Philosophy professor Christopher Tindale is the fourth UWindsor scholar to receive the distinguished research award from the International Society for the Study of Argumentation.
Colleagues collected essays to honour the work of philosophy professor Hans Hansen, seen here in a portrait by painter Laurie McGaw.
Colleagues collected essays to honour the work of philosophy professor Hans Hansen.
A symposium on campus November 8 will consider and discuss different aspects of the nature of trust.
A seminar Thursday will discuss ways to classify research in argumentation and informal logic.
Philosophy professor Hans V. Hansen will consider how arguments can seem better than they are in a free public presentation Wednesday.
If you want to pick a fight, you’ll get no argument from Hans Hansen. The philosophy professor is preparing for the Ontario Society for the Study of Argument conference, “Virtues of Argumentation,” to be held at the University of Windsor this week.
The conference, hosted by the Centre for Research on Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, runs May 23 to 25. It will feature keynote addresses by:
John Stuart Mill is best known nowadays for his moral and political philosophy, but in a free public presentation Wednesday, philosophy professor Hans V. Hansen will show how some of his key scientific and political writings also contain the elements of a theory of argumentation.
“By studying his practice in some of his most celebrated works—Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, and On Liberty—we can observe whether Mill in fact adhered to his own standards of argumentation,” Dr. Hansen says.
While many students were enjoying a break from their studies, Mark Badrov was hard at work in the lab this summer, trying to better understand why a simple hand grip device helps lower blood pressure in some individuals.
“I really like research,” said Badrov, a human kinetics student who will enter the second year of his master’s program this fall. “It’s a lot of fun. It involves a lot of hands-on learning, and you feel like you’re making a difference.”
