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90Hilary 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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2Douglas N. Walton, Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (7): 294-296. 1990.
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89Some 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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97Parmenides' 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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186Affirmative action as a form of restitutionJournal of Business Ethics 9 (3). 1990.Though the common sense defense of affirmative action (or employment equity) appeals to principles of restitution, philosophers have tried to defend it in other ways. In contrast, I defend it by appealing to the notion of restitution, arguing (1) that alternative attempts to justify affirmative action fail; and (2) that ordinary affirmative action programs need to be supplemented and amended in keeping with the principles this suggests.
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