Publications
Journal Articles
- 2009. 'The importance of belief in argumentation: belief, commitment and the effective resolution of a difference of opinion,' Synthese, forthcoming. [abstract]
Official version available at Springer Online First:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-008-9398-3
- 2009. Godden and Griffin. ‘Psychologism and the development of Russell’s account of propositions,’ History and Philosophy of Logic, 30(2), 2009, pp. 171-186. [abstract]
- 2008. ‘On common knowledge and ad populum: Acceptance as grounds for acceptability,’ Philosophy and Rhetoric, 41(2), 2008, pp. 101-129. [abstract]
- 2008. Godden and Walton. 'Defeasibility in judicial opinion: Logical or procedural?' Informal Logic, 28(1), 2008, pp. 5-15. [abstract]
- 2007. Godden and Walton. 'A theory of presumption for everyday argumentation,' Pragmatics and Cognition, 15(2), 2007, pp. 313-346. [abstract]
- 2007. Godden and Walton. 'Advances in the theory of argumentation schemes and critical questions,' Informal Logic, 27(3), 2007, pp. 267-292. [abstract]
- 2006. ‘Departmental boundaries within the corporate body of theory: Quine on the holistic foundations of logic,’ Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 45(3), 2006, pp. 505-528. [abstract]
available online through Cambridge UP Journals Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300001037
- 2006. Godden and Walton. ‘Argument from expert opinion as legal evidence: Critical questions and admissibility criteria of expert testimony in the American legal system,’ Ratio Juris, 19(3), 2006, pp. 261-286. [abstract]
- 2005. ‘Psychologism in the logic of John Stuart Mill: Mill on the subject matter and foundations of ratiocinative logic,’ History and Philosophy of Logic, 26(2), 2005, pp. 115-143. [abstract]
This paper is featured in Martin Kusch's (2007) entry for psychologism in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- 2005. ‘Deductivism as an interpretive strategy: A reply to Groarke’s defense of reconstructive deductivism,’ Argumentation and Advocacy: Journal of the American Forensic Association, 41(3), 2005, pp. 168-183. [abstract]
- 2005. Walton and Godden. ‘Persuasion dialogue in online dispute resolution,’ Artificial Intelligence and Law, 13(2), 2005, pp. 273-295. [abstract]
- 2004. Godden and Walton. ‘Denying the antecedent as a legitimate argumentative strategy: A dialectical model,’ Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice , 24(3), 2004, pp. 219-243. [abstract]
- 2003. ‘Arguing at cross-purposes: Discharging the dialectical obligations of the coalescent model of argumentation,’ Argumentation: An International Journal on Reasoning, 17(2), 2003, pp. 219-243. [abstract]
Contributions to Edited Collections
Conferences Papers
Presentations & Contributions to Proceedings
Conference papers which were subsequently published are not listed.
- 2009.
‘The epistemic utility of Toulmin’s argument fields,’ Argument Cultures, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), Windsor, ON, June 3-6, 2009.
- 2008.
‘Revisiting Frege’s epistemology: Frege on the nature of proof and justification,’ American Philosophical Association (Bertrand Russell Society/History of Early Analytic Philosophy), Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 28, 2008.
- 2008. ‘Rethinking the debriefing paradigm: Bounded rationality and normative explanations of belief perseverance,’ Canadian Philosophical Association, Congress of the Social Sciences ad Humanities, Vancouver, BC, June 2-5, 2008.
- 2007. Walton and Godden.
‘Redefining knowledge in a way suitable for argumentation,’ in H.V. Hansen et. al. (eds.), Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground, CD-ROM. Windsor, ON: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2007.
- 2005. Walton and Godden. ‘Alternatives to suspicion and trust as conditions for challenge in argumentative dialogue,’ in P. Riley (Ed.), Engaging Argument: Selected Papers from the 2005 NCA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation, pp. 438-444. Washington DC: NCA (2006).
Ph.D. Dissertation
Articles in Graduate Student Journals
- 1999. ‘The problems of individuality and incommensurability in Raz’s The Morality of Freedom,’ De Philosophia, 15(2), 1999, pp. 33-50.
- 1998. ‘Language and acquisition in Chomskian theory,’ Discourse, 4, 1998, pp. 52-64.
- 1996. ‘Nehamas’ Life as Literature: A case for the defence,’ Kinesis, 23(2), 1996, pp. 29-46.
Graduate Conference Papers
Conference papers which were subsequently published are not listed.
- 2002. ‘On Toulmin's fields and Wittgenstein's later views on logic,’ in Frans H. van Eemeren, J. Anthony Blair, Charles A. Willard and A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2003, pp. 368-375. [abstract]
- 2001. ‘On the relation of argumentation and inference,’ in Hans V. Hansen, Christopher W. Tindale, J. Anthony Blair, Ralph H. Johnson, Robert C. Pinto (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth OSSA Conference: Argumentation and its Applications. Windsor, Ontario: OSSA, 2002.
- 2000. ‘Reference, reduction and mental discourse,’ Ontario Philosophical Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, October, 2000.
- 1999. ‘Psychologism in contemporary argumentation theory,’ in Hans V. Hansen, Christopher W. Tindale, and Elmar Sveda (eds.), Proceedings of the Third OSSA Conference: Argumentation at the Century's Turn. St. Catherines, ON: OSSA, 2000.