Announcement: New Board Members


  

As the study of argument continues to spread around the world, we 

note that it has already taken root in the northern Pacific region. The 

Japan Debate Association will hold its 6th quadrennial Tokyo Con-

ference on Argumentation in August 2020. Numerous conferences 

have been held or are planned in China. Informal Logic wishes to 

support this research by welcoming submissions from scholars in the 

Pacific region no less than from those elsewhere in the world. To 

that end, we are appointing two new Editorial Board members from 

the Pacific region. We are fortunate that two respected informal logic 

scholars are available and have agreed to take on the role of promot-

ing informal logic scholarship and its publication in their countries: 

in China, Yun Xie of the Institute of Logic and Cognition at Sun Yat-

Sen University in Guangzhou, and in Japan, Takuzo Konishi of 

Showa Women’s University in Tokyo.