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The Sophists: Towards a More Sophisticated ViewEidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 4
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19Stewardship gone astray? Ethics and the SAAIn Chris Scarre & Geoffrey Scarre (eds.), The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice, Cambridge University Press. pp. 163--180. 2006.
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4Paul Kurtz, The New Skepticism: Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge (review)Philosophy in Review 13 101-103. 1993.
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84Johnson on the Metaphysics of ArgumentArgumentation 16 (3): 277-286. 2002.This paper responds to two aspects of Ralph Johnson's Manifest Rationality (2000). The first is his critique of deductivism. The second is his failure to make room for some species of argument (e.g., visual and kisceral arguments) proposed by recent commentators. In the first case, Johnson holds that argumentation theorists have adopted a notion of argument which is too narrow. In the second, that they have adopted one which is too broad. I discuss the case Johnson makes for both claims, and pos…Read more
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168Deductivism Within Pragma-DialecticsArgumentation 13 (1): 1-16. 1999.The present paper elaborates a deductivist account of natural language argu-ment in the context of pragma-dialectics. It reviews earlier debates, criticizes some standard misconceptions in the literature, and argues that the identification and analysis of deductive argument schemes can be the basis of a compelling theory of argumentative discourse
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139What'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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