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Beginning with my 1999 account in The Philosophy of Argument, this essay explores views about adversariality in argument. Although my distinction between minimal and ancillary adversariality is widely accepted, there are flaws in my defense of the claim that all arguments exhibit minimal adversariality and in a lack of sensitivity to aspects of gender and culture. Further discussions of minimal adversariality, including those of Scott Aikin, John Casey, Katharina Stevens and Daniel Cohen, are discussed. The claim that all argument are adversarial in at least a minimal sense is defended due to its connection with arguers’ intent to support their conclusions.
Keywords: argument, adversariality, dialogue, feminism, politeness, culture
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The world changed. More than ever information gains a strategic role in professional contexts. Organizations are told that they will not survive in the modern era without a strategy for managing and leveraging value from information (extended to knowledge). This means that organizations must change the way information is managed, from a “housekeeping” style to a transversal mode, similar to how Human Resources, Finance, or Information Technology departments. This paper recommends some actions to make information/knowledge management an asset to be measured and with an impact on career development. It is a qualitative analysis resulting from an exploratory literature review and its comparison with working experience and observation in the last 15 years as an information manager. Via this combination, it was possible to approach a different type of intellectual capital investment, resulting in the proposal of creating an information/knowledge ladder strategy followed by a new performance evaluation indicator resulting from the information/knowledge management investments. The key conclusion shows that although information/knowledge management is a key asset for success, it’s necessary to reinforce research and implementation studies in strategies that measure the returns on information/knowledge investments. It’s also fundamental to the role of the academic side, extra engaging with organizations but also investing more in studies and creating new measurement techniques and indicators to be explored by future information professionals, particularly information managers.
Keywords: information/knowledge ladder, information management, information/knowledge culture, information governance
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In Brazil, there are more than 10 million Deaf people. Of these, 2,592 Deaf people are enrolled in Higher Education institutions. This pilot study aims to explore how the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) has studied Deaf people in university libraries. This research uses a mixed methods approach: the first part of the study uses a descriptive approach to present the current state of LIS literature on Deaf users of university libraries. The second part of the research is empirical and consists of a survey that has yet to be fully carried out. It also suggests how the university library can contribute to the empowerment of the deaf community.
Keywords: University Library, Deaf community, Information behaviour
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