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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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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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152Argumentation as Rational PersuasionArgumentation 26 (1): 71-81. 2012.I argue that argumentation is not to be identified with (attempted) rational persuasion, because although rational persuasion appears to consist of arguments, some uses of arguments are not attempts at rational persuasion. However, the use of arguments in argumentative communication to try to persuade is one kind of attempt at rational persuasion. What makes it rational is that its informing ideal is to persuade on the basis of adequate grounds, grounds that make it reasonable and rational to ac…Read more
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65Norms and Functions in Public Sphere ArgumentationInformal Logic 25 (2): 139-150. 2005.This paper is a commentary on the articles by William Rehg and Robert Asen in this issue of Informal Logic. It compares the subject matter of the two papers, offers an interpretation of and commentary on each paper separately, then discusses their overlapping problematic: the importance of public sphere argumentation
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195Informal Logic: An OverviewInformal Logic 20 (2). 2000.In this overview article, we first explain what we take informal logic to be, discussing misconceptions and distinguishing our conception of it from competing ones; second, we briefly catalogue recent informal logic research, under 14 headings; third, we suggest four broad areas of problems and questions for future research; fourth, we describe current scholarly resources for informal logic; fifth, we discuss three implications of informal logic for philosophy in particular, and take note ofprac…Read more
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1The recent development of informal logicInformal Logic: The First International Symposium. forthcoming.
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84The Limits of the Dialogue Model of ArgumentArgumentation 12 (2): 325-339. 1997.The paper's thesis is that dialogue is not an adequate model for all types of argument. The position of Walton is taken as the contrary view. The paper provides a set of descriptions of dialogues in which arguments feature in the order of the increasing complexity of the argument presentation at each turn of the dialogue, and argues that when arguments of great complexity are traded, the exchanges between arguers are turns of a dialogue only in an extended or metaphorical sense. It argues that m…Read more
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52A List of Trudy Govier's PublicationsInformal Logic 33 (2): 332-341. 2013.The Editors thank Ken Peacock for his assistance
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1Relevance, Acceptability, and Sufficiency TodayAnthropology 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
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Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Argumentation. Volumes 1A and 1BPhilosophy and Rhetoric 27 (2): 163-169. 1994.
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27D. N. Walton, Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive ReasoningArgumentation 13 (3): 338-343. 1999.
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2Argumentation and its Applications, CD-ROM (edited book)Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. 2002.
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20In “Are conductive arguments possible?” Jonathan Adler argued that conductive argu-ments are not possible because they are committed to two incompatible propositions: C is reached without nullifying the counter-considerations; C is accepted is true, which issues in belief, so C is detached from these premises. This paper offers an analysis and an assessment of Adler’s case for his thesis.
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43Informal Logic’s Influence on Philosophy InstructionInformal Logic 26 (3): 259-286. 2006.Informal logic began in the 1970s as a critique of then-current theoretical assumptions in the teaching of argument analysis and evaluation in philosophy departments in the U.S. and Canada. The last 35 years have seen significant developments in informal logic and critical thinking theory. The paper is a pilot study of the influence of these advances in theory on what is taught in courses on argument analysis and critical thinking in U.S. and Canadian philosophy departments. Its finding, provisi…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |