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7Descartes' first meditation: Something old, something new, something borrowedJournal of the History of Philosophy 22 (3): 281-301. 1984.
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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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Paul Kurtz, The New Skepticism: Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge (review)Philosophy in Review 13 101-103. 1993.
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13Logic, Art and ArgumentInformal Logic 18 (2). 1996.Most infonnallogic texts and articles assume a verbal account of reasoning which defines "argument" as a set of sentences. The present paper broadens this definition in order to account for "visual arguments" which are communicated with nonverbal visual images. Standard approaches to verbal arguments are extended in a way that allows them to explain and evaluate visual argumentation
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7The prodigious development of argumentation theory over the last three decades has raised many issues that challenge some of the long held assumptions that characterize the traditional study of argument. One of these issues is the role of emotion in argument and argument analysis. While rhetoric has, with its emphasis on persuasion, always recognized that emotions play some role determining which arguments we accept and reject, a long tradition sees appeals to emotion as fallacies that violate t…Read more
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3This paper is an in depth discussion of the work on fallacies collected in the "Selected Papers" of Woods and Walton. While it defends many of their claims, it argues that they have not shown that their formal approach should be an integral part of that discipline we now call "informal logic".
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8In the last quarter-century, the emergence of argumentation theory has spurred the development of an extensive literature on the study of argument. It encompasses empirical and theoretical investigations that often have their roots in the different traditions that have studied argument since ancient times – most notably, logic, rhetoric, and dialectics. Against this background, I advocate a “thick” theory of argument that merges traditional theories, weaving together their sometimes discordant a…Read more
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1Review of Douglas Walton, Chris Reed, Fabrizio macagno, Argumentation Schemes (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (2). 2009.
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58. 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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15Hilary 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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3Protecting One's Own: Hobbes, Realism and DisarmamentPublic Affairs Quarterly 2 (1): 89-107. 1988.
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67What'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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11Informal 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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