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ARGUMENTATION THEORY
CRITICAL THINKING
INFORMAL LOGIC

ASSOCIATIONS

• American Forensic Association

• Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILCT)

• International Society for the Study of Argumentation

• Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)

CONFERENCES

2010:

• COMMA 2010, International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), University of Brescia, Italy, September 8-10
• 7th Conference on Argumentation, International Society for the Study of Argumentation, University of Amsterdam, June 29-July 2
• Thirteenth Biennial Wake Forest University Argumentation Conference, Wake Forest University, March 19-21, 2010

2009:

• The Uses of Computational Argumentation, AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Washington, November 5-7
• Argument Cultures, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, University of Windsor, June 3-6

• ArgMAS 2009: Sixth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, Budapest, Hungary, May 11 or 12

2008:

• The Psychology of Argumentation and Inductive Reasoning, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Scoence, University of Tilburg, November 21

• Argumentation, the Law and Justice, Third Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, Japan Debate Association (JDA), Department of English, Tsuda College, Tokyo, August 8-10

• Strategies in Argumentation, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, February 14-15

• Logic, Argumentation and Critical Thinking, Centre for the Study of Argumentation, School of Human Sciences and Education, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile, January 8-11

2007:

• Engaging Argument in Society, 15th Alta Conference on Argumentation, American Forensic Association and National Communication Association, University of Utah, August 2-5

• Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground, OSSA, University of Windsor, June 6-9

• Fourth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 14-15

2006:

• COMMA'06: First International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, University of Liverpool, September 11-12 

• Sixth Conference, International Society of the Study of Argumentation, University of Amsterdam, June 27-30

• Annual Meeting, Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT), Chicago, April 18-21

2005:

• Engaging Argument, 14th ALTA Conference on Argumentation, American Forensic Association, National Communication Association and University of Utah, August

• The Uses of Argument, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, McMaster University, May 18-21

2004:

• Argument and Social Cognition, Second Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, Japan Debate Association (JDA), Department of English, Tsuda College, Tokyo, August 3-5

• Critical Thinking Symposium, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, January 14-16

2003:

• Critical Problems in Argumentation, 13th Alta Conference on Argumentation, American Forensic Association, National Communication Association and University of Utah, August

• IL@25, OSSA, University of Windsor, May 14-17

2002:

2001:

2000:

• Arguing, Communication and Culture, 12th Alta Conference on Argumentation, American Forensic Association, National Communication Association and University of Utah, August

• Argumentation and its Applications, OSSA, University of Windsor, May 17-19

1999:

• Argumentation at the Century's Turn, OSSA, Brock University, May 13-15

1998:

1997:

• Argumentation and Rhetoric, OSSA, Brock University, May

1996:

1995:

• Argumentation and Education, OSSA, University of Windsor, May

Biennial:

• ALTA AFA / NCA Conference on Argumentation, University of Utah (old site)

COURSES

• Bloomsburg University: Argumentation (Tomlinson)

• Boston College: Argumentation Theory (Herbeck)

• University of Colorado, Boulder: Principles and Practices of Argumentation (Jackson)

• University of Glasgow, Crichton: Argumentation - Rhetoric - Theory (Jessop)

• Humboldt University: Argumentation and Critical Thinking (VerLinden)

• Lemoyne University: Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (Kagan)

• Lunds University: Advanced Argumentation Theory

• Michigan State University: Rhetoric, Persuasion, and Argument (Porter)

• New Mexico State University: Argumentation: Theories, Practices, Pedagogies (Fleming)

• Rice University: Rhetoric (Tyler)

• University of Texas:

  • Austin: Argumentation and Advocacy (Cherwitz)

  • Arlington: Argumentation (Wood)

  • Brownsville: Argumentation and Persuasion (Church)

• Wake Forest University: Argumentation Theory (Zulick)

• University of Washington: Argumentation

• University of Waterloo:

  • Argumentation (Harris)

  • Argumentation and Incommensurability (Harris)

• Willamette University: Argumentation and Society (Trapp)

• University of Wisconsin, Madison:

  • Theory and Practice of Argumentation and Debate (Asen, et al.)

  • Theory and Practice of Written Argument (Fleming)

JOURNALS

• Argument and Computation

• Argumentation

• Argumentation and Advocacy

• Argumentation et Analyse du Discours

• COGENCY: Journal of Reasoning and Argumentation

• Inquiry: Critical Thinking across the Disciplines

• Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice

• Revista Iberoamericana de Argumentación

PERSONS

• Chaim Perelman (1912 - 1984)
• Douglas Ehninger (1913-1979)

• Henry W. Johnstone (1920 - 2000)

• Wayne Brockriede (1922 - 1985)

• Stephen E. Toulmin (1922 - )

• Joseph W. Wenzel (1933 - )

• Ralph H. Johnson (1940 - )
• J. Anthony Blair (1941 - )
• Douglas N. Walton (1942 - )
• Charles Arthur Willard (1945 - )
• Daniel J. O'Keefe (1950 - )

• Frans H. van Eemeren ( - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

• Kluwer Academic: Argumentation Library

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Aguayo, Angela J., and Timothy R. Steffensmeier, eds.  Readings on Argumentation.  College State, PA: Strata, 2008.

  • Benoit, W. L., Dale Hample, and P. J. Benoit, eds.  Readings in Argumentation.  Berlin: Foris, 1992.

  • Blair, J. Anthony, and Ralph H. Johnson, eds.  Informal Logic: the First International Symposium.  Point Reyes, CA: Edgepress, 1980. 

  • Fahnestock, Jeanne, and Marie Secor, eds.  Readings in Argument.  New York: Random House, 1985.

  • Groarke, Leo, Linda Fisher, and Christopher W. Tindale, eds.  Good Reasoning Matters!.  Oxford: OUP, 1997.

  • Pinto, Robert C., and Hans V. Hansen, eds.  Fallacies: Classical and Contemporary Readings.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1995.

  • Johnstone, Henry W., and Maurice Natanson, eds.  Philosophy, Rhetoric and Argumentation.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1965.

  • Miller, Gerald R., and Thomas R. Nilsen, eds.  Perspectives on Argumentation.  Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1966.

  • van Eemeren, Franz, Rob Grootendorst, and Snoeck Henkemans, eds.  Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory: a Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.

  • van Eemeren, Frans H., Rob Grootendorst, J. Anthony Blair, and Charles Willard, eds.  Perspectives and Approaches, Analysis and Evaluation, Reconstruction and Application, Special Fields and Case Studies, Vols. I - IV, Proceedings of the Third ISSA [International Society for the Study of Argument] Conference on Argumentation.  Amsterdam: International Centre for the Study of Argumentation, 1995.

  • Willard, Charles A., and J. Robert Cox, eds.  Advances in Argumentation Theory and Research.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.

  • Willard, Charles, G. T. Goodnight, G. Mitchell, R. W. Greene, S. Jackson, S. Jacobs, C. Winkler, eds.  Critical Perspectives on Argumentation: Selected Papers from the Thirteenth NCA / AFA Conference on Argumentation.  Washington D.C. National Communication Association, 2005.

  • Ziegelmueller, George, and Jack Rhodes, eds.  Dimensions of Argument: Proceedings of the Second Summer Conference on Argumentation.  Annandale, VA: Speech Communication Association, 1982.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Anderson, Ray Lynn, and C. David Mortensen.  "Logic and Marketplace Argumentation."  Quarterly Journal of Speech 53 (1967): 143-150.

  • Besnard, Philippe, and Anthony Hunter.  Elements of Argumentation.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.

  • Burleson, Brant R.  "On the Analysis and Criticism of Arguments: Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations."  Journal of the American Forensic Association 15 (1979): 137-147.

  • Burleson, Brant R.  "On the Foundations of Rationality: Toulmin, Habermas, and the a Priori of Reason."  Journal of the American Forensic Association 16 (1979): 112-127.

  • Crable, Richard E.  Argumentation as Communication: Reasoning with Receivers.  Columbus, OH: Merrill, 1976.

  • Crosswhite, James.  The Rhetoric of Reason: Writing and the Attractions of Argument.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996.

  • Fahnestock, Jeanne, and Marie Secor.  A Rhetoric of Argument.  New York: Random House, 1982.

  • Finocchiaro, Maurice A.  Galileo and the Art of Reasoning: Rhetorical Foundations of Logic and Scientific Method.  Boston: Reidel, 1980.

  • Fisher, Alec.  The Logic of Real Arguments.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.

  • Fogelin, R. J.  Understanding Arguments: an Introduction to Informal Logic.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978.

  • Freeley, Austin J.  Argumentation and Debate: Rational Decision Making.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1976.

  • Freeman, James B.  Dialectics and the Macrostructure of Arguments: a Theory of Argument Structure.  Berlin: Foris, 1991.

  • Galison, Peter.  Image and Logic.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998.

  • Garver, Eugene.  For the Sake of Argument: Practical Reasoning, Character and the Ethics of Belief.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.

  • Gaskin, Richard.  Burdens of Proof in Modern Discourse.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1995.

  • Gilbert, Michael A.  Coalescent Argumentation.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.

  • Govier, Trudy.  Problems in Argument Analysis and Evaluation.  Dordrecht: Mouton de Gruyter / Foris, 1987.

  • Govier, Trudy.  A Practical Study of Argument.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1985.

  • Gronbeck, Bruce E.  "Sociocultural Notions of Argument Fields: a Primer."  Dimensions of Argument: Proceedings of the Second Summer Conference on Argumentation.  Ed. George Ziegelmueller and Jack Rhodes.  1981.  1-20.

  • Gronbeck, Bruce E.  "From Argument to Argumentation: Fifteen Years of Identity Crisis."  Proceedings of the Summer Conference on Argumentation.  Ed. Jack Rhodes and Sara Newell.  1980.

  • Hample, Dale.  Arguing: Exchanging Reasons Face to Face.  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.

  • Hitchcock, David.  "The Significance of Informal Logic for Philosophy."  Informal Logic 20.2 (): 129-138.

  • Jackson, Sally, and Scott Jacobs.  "Structure of Conversational Argument: Pragmatic Bases for the Enthymeme."  Quarterly Journal of Speech LXVI (): 251-265.

  • Kahane, H.   Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: the Use of Reasoning in Everyday Life.  Belmont: Wadsworth, 1971.

  • Kneale, William, and Stephen Toulmin.  The Development of Logic.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1962.

  • Kneupper, Charles W.  "On Argument and Diagrams."  Journal of the American Forensic Association 14 (1978): 181-186

  • Kuhn, Deanna.  The Skills of Argument.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.

  • Mills, Glen E.  Reason in Controversy: on General Argumentation.  Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1968.

  • Naess, .

  • Munson, R.  The Way of Words: an Informal Logic.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.

  • O'Keefe, Daniel J.  Persuasion: Theory and Research.  London: Sage, 1990.

  • O’Keefe, Daniel J.  "Two Concepts of Argument."  Journal of the American Forensic Association 13 (1977): 121-128.

  • Pinto, Robert C.  Argument, Inference and Dialectic: Collected Papers on Informal Logic.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001.

  • Pinto, Robert C., and J. Anthony Blair.  Reasoning: a Practical Guide.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.

  • Rieke, Richard D., and Malcolm O. Sillars.  Argumentation and the Decision-Making Process.  New York: John Wiley, 1975.

  • Rotenstreich, N.  "Argumentation and Philosophical Clarification."  Philosophy and Rhetoric 5 (1972): 12-23.

  • Rubinelli, Sara.  "The Ancient Argumentative Game: Topoi and Loci in Action."  Argumentation 20.3 (2006): 253-272.

  • Scriven, Michael.  Reasoning.  New York. McGraw Hill, 1976.

  • Smith, P. Christopher.  The Hermeneutics of Original Argument: Demonstration, Dialectic, and Rhetoric.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1998.

  • Tindale, Christopher W.  Fallacies and Argument Appraisal.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

  • Tindale, Christopher W.  Rhetorical Argumentation: Principles of Theory and Practice.  London: Sage, 2004.

  • Tindale, Christopher W.  Acts of Arguing: a Rhetorical Model of Argument.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.

  • Wallace, Karl R.  "The Substance of Rhetoric: Good Reasons."  Quarterly Journal of Speech 44 (1963): .

  • Weinstein, Mark L.  "Towards a Research Agenda for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking."  Informal Logic 12 (1990): 121-143.

  • Wichelns, H.  “The Literary Criticism of Oratory.”  1925. 

    • Studies in Rhetoric and Public Speaking in Honor of James Albert Winans. New York: Russell & Russell, 1962.  181 - 216.

  • Windes, Russell R., and Arthur Hastings.  Argumentation and Advocacy.  New York: Random House, 1965.

  • Woods, John.  "How Philosophical is Informal Logic?"  Informal Logic 20.2 (2000): 139-167.

  • Woods, John.  "What is Informal Logic?"  Informal Logic: the First International Symposium.  Ed. J. A. Blair and R. H. Johnson.  Point Reyes, CA: Edgepress, 1980.  57–68.

  • Zarefsky, David.  "Persistent Questions in the Theory of Argument Fields."  Journal of the American Forensic Association 18 (Spring 1982): .

  • Zarefsky, David.  "Product, Process, or Point of View?  Proceedings of the Summer Conference on Argumentation.  Ed. Ed. Jack Rhodes and Sara Newell.  1980.

On-Line:

• Archives:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Hitchcock, David:

    • The Concept of Argument, and Informal Logic (2006)

    • The Concept of Argument (2005)

  • Tindale, Christopher W.:

    • Textual Allusion.as Rhetorical Argumentation (2007)

    • Constrained Maneuvering: Rhetoric as a Rational Enterprise (2006)

    • Perelman, Informal Logic and the Historicity of Reason (2006)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  •  

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bowell, Tracy, and Gary Kemp.  Critical Thinking: a Concise Guide.  London: Routledge, 2002.

  • Corbett, Edward P. J., and Rosa Aberley  The Elements of Reasoning.  Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

  • Covino, William A.  The Elements of Persuasion.  London: Longman, 1997.

  • Fisher, Alec.  The Logic of Real Arguments.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

  • Fisher, Alec.  Critical Thinking: an Introduction.  Cambridge: CUP, 2001.

  • Fogelin, Robert J.  Understanding Arguments: an Introduction to Informal Logic.  London: Harcourt College, 2001.

  • Govier, Trudy.  Practical Study of Argument.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1992.

  • Inch, Edward S., Barbara Warnick, and Danielle Endres.  Critical Thinking and Communication: the Use of Reason in Argument.  Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2006.

  • McKay, Thomas.  Reasons, Explanations, and Decisions: Guidelines for Critical Thinking.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000.

  • Moore, N. B., and R. Parker.  Critical Thinking: Evaluating Arguments in Everyday Life.  Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1989.

  • Ruggiero, Vincent.  Beyond Feelngs: a Guide to Critical Thinking.  Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield, 1984.

  • Shand, John.  Arguing Well.  London: Routledge, 2000.

  • Thomson, Anne.  Critical Reasoning: a Practical Introduction.  London: Routledge, 1996.

  • Weston, Anthony.  A Rulebook for Arguments.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000.

On-Line:

• Frank, David A.: Argumentation Studies in the Wake of The New Rhetoric Argumentation and Advocacy (2004)

• Gabennesch, Howard: Critical Thinking: What is it Good for?  In Fact, What is it? Skeptical Inquirer March-April 2006

• Groarke, Leo: Informal Logic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Johnson, Ralph H.: Informal Logic Polimetrica (2007)

• Monty Python Skit: Argument Clinic

• Purdue University: OWL: Argumentation-Persuasion: Logic in Argumentative Writing

• Richardson, Jeff: On Argumentation

• Sheftman, David: Argumentation and Rhetoric

• Twente University: Argumentation Theory

• Wikipedia:

  • Argument

  • Argumentation Theory

  • Casuistry

  • Critical Thinking

  • Informal Logic

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Canada:

• Windsor University: Department of Philosophy: Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric

Europe:

• Netherlands:

  • University of Amsterdam: Department  of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric:
    • MA Discourse and Argumentation Studies Track (or here)
    • MA Rhetoric, Argumentation Theory and Philosophy (or here)
• Switzerland:
  • Argumentation Practices in Context Doctoral Programme (Argupolis)

WWW GATEWAYS

• ARGTHRY ListServ

• Critical Thinking Community
• University of Hong Kong: Critical Thinking Web

• Prakken, Henry: Argumentation Theory

• van Gelder, Tim: Critical Thinking on the Web

• Weiss, Steven M., et al.: Argue.Net

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