critical thinking. (School of Foreign Languages)
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