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178. Can Capitalism Save Itself? Some Ruminations on the Fate of CapitalismIn John Douglas Bishop (ed.), Ethics and Capitalism, University of Toronto Press. pp. 196-218. 2000.
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28Review of Douglas Walton, Chris Reed, Fabrizio macagno, Argumentation Schemes (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (2). 2009.
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45Hilary Putnam on the End of ArgumentPhilosophica 69 (1): 41-60. 2002.We argue that Hilary Putnam's pragmatism provides an epistemological perspective which can help us understand--and can positively inform--the development of informal logic.
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1Douglas N. Walton, Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (7): 294-296. 1990.
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6Skepsis pflegen: Die sophistische VortragskunstIn Markus Gabriel (ed.), Skeptizismus Und Metaphysik, Akademie Verlag. pp. 221-238. 2011.
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12Protecting One's Own: Hobbes, Realism and DisarmamentPublic Affairs Quarterly 2 (1): 89-107. 1988.
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65What's in a Number? Consequentialism and Employment Equity in Hall, Hurka, Sumner and Baker et alDialogue 35 (2): 359-374. 1996.
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Rebuilding Rawls: An Alternative Theory of JusticeEidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 2
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94Informal LogicStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 1996.Informal logic is an attempt to develop a logic that can assess and analyze the arguments that occur in natural language discourse. Discussions in the field may address instances of scientific, legal, and other technical forms of reasoning, but the overriding aim has been a comprehensive account of argument that can explain and evaluate the arguments found in discussion, debate and disagreement as they manifest themselves in daily life — in social and political commentary; in news reports and ed…Read more
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Ultimacy and a new argument from design: Creationists, evolutionists, and the war about incommensurabilityUltimate Reality and Meaning 22 (4): 307-326. 1999.
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13Some Sources for Hume's Account of CauseJournal of the History of Ideas 52 (4): 645-663. 1991.We show that four central aspects of Hume's account of cause were contained and available to him in the translation of Sextus Empiricus' "Outlines of Pyrrhonism" contained in Thomas Stanley's 1687 _History of Philosophy
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55Parmenides' Timeless Universe, AgainDialogue 26 (3): 549. 1987.The paper defends my thesis that Parmenides' poem contains a critique of time, in answer to Mohan Matthen's criticisms of my views
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18In “Image, Evidence, Argument,” Ian Dove defends an intriguing ‘middle ground’ between those who argue that there are “visual arguments” and skeptics who argue that there are not. I discuss one of Dove’s key examples, proposing a different analysis of it, arguing that there are problems with the “verbal repackaging” of the argument he suggests.
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66Going Multimodal: What is a Mode of Arguing and Why Does it Matter?Argumentation 29 (2): 133-155. 2015.During the last decade, one source of debate in argumentation theory has been the notion that there are different modes of arguing that need to be distinguished when analyzing and evaluating arguments. Visual argument is often cited as a paradigm example. This paper discusses the ways in which it and modes of arguing that invoke non-verbal sounds, smells, tactile sensations, music and other non-verbal entities may be defined and conceptualized. Though some attempts to construct a ‘multimodal’ th…Read more
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51When Two Wrongs Make A RightInformal Logic 5 (1). 1983.CONTEMPORARY TREATMENTS OF INFORMAL FALLACIES TAKE TWO WRONGS REASONING AS A FORM OF FALLACIOUS INFERENCE. I ARGUE THAT SUCH INFERENCES ARE OFTEN VALID AND THAT AN ADEQUATE TREATMENT OF TWO WRONGS ARGUMENTS MUST DISTINGUISH VALID AND INVALID ARGUMENTS, RATHER THAN REJECT THEM OUT OF HAND
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12The Skeptical Tradition Myles Burnyeat, editor Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983. Pp. 450. $38.50 cloth: $10.95 paper (review)Dialogue 24 (4): 746-. 1985.
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