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15The paper aims to provide an analysis and critique of Carl Wellman’s account of conduction presented in Challenge and Response and Morals and Ethics. It considers several issues, including: reason-ing vs. argument, the definition vs. the three patterns of conduction, pro and con arguments as dialogues, their assessment, the concept of validity, applications beyond moral arguments, argument type vs. as crite-rion of evaluation.
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8Reason in the BalanceInformal Logic 32 (4): 454-466. 2012.Book Review Reason in the Balance by Sharon Bailin and Mark Battersby Whitby, ON: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2010. Pp. xiv, 1-349. Softcover ISBN-13: 978-007-007341-8, ISBN-10: 007007341-4 CDN$ 97.95
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81Argument and Its Uses (OSSA 2005 Keynote Address)Informal Logic 24 (2): 137-151. 2004.Do not define argument by its use to persuade. for other uses of arguments exist. An argument is a proposition and a reason for it. and argumentation is an interchange involving two or more parties resulting in the assertion of one or more arguments coupled with anticipated or actual critical responses. A logically good argument has grounds adeq uate for the purposes at hand (true, probable, plausible, acceptable to the audience) and the grounds provide adequate support for the conclusion. The n…Read more
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31Meta-argumentation, An Approach to Logic and Argumentation TheoryInformal Logic 34 (2): 219-239. 2014.By Maurice A. Finocchiaro Studies in Logic, Logic and Argumentation, Vol. 42. London: College Publications, 2013. Pp. vii, 1-279. ISBN 978-1-84890-097-4. UK£12 US$17.10 CDN$21.12.
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76Four Essays on Liberty. By Isaiah Berlin. Oxford University Press. 1969. Pp. lxiii, 213. $2.15Dialogue 9 (2): 266-268. 1970.
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A Bibliography of Recent Work in Informal LogicInformal Logic: The First International Symposium 56 163. 1980.
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118The Current State of Informal LogicInformal Logic 9 (2). 1987.The Current State of Informal Logic
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37A Defense of Conduction: A Reply to AdlerArgumentation 30 (2): 109-128. 2016.In Jonathan Adler argued that conductive arguments, as they are commonly characterized, are impossible—that no such argument can exist. This striking contention threatens to undermine a topic of argumentation theory originated by Trudy Govier based on Carl Wellman and revisited by the papers in “Conductive argument, An overlooked type of defeasible reasoning”. I here argue that Adler’s dismissal of conductive arguments relies on a misreading of the term ‘non-conclusive’ used in the characterizat…Read more
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67Probative Norms for Multimodal Visual ArgumentsArgumentation 29 (2): 217-233. 2015.The question, “What norms are appropriate for the evaluation of the probative merits of visual arguments?” underlies the investigation of this paper. The notions of argument and of multimodal visual argument employed in the study are explained. Then four multimodal visual arguments are analyzed and their probative merits assessed. It turns out to be possible to judge these qualities using the same criteria that apply to verbally expressed arguments. Since the sample is small and not claimed to b…Read more
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6Critical Thinking as an Educational IdealInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 1 (2): 4-4. 1988.
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22Even with Kientpointer's and Walton's valuable work, we do not yet have a complete theory of argument schemes. A complete theory of argument schemes should contain at least the following: its theoretical motivation, the denotation of "argument" or "ar gumentation" used in the theory, an analysis of the concept of an argument scheme, a theory of classification of argument schemes, a solution to the problem of identifying which scheme is correct, and an account of the grounds of the normativity or…Read more
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12Teaching Well vs. Teaching for Critical ThinkingInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 1 (1): 4-5. 1988.
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31An Early Exchange on the Interpretation of Arguments in TextsInformal Logic 36 (1): 83-91. 2016.These letters between Irving Copi and Anthony Blair exchanged in 1981 are of poss ible interest for the history of informal logic.
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28Are there any logical norms for argument evaluation besides soundness and inductive strength? The paper will look at several concepts or models introduced over the years, including those of Wisdom, Toulmin, Wellman, Rescher, defeasible reasoning proponents and Walton to consider whether there is common ground among them that supplies an alternative to deductive validity and inductive strength.
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28Premissary relevanceArgumentation 6 (2): 203-217. 1992.Premissary relevance is a property of arguments understood as speech act complexes. It is explicable in terms of the idea of a premise's lending support to a conclusion. Premissary relevance is a function of premises belonging to a set which authoritatively warrants an inference to a conclusion. An authoritative inference warrant will have associated with it a conditional proposition which is true— that is to say, which can be justified. The study of the Aristotelian doctrine of topoi or argumen…Read more
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10Teaching Well vs. Teaching for Critical ThinkingInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 1 (1): 4-5. 1988.
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Perspectives and Approaches, Analysis and Evaluation, Reconstruction and Application, Special Fields and CasesPhilosophy and Rhetoric 31 (2): 170-173. 1998.
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103Walton's Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning: A Critique and Development (review)Argumentation 15 (4): 365-379. 2001.The aim of the paper is to advance the theory of argument or inference schemes by suggesting answers to questions raised by Walton's Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning (1996), specifically on: the relation between argument and reasoning; distinguishing deductive from presumptive schemes, the origin of schemes and the probative force of their use; and the motivation and justification for their associated critical questions.
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Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
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Epistemology |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |