Persuasive Definition

Andrew Aberdein, Florida Institute of Technology

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Arguing from Ignorance

Jonathan Adler, CUNY

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Pinto

Jonathan Adler

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Browne, Keeley & Hiers

Derek Allen

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Should We Assess the Basic Premises of an Argument for Truth or Acceptability?

Derek Allen, University of Toronto

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Mathie

Philippe Azzie

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Claim Strength and Burden of Proof

Jeremy Bailenson, Northwestern University
Lance J. Rips, Northwestern University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Slade

Deborah Berrill

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Kloosterhuis

Jerome Bickenbach

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Kominar

Jerome Bickenbach

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Yanal

Robert W. Binkley

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Vorobej

David Birdsell

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Snoeck-Henkemans

J Anthony Blair

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Limits of the Dialogue Model of Argument

J Anthony Blair, University of Windsor

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Aristotle’s Treatment of Fallacious Reasoning in Sophistical Refutations and Prior Analytics

George Boger, Canisius College

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Emotions, Reasons and Judgement

Leah Bradshaw, Brock University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Argument as an Act of Friendship

Neil M. Browne, Bowling Green State University
R G. Hausmann, Bowling Green State University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Rhetorical Burden of Expert Witnesses

Neil M. Browne, Bowling Green State University
Terri J. Keeley
W J. Hiers, Cornell University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Eunoia on the Internet?: Usenet Newsgroups and the Subversion of Rationality

Patrick Claus, Ball State University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Argument Against Rhetoric

Daniel Cohen, Colby College

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Souder

Daniel H. Cohen

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Facework and Rhetorical Strategies in Intercultural Argumentation

Inga Dolinina, McMaster University
Vittorina Cecchetto, McMaster University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Legal and Philosophical Fictions: At the Line Where the Two Become One

Michael G. Dzialo, Yale University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Pathological Circularity: Deductive Validity and a Contextual Account of the Fallacy of Begging the Question

James G. Edwards, Indiana University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Perelman as Educational Facilitator: the Reals of Rhetoric and the Acquisition of Rational Discourse

Maged El Komos, Trent University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Soundness of Pragmatic Argumentation: Does the End Justify the Means?

Feteris T. Eveline, University of Amsterdam

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Palmer

Corrado Federici

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Russell

Richard Feldman

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Hicks

Eveline Feteris

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Is Reasoning Gendered?

Linda Fisher, Central European University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Housing Rhetoric: Argumentation and City Planning

David Flemming, New Mexico State University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Makus

Carmel M. Forde

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Kauffeld

James B. Freeman

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

What Types of Statements are There? A Philosophical Look at Stasis Theory

James B. Freeman, CUNY

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Prolegomenon to a Pragmatics of Emotion

Michael A. Gilbert, York University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Hitchcock

Roderic Girle

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Belief Sets and Commitment Stores

Roderic A. Girle, University of Auckland

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Plug

David Godden

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Ruhl

Jean Goodwin

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Forms of Authority and the Real Argumentum ad Verecundiam

Jean Goodwin, Iowa State University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Why Didn’t Plato Just Write Arguments? The Role of Image-Making in the Dialogues

Jill Gordon, Colby College

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Does Socrates Engage in Socratic Argumentation?

Matthew Gorman

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Clauss

Jim Gough

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Arguing Forever? Or: Two Tiers of Argument Appraisal

Trudy Govier

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on El Komos

Claude Gratton

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Infinite Regress of Recurring Questions and Answers

Claude Gratton, University of Sudbury

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Feteris

Leo Groarke

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Rehg

Marcello Guarini

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Topics in Classical and Modern Theories of Interpretation

Albert W. Halsall, Carleton University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Jacquette

Hans V. Hansen

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Popper’s Critical Relationism and the Rationale for Pragma-Dialectics

Calvin Hayes, Brock University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Subjectivity and Governance in Procedural Theories of Argument

Darrin Hicks, University of Denver

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Boger

David Hitchcock

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Enumerative Induction

David Hitchcock, McMaster

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Krabbe

John Hoaglund

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Goodwin

Hanns Hohmann

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Halsall

Hanns Hohmann

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Why Ethics Should be on the Critical Thinking Syllabus

William Hughes, University of Guelph

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Adler

Dale Jacquette

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

On the Relation of Informal to Formal Logic

Dale Jacquette, The Pensylvania State University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Govier

Ralph Johnson

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Differences Between Argumentative and Rhetorical Space

Ralph Johnson, Unievrsity of Windsor

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Allen

Ralph H. Johnson

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Thomson

Fred Kauffeld

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Presumptions and the Distribution of Argumentative Burdens in Acts of Proposing and Accusing

Fred Kauffeld, Edgewood College

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Bailenson & Rips

Stuart M. Keeley

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Reconstruction of Legal Analogy-Argumentation: Monological and Dialogical Approaches

Harrm Kloosterhuis, Erasmus University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Rhetoric or Argument: The Rational Culture of ADR

Robert A. Kominar, Laurentian University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Blair

Erik C W Krabbe

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Who is Afraid of Figure of Speech?

Erik C W Krabbe, University of Groningen

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Cohen

Michael Leff

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Fisher

Jacqueline Macgregor Davies

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Matthewson

Jacqueline Macgregor Davies

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Feminist Reasoning about Reason

Ingrid Makus, Brock University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Rhetoric and Reason in the Civil Science of Thomas Hobbes

William Mathie, Brock University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Outdoing Lewis Carrol: Judicial Rhetoric and Acceptable Fictions

Gwen C. Matthewson, University of Washington

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Secor

Raymie McKerrow

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Do the Fallacies you Favour Retard the Growth of Knowledge?

Connie Missimer, Seattle, Washington

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Gratton

Joseph A. Novak

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Dictates of Reason: Bacon, Ramus, and the Naturalization of Invention

Terri Palmer, Carnegie Mellon University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Woods

Robert C. Pinto

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Logic, Coherence and Psychology

Robert C. Pinto, University of Windsor

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Indicators of Obiter Dicta

José Plug, Erasmus University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Ad Hominem Arguments

Lawrence H. Powers, Wayne State University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Edwards

Lawrence H. Powers

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Persuasion Monologue

Chris Reed, University College London
Derek Long, University of Durham

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Argumentation Theory and the Recent Philosophy of Science

William Rehg, St Louis University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Argument and Authority: On the Pragmatic Basis of Accepting an Appeal to Authority

Marco Ruhl

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Aberdein

Bruce Russell

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Good Arguments and Fallacies

Bruce Russell, Wayne State University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Freeman

Marie Secor

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Mill’s Fallacies: Theory and Practice

Marie J. Secor, Pennsylvania State University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Browne & Hausmann

Herbert Simons

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Missimer

Christina Slade

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

From a Critical Point of View: News as a Soap Opera

Christina Slade, New York University (Harkness Fellow

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Hayes

A Francisca Snoeck Henkemans

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Verbal Indicators of Argumentation and Explanation

A Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, University of Amsterdam

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

A Way to Describe and Evaluate Thought Experiments, or Trying to Get a Grip on Virtual Reality

Lawrence G. Souder, Temple University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Flemming

Ernest Sternberg

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

On ‘Burdens’ of Proof in Ordinary Language Argumentation

Christopher Thomson, University of Toronto

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commntary on Dzialo

Christopher W. Tindale, University of Windsor

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Introduction: The Importance of Rhetoric for Argumentation

Christopher W. Tindale, University of Windsor

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Reed & Long

Mark Vorobej

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Fallacies on Film

Mark Vorobej, McMaster University

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Johnson

Joseph Wenzel

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Girle

John Woods

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Powers

John Woods

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Normative Impotence of Ideal Models

John Woods

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Argument and Conviction

Robert J. Yanal, Wayne State

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Commentary on Gordon

Robert J. Yanal

Brock University

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM