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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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36A 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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65Probative 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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20Teaching Well vs. Teaching for Critical ThinkingInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 1 (1): 4-5. 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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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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30An 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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