curriculum vitae - University of Windsor

CURRICULUM VITAE
Christopher W. Tindale
Department of Philosophy
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario
N9B 3P4
519-253-3000, ext.2397
[email protected]
DEGREES:
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
University of Waterloo. 1986.
University of Waterloo. 1979.
Wilfrid Laurier University. 1977.
Research Areas:
Argumentation Theory, Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Rhetoric.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
July 2011 University of Windsor, Director: Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation
and Rhetoric
July 2006 University of Windsor; Department of Philosophy: Professor.
Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric: Fellow.
July 2004 - June 2006: Chair, Department of Ancient History and Classics.
July 2003 – June 2004: Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy.
1999 - 2006: Trent University, Department of Philosophy: Professor.
1991- 1999: Trent University, Department of Philosophy: Associate Professor.
(Tenure July, 1991)
1989-91:
Trent University, Department of Philosophy:
Assistant Professor.
1988-89:
Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Philosophy: Assistant Professor, Full
Time.
1986-88:
University of Waterloo, Dept. of Philosophy: Assistant Professor -Part time; &
Wilfrid Laurier University, Dept. of Philosophy: Part Time.
1984-86:
Trent University, Dept. of Philosophy: Full-time Sessional.
1981-84:
Wilfrid Laurier University, Dept. of Philosophy: Part-time instructor.
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Adjunct Professor:
June, 2011: PhD program, Argumentation, Italian University of Switzerland, Lugano,
Switzerland.
Visiting Professor:
May, 2012 Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
July 2009 – June 2010: Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Research Fellow:
October 2001 - August 2002: Research Fellow, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research,
University of Bielefeld, Germany. Project: Conflict Resolution.
SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Consultant: External Content Reviewer, Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), February 1,
2009-June 30, 2012.
Editorial Work:
2000 - present: Co-Editor: Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice.
2001- present: Editorial Board: Controversia.
2007 – 2010: Editorial Board: Argumentation and Advocacy
2007- present: Editorial Board: The Review of Communication.
2008 – present: Editorial Board: Philosophy and Rhetoric.
2009- present: Editorial Board: Revista Iberoamericana de Argumentación
2009 – present: Editorial Board: Cogency: Journal of Reasoning and Argumentation.
2011 – present: Editorial Board: Argumentation.
Paper Referee (1989-2012):
Argumentation; Informal Logic; Controversia; Teaching and Learning; Dialogue; De Philosophia;
Ancient Philosophy; Eidos; American Journal of Philosophy; Social Theory and Practice;
Language & Linguistics; Philosophy and Rhetoric, Philosophical Psychology, Journal of
Multicultural Discourses, Journal of Pragmatics; Argumentation and Advocacy; Polity; Synthese;
Philosophical Papers, Social Semiotics, Revista Iberoamericana de Argumentación.
Ontario Philosophical Society Meetings 1999, 1993, 1991, 1990
Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings 2008, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1993, 1992,
1991, 1990, 1989.
International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA): 2006 conference (Fallacy Theme
papers).
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Referee, Grant Applications:
SSHRC, 2007; 2001; 2000; 1999; 1998; 1997; 1996; 1994; 1993. Killam Fellowship, 2010; York
University Research Development Fellowship, 1998; Dutch Council of the Humanities (2004).
Reviewer Book Manuscripts:
Southern Illinois University Press, University of South Carolina Press; Springer-Verlag; McGillQueen’s Press; MIT Press; Cambridge University Press; Kluwer Academic Publishers; State
University of New York Press; Broadview Press; University of Alabama Press; Gordon & Breach
(U.K.); Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; Wilfrid Laurier University Press; Aid to Scholarly
Publications Programme of the HSSFC; Prentice-Hall; and McClelland & Stewart Publishers, Penn
State University Press.
Reviewed Book Chapter for Argumentation and Computation (August, 2000).
2012: Co-organizer: Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences, Windsor (Ontario) April 20-21.
2011: Co-organizer: Argumentation, Cognition and Community, Windsor (Ontario), June.
2009: Co-organizer: Argument Cultures. Windsor, Ontario (June 3-6).
2007: Co-organizer: Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground. Windsor, Ontario. Prepared
successful SSHRC grant application.
2003: Co-organizer (with Hansen, Blair, and Johnson, Conference Organization:
University of Windsor): Informal Logic @ 25. Windsor, May 14-17. Co-prepared successful
SSHRC grant application.
2001: Co-organizer (with Hansen, Blair, and Johnson, University of Windsor): Argumentation and
its Applications. Windsor, May 15-17. Prepared successful SSHRC grant application.
1999: Co-organizer (with Hans Hansen, Brock): 'Argumentation at the Century's Turn'. International
conference, Brock University, May. Prepared successful SSHRC funding application for this.
1997: Co-organizer (with Hansen, Brock) 'Argumentation and Rhetoric' International conference
Brock university, May. Prepared successful SSHRC funding application for this.
1995: 'Argumentation and Education'. International conference sponsored by the Ontario Society for
the Study of Argumentation (OSSA): co-organizer with Hans V. Hansen (Brock).
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS and Forthcoming:
“Models of communicative efficiency,” in Theories and Models of Communication, Volume 1 of the
Handbooks of Communication Science (Chapter 9), Paul Cobley and Peter Schulz (Eds.)
Netherlands: De Gruyter Mouton Press.
“The Words of Other People: the fundamental role of testimony in rhetorical argumentation” in
Verbal and visual rhetoric in a media world, Hilde van Belle, et al (Eds) Leiden: University of
Leiden Press.
“The Force of the Better Argument: Rhetoric’s Role in Informal Logic,” Keynote Address:
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Conference in Logic, Argumentation and Critical Thinking III, Santiago, Chile, 8-11 January 2013.
“Rhétorique, argumentation et l’adaptation des moyens utilisés pour persuader,” Translated by Michel
Dufor. Forthcoming, 2012, Paris: CNRS.
“The Use and Force of Rhetorical Strategies in Riel’s First Speech,” in Hans V. Hansen (Ed) Riel’s
Defense: Perspectives on His Speeches. McGll-Queen’s Press, forthcoming.
Rhetoric’s Contributions to the Study of Argumentation. Special Issue of Philosophy and
Rhetoric, Edited by Ralph H. Johnson & Christopher W. Tindale. Forthcoming, 2013.
“Rhetorical Invention and the Modification of Cognitive Environments,” in Etudes sur
l'épistémologie de la rhétorique, edited by Victor Ferry, Guylaine Martel and Loïc Nicolas.
Québec, Q.C.: Nota Bene, 2012 .
“Reconstructing and Evaluating Social Policy Argumentation: The Human Embryonic Stem-Cell
Research Debate in Canada and Germany and its Implications for Abortion and Euthanasia.”
Joint research project (2008-2010) with Harald Wohlrapp, University of Hamburg. Supported by
a Humboldt Foundation Grant.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books & Monographs:
Einführung in die Informelle Logik. Fernuniversität. Translated (from original English text)
Thomas Keutner. mentis Verlag GmbH: Germany. Forthcoming 2012 (198pp.).
Good Reasoning Matters! Fifth Edition (with Leo Groarke). Toronto: Oxford University Press
Canada. Forthcoming, 2012. [First edition of GRM (with Leo Groarke & J. Frederick Little).
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Co., Ltd., 1989. Second Expanded Edition (with Leo Groarke and
Linda Fisher). Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada. December, 1996; Third Expanded Edition
(with Leo Groarke ). Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada. February, 2004. Fourth Edition,
February 2008.]
Reason’s Dark Champions: Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument. University of South
Carolina Press, 2010.
Fallacies and Argument Appraisal. Cambridge University Press. February 2007.
Rhetorical Argumentation: Principles of Theory and Practice. Sage Publications. June, 2004.
Acts of Arguing: A Rhetorical Model of Argument. State University of New York Press, 1999.
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Informal Logic: A Prolegomenon to Good Argument, (with Leo Groarke). Indiana: Wyndham Hall
Press, 1985. Monograph.
Editor: Books/CDs/Journal Issues:
Dialectics, Dialogue and Argumentation: An Examination of Douglas Walton’s Theories of
Reasoning and Argument. Chris Reed and Christopher W. Tindale (Eds.) London: College
Publications (May, 2010).
Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground (Conference Proceedings). Edited (with Hans V.
Hansen, et.al.). Windsor, ON: OSSA. August 2007.
Informal Logic @ 25 (Conference Proceedings). Edited (with J. Anthony Blair, et.al.). Windsor,
Ontario: OSSA. December, 2003.
Argumentation and Its Applications. (Conference Proceedings). Edited (with J. Anthony Blair,
et.al.). Windsor, Ontario: OSSA. December, 2003.
Argumentation at the Century=s Turn. CD-Rom. Edited and produced with Hans V. Hansen &
Elmer Sveda. St. Catharines, Ontario: OSSA, 2000.
Argumentation & Rhetoric. CD-Rom. Edited and produced with Hans V. Hansen & Athena Colman
(Brock). St. Catharines, Ontario: OSSA, August, 1998.
Rhetorical Considerations in the Study of Argumentation. Guest -editor with Hans V. Hansen.
Special Issue of Argumentation, 12 (May 1998).
Argumentation and Education: Proceedings of the 1995 Conference of the Ontario Society of the
Study of Argumentation (OSSA)' Co-editor (with Hans V. Hansen) Special Issue of Informal Logic.
Vol 17. No.2, (1995).
Applied Philosophy: A Critical Appraisal. (Guest Editor) Eidos 7 (1988). [Appeared August, 1989.]
Papers:
“Out of the Space of Reasons: Argumentation, Agents and Persons,” Pragmatic and Cognition. 19.3.
(2011):383-398.
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“Introduction” to Groundwork in the Theory of Argumentation: Selected Papers of J. Anthony Blair.
Dordrecht, NL: Springer. 2o11.
“The Emotions’ Impact on Audience Judgments and Decision-Making in Aristotle’s Rhetoric” (with
Andreas Welzel) in Topical Themes, Frans van Eemeren & Bart Garssen (Eds.) Springer (2011) [In
press]
“Character and Knowledge: Learning from the Speech of Experts,” Argumentation. 25.3 (2011):341353.
“Ways of Being Reasonable: Perelman and the Philosophers,” Philosophy & Rhetoric, 43.4.
(2010):337-361.
“Global Governance, Argumentation and Diversity,” in Arguing Global Governance: Agency,
Lifeworld and Shared Reasoning. Corneliu Bjola & Markus Kornprobst (Eds.) Routledge (Sept.
2010):141-156.
“Walton and the Tradition of Plausibility Arguments,” in Dialectics, Dialogue and Argumentation:
An Examination of Douglas Walton’s Theories of Reasoning and Argument. Chris Reed and
Christopher W. Tindale (Eds.) London: College Publications (May, 2010): 227-238.
“Introduction,” (with Chris Reed) in Dialectics, Dialogue and Argumentation: An Examination of
Douglas Walton’s Theories of Reasoning and Argument. Chris Reed and Christopher W. Tindale
(Eds.) London: College Publications (June, 2010):9-15.
“Two-fold Arguments,” in Meaning, Content and Argument, Jesus M. Larrazabal & Larraitz
Zubledia (Eds.) Bilbao: University of the Basque Country Press, 2009:89-108.
« L’argumentation rhétorique et le problème de l’auditoire complexe », Sivan Cohen-Wiesenfeld
(Trans.) Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, n° 2 | 2009, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 01 avril 2009.
URL : http://aad.revues.org/index493.html. Consulté le 01 avril 2009. (16 pp.)
“Rhetoric” in The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Pragmatics, Louise Cummings (ed.), 2009.
“La Falacia y la Apelación a la Autoridad” [“Fallaciousness and the Appeal to Authority], in De Las
Falacias: Argumentación y Comunicación, Cristian Santibanez and Roberto Marafioti (Trans.)
Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2008:151-72.
“Revisiting Aristotle’s Topoi,” in Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground, CD-Rom. Hans V.
Hansen, et. Al. (eds.) Windsor, ON: OSSA, 2007: 15pp.
“On Fallacy,” in Reason Reclaimed. R.C. Pinto & H.V. Hansen (eds.). Newport News, VA: Vale
Press, 2007: 155-170.
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“Textual Allusion as Rhetorical Argumentation: Gorgias, Plato and Isocrates,” in Proceedings of the
Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Frans. H. van
Eemeren, et. al., (eds.) Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2007: 1359-1363.
“Fallacies as Violations of Rationality Norms: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” (with Andreas
Welzel) in Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of
Argumentation, Frans. H. van Eemeren, et. al., (eds.) Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2007: 1483-1489.
“Constrained Maneuvering: Rhetoric as a Rational Enterprise,” Argumentation 20, 2006: 447-466.
[Revised 2009, in Examining Argumentation in Context, F.H. van Eemeren & B. Garssen (Eds.)
Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 41-59.]
“Perelman, Informal Logic and the Historicity of Reason,” Informal Logic 26 (2), 2006: 341-357.
“Tragic Choices: Reaffirming Absolutes in the Torture Debate,” International Journal of Applied
Philosophy. 19 (2), 2005: 209-222. [Reprinted abridgement, 2010 in Taking Sides: Clashing Views
on Moral Issues. 12e. Stephen Satris [Ed.] New York: McGraw-Hill: 301-312.
“Power and Force in Argumentation,” Controversia. vol. 3, No.2, 2005:63-90.
[Reprinted, 2009 in Discourse, Debate and Democracy, D. Cratis Williams & M.J. Young (Eds.)
New York: Idebate Press, pp.79-108.]
“The Truth about Orangutans: Defending Acceptability” in Informal Logic @ 25. J. Anthony Blair,
et.al. (Eds.). Windsor, Ontario: OSSA. December, 2003:pp.10.
“Rhetorical Argumentation and the New Journalism: A Case Study,”(with S. Ward, Journalism,
UBC). Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the
Study of Argumentation. Frans van Eemeren, et. al. (Eds.) University of Amsterdam: Sic
Sat.:2003.
“Hearing is Believing: A Perspective-Dependent Account of the Fallacies” in Proceedings of
the Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of
Argumentation. Frans van Eemeren et. al. (Eds.) University of Amsterdam: Sic Sat.:2003.
[Revised version published in 2005 as “Hearing is Believing: A Perspective-dependent View
of the Fallacies,” in Argumentative Practice. Frans van Eemeren & Peter Houtlosser (Eds.).
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.pp.29-42.]
“A Concept Divided: Johnson’s Definition of Argument” Argumentation, vol. 16, No.3, 2002: 299309. [Reprinted in Readings in Argumentation. Strata Publishing, 2008.]
“Bakhtin’s Concept of Argument,” in Remembering M.M. Bakhtin. B.V. Emeljanov, O.B. Jonajtis
and D.A. Olshansky (eds). Yekaterinburg: Urals State University, 2000:45-52.
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"Bakhtin and the Rhetorics of Argument," In Emerging Rhetorics, Edited by Willian E. Tanner,
Stephen Souris, & Alfred G. Littori. Texas: North Texas Women=s University.(2000). CD Rom.
"The Authority of Testimony," ProtoSociology: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary
Research, (vol 13, 1999):96-116.
"Arguing for Bakhtin," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Argumentation,
Amsterdam: SicSat, (1999):786-790.
"The Importance of Rhetoric for Argumentation". This essay serves as the Introduction for
Argumentation & Rhetoric (above). Hans V. Hansen, C.W. Tindale & Athena Colman (Eds.) St.
Catharines, Ontario: OSSA, (1998).
"Fallacies in Transition: An Assessment of the Pragma-Dialectical Perspective" Informal Logic:
Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice. Vol 18, No.1 (1996):17-33.
"The Logic of Torture: A Critical Examination" Social Theory and Practice. Vol. 22, No.3
(1996):349-374.
"Fallacies, Blunders, and Dialogue Shifts: Walton's Contributions to the Fallacy Debate,"
Argumentation. Vol. 11, No.3 (August 1997):341-354.
"From Syllogisms to Audiences: The Prospects for Logic in a Rhetorical Model of Argumentation,"
in Practical Reasoning, Dov. M. Gabbay & Hans Jurgen Ohlbach, eds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag,
1996:596-605.
"Walton and the Standard Treatment," in Analysis and Evaluation: Proceedings of the Third
International Conference on Argumentation, Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, J.A. Blair
and Charles Willard, Eds. Amsterdam: SicSat, 1995:274-85.
"Contextual Relevance in Argumentation," in New Essays of Informal Logic. R.H. Johnson and J.A.
Blair eds. Windsor: Informal Logic Publications, 1994:67-81.
"Totipotency and the Value of Embryonic Cells" Journal of Value Inquiry 28 (1994):519-528.
"Reasonableness and the Limits to Persuasion," The Canadian Journal of Rhetorical Studies 3
(1993):133-148.
"Public Attitudes and the Treatment of Neomorts," in Philosophy and Health Care, Eric Matthews &
Michael Menlowe eds, Aldershot, Hants.: Avebury/Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1992:135-154.
"Audiences, Relevance and Cognitive Environments," Argumentation 6 (1992):177-188.
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"Audiences and Acceptable Premises: Epistemic and Logical Conditions," Proceedings of the
Second ISSA International Conference on Argumentation. Frans van Eemeren et al. eds,
Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 1991:288-295.
"Philosophy, Alcohol and Liberty," Health Futures: Alcohol and Drugs, Douglas J. McCready ed.,
WLU: Interdisciplinary Research 1991:21-27.
"The Nature and Value of Applied Philosophy," Eidos 7 (1988):123-135.
"The Role of Language in the Acquisition of New Concepts," Proceedings of The Husserl Circle.
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier, (1988):299-311.
"Logic and Rhetoric: Groundwork for a Synthesis," (with Leo Groarke), Argumentation:
Perspectives and Approaches, Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, J. Anthony Blair, and
Charles A. Willard eds., Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications, 1987:274-82.
"The Use of Irony in Argumentation," (with James Gough), Philosophy and Rhetoric 20 (1987):117.
"Critical Thinking: How to Teach Good Reasoning," (with Leo Groarke), Teaching Philosophy 9
(1986):301-318.
"'Hidden' or 'Missing' Premises," (with James Gough), Informal Logic, VII (1985):99-106.
"Plato's Lysis: A Reconsideration," Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science 18
(1984):102-107.
Reviews:
“Review of Michael Mendelson’s Many Sides: A Protagorean Approach to the Theory, Practice,
and Pedagogy of Argument,” in Informal Logic, vol 23, No. 2, (appeared Spring 2005):201-05.
“Review of Makau & Marty’s Cooperative Argumentation: A Model for Deliberative
Community,” Argumentation, 17: 257-261, 2003.
“Review of James Warren’s Epicurus and Democritean Ethics” Philosophy in Review, vol.
XXIII No.3:227-29, 2003.
“Review of Levi’s In Defence of Informal Logic” Informal Logic, vol. 21, No.2, 2001: 183-85.
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“Review of Brisson’s Plato the Myth Maker,” Philosophy in Review, vol. XXII, No.3, June, 2002:
164-65.
"Review of Arguments from Ignorance". Philosophy & Rhetoric, 30, No.1 (1997):97-101.
"Review of If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas? And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health
Care." in Health and Canadian Society, Vol.3, Nos.1&2 (1995):243-245..
"Logical Architecture: A Review of Building Arguments" Informal Logic 15 (1993): 69-71.
"Review of John Fowles's Fiction and the Poetics of Postmodernism" Modern Fiction Studies 39
(1993): 403-406.
"Review of Chaim Perelman's The Realm of Rhetoric," Eidos III (1984):216-224.
CONFERENCE PAPERS, INVITED TALKS, AND KEYNOTE ADDRESSES:
“Expert Arguments and Rhetorical Proofs,” Department of Philosophy, McMaster University,
February 10, 2012.
“Rhetoric’s Presence,” Martin Wesley Lecture, University of Windsor, January, 2012.
“Real Arguments on Deep Issues: Spaemann on Embryos and Persons,” Analyzing (Real)
Arguments Conference, University of Hamburg, July 4-6, 2011.
“The Sense of Energeia in Aristotle’s Rhetoric,” Classical Association of Canada meeting,
Halifax, May, 20111.
“The Words of Other People: The Fundamental Role of Testimony in Rhetorical
Argumentation.” Keynote Address: Rhetoric in Society, Antwerp, January, 2011.
“Being Apostrophic.” NCA, San Francisco, November, 2010.
“Riel’s Speeches and the Classical Tradition.” Riel Conference, Windsor, October, 2010.
“Rhetoric, Argumentation, and the Available Means of Persuasion.” Paris, CNRS, September
2010.
“Brandom, Grice, and the Role of a Theory of Meaning.” 7th Conference of the International Society for the Stud
of Argumentation, Amsterdam, July 1, 2010.
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“The Emotions’ Impact on Audience Judgments and Decision-Making in Aristotle’s Rhetoric.”
(with Andreas Welzel, Universität Bielefeld). 7th Conference of the International Society for the
Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam, July 2, 2010.
“On Persuasion,” Department Colloquium. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, May, 2010.
“Two-Fold Arguments,” Invited Lecture, International Workshop on Semantics, Pragmatics, and
Rhetoric, ILCLI, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, May 6, 2009.
“Rhetoric through Philosophical Lenses: Perelman's Reception among the Philosophers,”
Madrid, April 29, 2009.
“Transforming Fallacies,” NCA, San Diego, November, 2008.
“Argumentation and the Management of Diversity,” Invited paper, ‘Arguing Global Governance’
Workshop, Department of International Politics, Oxford University, June 2008.
“Ways of Being Reasonable,” Keynote address: ‘Promise of Reason: The New Rhetoric After Fifty
Years’, University of Oregon, May 2008.
“Point to Point: Toward a Chorography of Reason,” NCA, Chicago, November, 2007.
“Revisiting Aristotle’s Topoi,” Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground, OSSA. Windsor,
Ontario, June 2007.
“Sophistical Refutations and Their Counterpart,” Classical Association of Canada, Memorial
University, Newfoundland, May 2007.
“Constrained Maneuvering: Rhetoric as a Rational Activity,” Invited Paper: Agnes van Rees
Conference, Amsterdam, October 2006.
“Textual Allusions as Rhetorical Argumentation: Gorgias, Plato and Isocrates,” International Society
for the Study of Argumentation Conference, Amsterdam: June 2006.
“Fallacies as Violations of Rationality Norms: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” (with Andreas
Welzel) International Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference, Amsterdam: June 2006.
“The Dark Rites of Plato’s Socrates,” Classical Association of Canada, Toronto: May 2006.
“Judging Coherence,” National Communication Association, Boston: November 2005
“Sophisms and Fallacies,” International Pragmatics Association, Riva del Garda, Italy, July
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2005.
“Comments on ‘Pre-Aristotelian Theories of Argument: Isocratean Vocabulary and Practice,”
‘Use of Argument’ Conference, McMaster University, May 2005.
“Comments on ‘Arguing for the Ethics of an Ad: An Application of Multi-Modal Argumentation
Theory’,” ‘Use of Argument’ Conference, McMaster University, May 2005.
“A Question of Appearance: Weak and Strong Arguments at Rhet. 1402a23" Classical
Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Banff, May 2005.
“The Argumentative Situation,” National Communication Association, Chicago: November
2004.
“Socrates’ Ad Misericordiam” Ontario Philosophical Society, Waterloo, Ontario: October 2002.
“From Argumentation to Bargaining: The Role of Ethotic Moves,” (with Andreas Welzel).
Conflict Resolution Project, Closing Conference: University of Bielefeld, August 14, 2002.
“Argumentation Theory and Conflict Resolution,” (with J. Anthony Blair). Conflict Resolution
Project, Closing Conference: University of Bielefeld, August 14, 2002.
“Hearing is Believing: A Perspective-Dependent Account of the Fallacies” Fifth International
Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. University of
Amsterdam, June 29, 2002.
“Rhetorical Argumentation and the New Journalism: A Case Study,” (with S. Ward, Journalism,
UBC). Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of
Argumentation. University of Amsterdam, June 28, 2002.
“A Basic Approach to Argumentation”. Workshop, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research,
University of Bielefeld, June 21, 2002.
“Power and Force in Argumentation: A Dialogic Response,” Colloquium. Centre for
Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, May 23, 2002.
“The Argumentation Debate in Fifth and Fourth Century Athens,” OPS, Ryerson University,
February 2, 2002.
“Reasoning With the White Queen: Argument and the Intractable Audience,” Centre for
Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, Germany, October 2001. Invited address.
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“Response.” Paper in response to panel papers at a session on my book Acts of Arguing, National
Communication Association Convention, Seattle, November 10, 2001.
“The Reasonable Audience.” Texas Rhetoric Conference, North Texas Women’s University,
February, 2001.
“Interior Design.” At Argumentation and its Applications, Conference. University of Windsor, May
17, 2001.
“Informal Logic and the Dialogic Turn,” Paper presented at the meetings of the Central States
Communication Association, Detroit, April, 2000.
“Bakhtin and the Rhetorics of Argument,” Paper presented at Cyber conference, North Texas
Women's University, May, 1999.
“Comments on James Crosswhite's 'Nature and Reason: Inertia and Argumentation',” at Ontario
Society for the Study of Argumentation conference, Brock University, May, 1999.
"Arguing for Bakhtin," Fourth ISSA International Conference on Argumentation, Amsterdam, June
16-19, 1998.
"A Kiss is Just a Kiss (Except When...): Unpacking Michael Gilbert's Coalescent Argumentation",
Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, University of Ottawa, May 27, 1998.
"Judging Socrates: Three Audiences," Ontario Classical Association, Trent University, April 24,
1998.
Comments on Tony Blair's "The Limits of the Dialogue Model of Argument," Ontario Philosophical
Society meeting, Nov. 1st, 1997, University of Toronto
"The Negative Approach to Teaching Argument: The Case Against Applied Fallacy Theory" 2nd
International Conference on Teaching and Learning Argument, Middlesex University, London,
September 4-6, 1997.
"Argument and Burlesque: Notes on Protagoras and Aristotle," read at the Ontario Philosophical
Society Meeting: Brock, October 1996.
"Habermas and Perelman and the Concept of Argument," read at the Ontario Philosophical Society
meeting: Windsor, October 1995.
"The Standard Treatment of Fallacies," read at the meeting of the Ontario Society for the Study of
Argument (OSSA), October 1994.
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"Walton and the Standard Treatment of Fallacies," read at the 3rd International Conference on
Argumentation, Amsterdam, June 1994 .
"Reasonableness and the Rhetorician's Obligations," Rhetoric Conference, Carleton University,
October 16-18, 1992.
"Relevance and Cognitive Environments," Conference on Relevance, McMaster University, June 1011, 1991.
Commentator: Canadian Philosophical Meetings, Kingston, May 1991.
"Audiences and Acceptable Premises: Epistemic and Logical Conditions," read at the 1990
International Conference on Argumentation -- Amsterdam, June.
"The Speech of Aristodemus: Mediation in the Symposium," read at the Canadian Philosophical
Association's Annual Meeting, Victoria, B.C. June, 1990.
"Public Attitudes and the Treatment of Neomorts" read at the Conference on Health, Economics,
Law and Philosophy, in Aberdeen, Scotland, July 1989.
"Contextual Relevance in Argumentation" read at the Third International Symposium on Informal
Logic, in Windsor, Ontario, June 1989.
"The Use and Abuse of Brain-Dead Cadavers," read at the Canadian Philosophical Association's
Annual Meeting, Windsor, 1988.
"Logic and Rhetoric: Groundwork for a Synthesis," read at the First International Conference on
Argumentation. Amsterdam: June, 1986.
"The Other as 'Enemy': A Direction for Nuclear Criticism," read at the Canadian Philosophical
Association's Annual Meeting, Montreal, 1985.
"Irony and Argument," (with James Gough) read at the Canadian Philosophical Association's Annual
Meeting, Montreal, 1983.
"Comments on 'Derrida's Analysis of Rousseau: The Supplement of Metaphysics,'" read at the
Canadian Philosophical Association's Annual Meeting, Montreal, 1983.
"'Hidden' or 'Missing' Premises," (with James Gough) read at the Second International Symposium
on Informal Logic, Windsor, June, 1983.
May, 2012
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