Huihua Li
Beijing Sport University, China: Dec. 2021 - Nov. 2022
Critical thinking and improving student performance
Léa Farine
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Sept. 2021 - May 2022
Rhetorical and argumentative aspects of conditional construction
Bárbara Amaral de Silva
Brazil: Sept. 2020 - Oct. 2021
History of rhetoric
Davide Cattani
University of Trento, Italy: Oct. 2019 - Nov. 2019
Argumentation in Law
Xie Ting (Elsa)
East China Normal University, Shanghai, China: Sept. 2019 - Aug. 2020
Marko Novak
Professor, New University Delpinova, Slovenia: Apr. 2019 - May 2019
Mindaugas Gilaitis
Professor, Vilnius University, Lithuania: Apr. 2019 - June 2019
Liao Yanlin (Alan)
Nanjing University of China, Nanjing, China: Sept. 2018 - Aug. 2019
Mustafa Yesil
Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Konya, Turkey: Jan - July 2019
Mathieu Beirlaen
Ghent University, Belgium: October 2018
Jianfeng Wang
Professor, Fujian Normal University, P. R. China. September 2017 to May 2018.
Javier Vilanova Arias
Professor, Departamento de Lógica y Filosofia de la Ciencia Facultad de Filosofia de la Universidad Complutense, Spain. March to June 2017.
Christopher Roser
Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy, Research Training Group: Philosophy, Science and the Sciences Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. March 2017.
Federico Puppo
Professor of Philosophy of Law, CERMEG- Research Centre on Legal Methodology, Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Italy. July 2016.
Sun Lin
Professor, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. Sabbatical, February 2015 to February 2016.
Zhang Shuxue
Professor, Dalian Maritime University, China. September to December 2014.
Marc Angenot
James McGill Chair in Social Discourse, McGill University, Quebec: November 2013.
Wei Chen
Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China: September to October 2013.
Qiao Guo
Deputy Director, School of Public Administration, Henan University, China. October 2013 to August 2014.
Daniel Fasko, Jr.
Professor of Educational Psychology, Educational Foundations & Inquiry Program, Bowling Green University: September to December 2013.
Bruno Leclercq
Professeur do Philosophie analytique et logique, Université de Liège. Sabbatical, March to June 2014.
Jens Kjeldson
Professor of rhetoric and visual communication at University of Bergen/Södertörn University, Norway; Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, and President of the Rhetoric Society of Europe (RSE): April 2013.
Andrew Aberdein
Humanities and Communication, Florida Institute of Technology, and Visiting Researcher, Informatics, University of Edinburgh: May 2013
Marcin Koszowy
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Bialystok: May - June 2013
Dr. Stephen Patterson
CRRAR is pleased to welcome Dr. Steven Patterson from the Philosophy Department at Marygrove College, Detroit, as Visiting Research Fellow for the period September 1, 2009 - June 30, 2013. Professor Patterson has his Ph.D. in philosophy from Wayne State University (2003). He specializes in social and political theory, ethics, and human rights. His recent research involves the incorporation and application of insights from argumentation theory to problems in democratic theory. While a CRRAR Visiting Fellow he will be developing both new and existing projects on dialogical norms for religiously based political participation, the role of truth as a norm in civic discourse, the social value of argumentation, and the definition of argument.
Minghui Xiong
Prof. Dr. XIONG Minghui, is Full Professor and Vice-Director of the Institute of Logic and Cognition at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, P.R. China.
Trudy Govier
CRRAR Distinguished Visiting Researcher
Trudy Govier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge. She has been active in the field of informal logic and argumentation studies for many years and is the author of the widely used text, A Practical Study of Argument (seven editions) and several collections including The Philosophy of Argument (1999). Govier also writes in the area of social philosophy and takes a keen interest in issues pertaining to peace and conflict. She has been active in the not-for-profit sector and is known for her ability to relate philosophical themes to real world practical problems.
Dr. Gerard Houser
Dr. Christian Plantin
Prof. Rongdong Jin
Professor of logic, Department of Philosophy/Centre for Research in Knowledge and Action, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Prof. Jin graduated with a Ph.D. in Philosophy from East China Normal University in 1998. He specializes in Chinese philosophy (especially, language and logic in ancient China), informal logic, and critical thinking. He has published several books, including A Brief History of Legalism (1995, 2001), A Study of Li Dazhao's Philosophy (2000), What Can Logics Do? Reflections on Logics in Contemporary China from a Perspective of Modernity (2005). In 2005, he became an enlisted professor for the Program of New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education, the P.R.C.. He is a vice-chair of the Committee of History of Chinese Logic, The Chinese Association of Logic since 2007.
Sponsored by China Scholarship Council, Prof. Jin will work at the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric as a visiting research scholar from September 2009 to August 2010. His research projects during this period are (1) to address some philosophical issues of informal logic, such as the notion of rationality, the concept of knowledge and the concept of rule presupposed by informal logicians; (2) to consider the possibility of reconstructing ancient Chinese logic in terms of informal logic.
Dr. Fabrizio Macagno
Born in Cuneo, Italy, on October 14th, 1979, Fabrizio Macagno graduated in 2003 from l’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. He specialized in linguistics and communication, and defended a master thesis in Linguistics on the topic of presupposition. In 2008 he defended his PhD dissertation, The Argumentative Uses of Definition. He teaches at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and collaborates as a consultant with an international law firm, Martinez & Novebaci.
Cristián Santibáñez
Dr. Cristián Santibáñez, Professor of Linguistics Center of Argumentation Studies Diego Portales University, Chile presented his paper Recurrent Argumentative Strategies in Political Chilean Discourse to the Centre in March 2007.
Frank Zenker
Frank Zenker presented two papers in February of 2007 while completing his PhD at the University of Calgary/University of Hamburg. One of his papers was on human embryo research and the other was about Ceteris Paribus clauses.
Takuzo Konishi
Takuzo Konishi (PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh and graduate of Windsor's MA program in Philosophy) interviewed CRRAR researchers for his doctoral research project on the oral history of contemporary argumentation theory.
Michael Leff
From February 25-27, the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric hosted Dr. Michael Leff, Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis, as a visiting research scholar. Dr. Leff had individual discussions with members of CRRAR, gave a lecture open to students and the public, and participated in a roundtable.
Thomas Gordon
Dr. Thomas F. Gordon is a computer scientist and lawyer at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, where he conducts research on governance technology and related topics, including artificial intelligence and law, legal rule-based systems, legal informatics and computational models of legal argumentation. The goal of this research is to provide software tools for tasks in the policy life cycle: agenda setting, analysis, policy development and legislation, implementation (including administrative rule making and electronic service delivery), and monitoring.