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27Premissary 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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27Teaching Well vs. Teaching for Critical ThinkingInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 1 (1): 4-5. 1988.
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25D. N. Walton, Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive ReasoningArgumentation 13 (3): 338-343. 1999.
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23Narration as Argument. Paula Olmos, Editor: Springer, Argumentation Library 31, Cham, Switzerland, 2017, xii, pp. 1–234, ISBN: 978-3-319-56882-9Argumentation 33 (1): 137-145. 2019.
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23Teaching the FallaciesArgumentation 37 (2): 247-251. 2023.This paper’s thesis is that the fallacies should not be taught to undergraduates. Besides some bad influences, this is not only because doing so steals time more valuably spent elsewhere, but also because the field is now so complex (overlapping concepts, theories and disciplines), that we lack knowledgeable instructors and sophisticated students. The study of theories involving fallacies, however, remains viable.
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22Critical Review of Arguing With People by Michael GilbertInformal Logic 37 (1): 70-84. 2017.No abstracts for revews.
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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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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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19Teaching Well vs. Teaching for Critical ThinkingInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 1 (1): 4-5. 1988.
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16Rigour and Reason: Essays in Honour of Hans Vilhelm Hansen (edited book)University of Windsor. 2020.Built in the centre of Copenhagen, and noted for its equestrian stairway, the Rundetaarn, was intended as an astronomical observatory. Part of a complex of buildings that once included a university library, it affords expansive views of the city in every direction, towering above what surrounds it. The metaphor of the towering figure, who sees what others might not, whose vantage point allows him to visualize how things fit together, and who has an earned-stature of respect and authority, fits a…Read more
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16Reason 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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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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14The conference theme invites contrasts between objectivity and bias, since the two are commonly considered contraries. But there are a variety of meanings of the two and a corresponding variety of contraries. Thus there is a problem for any attempt to discuss bias and objectivity in relation to argument as a contrasting pair. Still, several senses of both terms relate to argumentation. I offer an inventory of them.
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11Reasoning: A Practical Guide for Canadian StudentsScarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall Canada. 1993.
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8D. N. Walton, Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning (review)Argumentation 13 (3): 338-343. 1999.
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7Anyone Who has a View: Theoretical Contributions to the Study of Argumentation (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003.This volume contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Argumentation by prominent international scholars of argumentation theory. It provides an insightful cross-section of the current state of affairs in argumentation research. It will be of interest to all those working in the field of argumentation theory and to all scholars who are interested in recent developments in this field.
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |