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145On Nicholas of Autrecourt and the Law of Non-ContradictionDialogue 23 (1): 129-134. 1984.According to the standard account of Nicholas' views,his scepticism is constrained by his commitment to the law of non-contradiction as a basis for certain truth. Such an account fails to distinguish the views found in the "Leters to Bernard" and the "Exigit Ordo" the latter clear rejects the law of non-contradiction and propounds a full fledged scepticism
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63Good reasoning matters!: a constructive approach to critical thinkingOxford University Press. 2004.Offering an innovative approach to critical thinking, Good Reasoning Matters! identifies the essential structure of good arguments in a variety of contexts and also provides guidelines to help students construct their own effective arguments. In addition to examining the most common features of faulty reasoning--slanting, bias, propaganda, vagueness, ambiguity, and a common failure to consider opposing points of view--the book introduces a variety of argument schemes and rhetorical techniques. T…Read more
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186Descartes' first meditation: Something old, something new, something borrowedJournal of the History of Philosophy 22 (3): 281-301. 1984.
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31Skepsis pflegen: Die sophistische VortragskunstIn Markus Gabriel (ed.), Skeptizismus und Metaphysik, De Gruyter Akademie Forschung. pp. 221-238. 2011.
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41Protecting One's Own: Hobbes, Realism and DisarmamentPublic Affairs Quarterly 2 (1): 89-107. 1988.
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266Logic, 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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