Excellence in Research

Marcello Guarini

• 2016. “Order Effects, Moral Cognition, and Intelligence,” in Vincent C. Müller (ed.), 2016. Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence (Synthese Library), Berlin: Springer, pp. 527-540.
• 2012. “Conative Dimensions of Machine Ethics: A Defense of Duty,” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 3, no. 4, pp. 434-442.
• 2011. “Computational Neural Modeling and the Philosophy of Ethics,” in M. Anderson and S. Anderson, eds, Machine Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 316 - 334. 
• 2010. “Particularism, Analogy, and Moral Cognition,” Minds and Machines, 20, no.3, pp. 385-422. 
• 2009.  Guarini, Marcello, Amy Butchart, Paul Simard Smith, and Andrei Moldovan. “Resources for Research on Analogy: A Multi-disciplinary Guide.” Informal Logic, 29 (2): 84-198. 
• 2004. “A Defense of Non-deductive Reconstructions of Analogical Arguments,” Informal Logic 24, no.2, pp. 153-168.
• 2001. “A Defense of Connectionism Against the ‘Syntactic’ Argument,” Synthese 128, no. 3, pp. 287-317.

Radu Neculau

• Critical psychology without critical psychologists? Reflections on the critical potential of social representations theory in a post-communist society. Annual Review of Critical Psychology 11 (2012), forthcoming.

• Practical reasoning as creative social imagination. In: F. Zenker (Ed.), Argumentation: Cognition and Community. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), pp. 1-10, 2011.

• Being oneself in another: Recognition and the culturalist deformation of identity. Inquiry, 55:2 (2011), pp. 148-170.

• Identity recognition and the normative challenge of crowd psychology. Annual Review of Critical Psychology 10 (2011), pp. 100-110.

• L'icône et le foulard: identité culturelle, dignité morale et reconnaissance réciproque. Meta 1:2 (2009), pp. 212-248.

• Normative validity, cultural identity, and ideology critique. In: J. Ritola (Ed.), Argument Cultures. Proceedings of the 2009 OSSA Conference, pp. 1-19, 2009.

• Does Kant's rejection of the right to resist make him a legal rigorist? Interpretation and instantiation in the Rechtslehre. Kantian Review 13:1 (2008), pp. 107-140.

• The sublimity of violence: Kant and the aesthetic response to the French Revolution. Symposium 12:1 (2008), pp. 29-43.

Jeff Noonan

• Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.

• "Between Egoism and Altruism: Outlines for a Materialist Conception of the Good, Critical Review of International Philosophy and Policy, forthcoming, Summer, 2003.

• "Can There be Applied Philosophy Without Philosophy?" Interchange, 34, #1, 2003.

• "Democracy, Pluralism, and the Life-Ground of Value, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 13(4), 2002.

Philip Rose

• "Rethinking Whitehead's Cosmology Through the Cosmogonic Philosophy of C.S. Peirce: Speculation on the Origins of the Actual and the Metaphysical Primacy of the Possible," in Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy, Ed. Andrew M. Davis, Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Wm. Andrew Schwartz (Palgrave Perspectives on Proces Philosophy, 2022).
• "Speculative Philosophy and the Tyranny of the Practical" (Academia Letters, 2021).
• "The End of Mechanism: The Machine Model of Nature, Technologies of Information, and the Ecological Turn," in Canadian Environmental Philosophy, Ed. C. Tyler DesRoches, Frank Jankunis, and Byron Williston (McGill-Queens, 2019).
• "The Anthropocene, Cultural-Technological Life, and the Ecological Turn: Rethinking Nature and Humanity via a Real Relation to the Possible" (Analecta Hermeneutica, 2018).
• "Possibility, Spontaneity, and the General Order of Nature: Toward a General Theory of Emergence," in Nature Alive: Essays on the Emergence and Evolution of Living Agents, Ed. Adam C. Scarfe (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018).

Christopher Tindale

• “Out of the Space of Reasons: Argumentation, Agents and Persons,” Pragmatics and Cognition. 19.3. (2011):383-398.

• Reason’s Dark Champions: Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument. University of South Carolina Press, 2010.

• “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.

• "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.)

• “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.

• 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.

J.A Blair

University Professor

• “The Philosophy of Argument.” Argument Cultures. Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. Windsor, ON, Canada. 3-6 June. CD-Rom, 2010.

• “Commentary on James B. Freeman, ‘Justifying higher-level moral principles: a role for argumentation?’” .” Argument Cultures. Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. Windsor, ON, Canada. 3-6 June. CD-Rom, 2010.

• “Commentary on Takuzo Konishi, ‘Toward history of argumentation: Canadian informal logic.’” Argument Cultures. Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. Windsor, ON, Canada. 3-6 June. CD-Rom, 2010.

• “Teaching the Dog’s Breakfast,” [with R. H. Johnson] APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 1., 2009.

• “Informal Logic and Logic.” Studies in Logic, Grammar & Rhetoric 15 (28). (Special Issue on Argumentation Theory and Informal Logic), 2009.

• “The Logic of Natural Language.” (Co-author R. H. Johnson.)  In Philosophy and World Problems, John McMurtry (Ed.), in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Developed under the auspices of the UNESCO.Oxford: Eolss Publishers, 2009. 

• “Who teaches K-12 critical thinking?” In Jan Sobocan and Leo Groarke (eds.), Critical Thinking Education and Assessment: Can Higher Order Thinking be Tested?, pp. 267-279. London, ON: The Althouse Press, 2009.

• “The Pertinence of Toulmin and Perelman.Olbrechts-Tyteca for Informal Logic,” in Henrique Jales Ribeiro (Ed.), Rhetoric and Argumentation in the Beginnings of the XXIst Century, pp.17-32. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2009.

• “Argument Evaluation and Fallacies for Critical Thinking,” in Alfred C. Snider (Ed.), Frontiers of the 21st Century: Argumentation, Debate and the Struggle for Civil Society, Proceedings of the 2004 and 2005 International Debate Education Association Conferences in Turkey and Estonia, pp. 3-19. New York: IDEBATE Press, 2008.

• “Perelman Today on Justice and Argumentation,” in Takeshi Suzuki, Takayuki Kato and Aya Kubota (Eds,), Proceedings of the 3rd Tokyo Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation, the Law and Justice (August 2008), pp. 18-22. Tokyo: Japan Debate Association, 2008.

• "Walton's Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning: A Critique and Development." In Angela J. Aguayo and Timothy R. Steffensmeier (Eds.), Readings on Argumentation, pp. 128-140. State College, PA: Strata Publishing, Inc. (Reprint of 2001 article in Argumentation.), 2008.

• Johnson, Ralph H. and J. Anthony Blair. "Informal Logic: An Overview." In Angela J. Aguayo and Timothy R. Steffensmeier (Eds.), Readings on Argumentation, pp. 26-37. State College, PA: Strata Publishing, Inc. (Reprint of 2000 article in Informal Logic.), 2008.

R. H. Johnson

University Professor

• Elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2003.

• ISSA Award, 2000

• Lieutenant Governor Laurel Award, 1993

• Manifest Rationality: A Pragmatic Study of Argument, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000 Pp. xiii + 391.

• “Informal Logic and the Reconfiguration of Logic,” (with J.A. Blair), in: Handbook of the Logic of Argument and Inference: The Turn toward the Practical Reasoning,. Dov Gabbay, Ralph H. Johnson, Hans-Jurgen Ohlbach and John Woods (Eds.). Amsterdam: Elsivier, 2003, pp. 339-396

• “Manifest Rationality Reconsidered: Reply to My Fellow Symposiasts” Argumentation, 16:3 (2002) pp. 311-331

• 1999 "Reasoning, Argument and The Network Problem," Protosociology.13, (1999), pp. 14-28.

Deborah Cook

• Adorno on Nature (Stocksfield, England: Acumen Publishing Limited, 2011) pp. ix-198.

• Theodor Adorno: Key Concepts, ed. Deborah Cook, (Stocksfield, England: Acumen Publishing Limited, 2008) pp. viii 211.

• Adorno, Habermas, and the Search for a Rational Society (London and New York: Routledge, 2004) pp. xii-228.

• The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996) pp. xiv-190.

• The Subject Finds a Voice: Foucault’s Turn Toward Subjectivity (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1993) pp. xi–151.

• "Comme par un miroir, obscurément: la théologie inversée d’Adorno," Les Normes et le Possible: Héritage et Perspectives de l’Ecole de Francfort, eds. Pierre-François Noppen, Iain Macdonald, and Gérard Raulet, (Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 2013).

• "The Rise and Decline of the Individual: Exit Hamlet, Enter Hamm," Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity, ed. Zubin Meer, (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011) pp. 227-33.

• "Theodor W. Adorno," History of Continental Philosophy, ed. Alan Schrift, Vol. 5: Critical Theory to Structuralism: Philosophy, Politics, and the Human Sciences, ed. David Ingram, (Chesholm, England: Acumen Publishing Limited, 2010), pp. 81-104.

Robert Pinto

• R. C. Pinto, “The Uses of Argument in Communicative Contexts.”  Argumentation 24:2 (2010), pp. 227-252.

• R. C. Pinto, “Argumentation and the force of reasons”. Informal Logic 29: 3 (2010), pp. 263-297.

• Hans V. Hansen and R. C. Pinto, eds., Reason Reclaimed: Essays in Honour of J. Anthony Blair and Ralph H. Johnson. Vale Press, June 2007.

• R. C. Pinto, “Evaluating Inferences: the nature and role of warrants”. Informal Logic 26: 3 (2006):  287-317.

• R. C. Pinto, Argument, Inference and Dialectic: Collected papers on informal logic. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

• Hans V. Hansen and R. C. Pinto, eds., Fallacies: Classical and Contemporary Readings. College Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.

• R. C. Pinto and J. A. Blair, Reasoning: A Practical Guide. Englwood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1993.

• R. C. Pinto, J. A. Blair and Kate Parr, Reasoning: A Practical Guide for

• Canadian Students. Toronto: Prentice Hall Canada, Inc., 1993.

Catherine Hundleby

• Feminist Perspectives on Argumentation. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2021. http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html.
• Adversarial Argument, Belief Change, and Vulnerability.” Topoi 40(5): 859-872, 2021. With Moira Howes (co-author).
• Epistemic Coverage and Argument Closure. 2021. Topoi 40(5): 1051 - 1062
• Thinking Outside-In: Feminist Standpoint Theory as Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. In The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science. 2020.
• The Epistemology of Anger in Argumentation. Symposion 5(2): 229-254, 2018. With Moira Howes (co-author).
• Feminist Empiricism. The Handbook of Feminist Research, second edition, Sage, 2011.
• Visiting Fellow, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, 2010-2011.

Hans Hansen

• 2021. Aspects of Walton’s theory of argumentation schemes.  J. of Applied Logics 8: 195-218.
• 2020. In search of a workable auxiliary condition for authority arguments.  In From Argument Schemes to Argumentative Relations in the Wild (Springer), 25-40.
• 2019. Editor. Presumptions and Burdens of Proof.  University of Alabama Press.
• 2017. Editor. Deliberative Rhetoric: Arguing About Doing. (Essays of Chr. Kock). Windsor: Windsor Studies in Argumentation.
• 2015. Fallacies. The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.
• 2014. Mill, informal logic and argumentation.  In  John Stuart Mill’s A System of Logic: Critical Appraisals. Routledge, 192-217.
• 2014. Editor. Riel’s Defence: Perspectives on his Speeches. McGill-Queen’s University Press.