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John Anthony Blair

University of Windsor
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Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
  •  7
    Informal Logic and Logic
    Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 16 (29). 2009.
  •  6
    Critical Thinking as an Educational Ideal
    Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 1 (2): 4-4. 1988.
    Informal Logic
  •  6
    Commentary on Rooney
  •  5
    From the Editors
    with Christopher W. Tindale
    Informal Logic 38 (2): 246-246. 2018.
    The last number of _Informal Logic_, Vol. 37, No. 3, was devoted to a discussion by five scholars of various aspects of Harald Wohlrapp’s book, _The Concept of Argument_, detailing its innovative features and exploring some of the questions raised by his account. In this issue, we are pleased to provide Professor Wohlrapp’s extensive responses to those papers. He here elaborates further on the approach he takes to the study of argument, clarifying a number of points that were raised and replying…Read more
    Informal Logic
  •  3
    From the Editors
    with Christopher W. Tindale
    Informal Logic 37 (4): 246-246. 2017.
    The last number of Informal Logic, Vol. 37, No. 3, was devoted to a discussion by five scholars of various aspects of Harald Wohlrapp’s book, The Concept of Argument, detailing its innovative features and exploring some of the questions raised by his account. In this issue, we are pleased to provide Professor Wohlrapp’s extensive responses to those papers. He here elaborates further on the approach he takes to the study of argument, clarifying a number of points that were raised and replying to …Read more
    Informal Logic
  •  2
    Argumentation and its Applications, CD-ROM (edited book)
    with Hans V. Hansen, Christopher W. Tindale, Ralph H. Johnson, and Robert C. Pinto
    Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. 2002.
    Informal Logic
  •  2
    Informal Logic: The First International Symposium
    with Ralph H. Johnson
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 14 (4): 251-253. 1981.
    Informal Logic
  •  1
    Argumentation Illuminated
    with Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, and Charles A. Willard
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 27 (2): 169-172. 1994.
    Informal Logic
  •  1
    Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory: A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments
    with Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Ralph H. Johnson, and Erik C. W. Krabbe
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 31 (1): 71-74. 1998.
  •  1
    The recent development of informal logic
    with Ralph H. Johnson
    Informal Logic: The First International Symposium. forthcoming.
    Informal Logic
  •  1
    Relevance, Acceptability, and Sufficiency Today
    Anthropology and Philosophy 8 (1-2): 33-48. 2007.
    In Logical Self-Defense , Johnson and I introduced the criteria of acceptability, relevance and sufficiency as appropriate for the evaluation of arguments in the sense of reasons offered in support of a claim. These three criteria have been widely adopted, but each has been subjected to a number of criticisms; and also 30 years of research have intervened. How do these criteria stand up today? In this paper I argue that they still have a place in argument analysis and evaluation, but in much-mod…Read more
    Informal Logic
  • Perspectives and Approaches, Analysis and Evaluation, Reconstruction and Application, Special Fields and Cases
    with Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, and Charles A. Willard
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 31 (2): 170-173. 1998.
  • The Critical Thinking Anthology (edited book)
    . 2021.
  • Argumentation: Across the Lines of Discipline, Proceedings of the Conference on Argumentation 1986
    with Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, and Charles A. Willard
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 23 (1): 70-75. 1990.
    Informal Logic
  • Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Argumentation. Volumes 1A and 1B
    with Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, and Charles A. Willard
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 27 (2): 163-169. 1994.
    Informal Logic
  • A Bibliography of Recent Work in Informal Logic
    with Ralph H. Johnson
    Informal Logic: The First International Symposium 56 163. 1980.
    Informal Logic
  • Conductive Argument: A New Type of Defeasible Reasoning (edited book)
    with Ralph H. Johnson
    College Publications. 2011.
  • Review of (Walton, 1996) (review)
    Argumentation 13 338-343. 1999.
    Photography
  • New Essays in Informal Logic
    with Ralph H. Johnson
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 31 (2): 164-167. 1998.
    Informal Logic
  • From the Editors
    with Christopher W. Tindale
    Informal Logic 38 (1): 246. 2018.
    The last number of _Informal Logic_, Vol. 37, No. 3, was devoted to a discussion by five scholars of various aspects of Harald Wohlrapp’s book, _The Concept of Argument_, detailing its innovative features and exploring some of the questions raised by his account. In this issue, we are pleased to provide Professor Wohlrapp’s extensive responses to those papers. He here elaborates further on the approach he takes to the study of argument, clarifying a number of points that were raised and replying…Read more
    Informal Logic