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2005, "Theory and Practice Again: Challenges from Toulmin and Pinto."  In: The Uses of Argument: Proceedings of a Conference at McMaster University, David Hitchcock (Ed.),  Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, pp. 222-231   Click to read

 2005, "Why ‘Visual Arguments’ aren’t Arguments."  In: Hans V. Hansen, Christopher Tindale, J. Anthony Blair and Ralph H. Johnson (Eds.).  Informal Logic at 25, University of Windsor, CD-ROM, 2005 Click to read

2003, "The Dialectical Tier Revisited."  Keynote Address to the Fifth International Conference on Argumentation. In: Anyone Who has a View: Theoretical Contributions to the Study of Argumentation,  Frans H. van Eemeren, J. Anthony Blair, Charles A. Willard, and A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (Eds.).  Dorcrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 41-54. Click to read

2002, "Manifest Rationality Reconsidered: Reply to My Fellow Symposiasts" Argumentation, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 311-331.

2002 "Intrepreting Shell’s ‘Clear Thinking in Troubled Times,’" Informal Logic/Teaching Supplement, Vol, 21. No. 3, pp. TS39-47.

2000 "Informal Logic: An Overview." Informal Logic, Vol, 20, pp. 93-108.

 

Articles

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

1999 "The Relation between Formal and Informal Logic," Argumentation, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 265-74.

1996 "Critical Thinking and Command of Language," Inquiry, Winter 1996, Vol. 16, No.2, pp. 78-92.

1994 "Argumentation: A Pragmatic Perspective," Inquiry, April/May, Volume 13, No. 3-4, pp. 3-9.

1993 "Rescher's Contribution to Informal Logic," [with J. A. Blair], Informal Logic: Special Issue on Nicholas Rescher, 14, pp. 1-4.

1991 "Teaching Critically," APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 90, No. 3 [Fall], pp. 59-64.

1991 "In Response to Walton," Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 362-66.

1991 "The Place of Argumentation in the Theory of Reasoning," Communication and Cognition, Vol. 24, pp. 5-14.

1991 "Misconceptions of Informal Logic: A Reply to McPeck" [with J. A. Blair], Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 14 [March], pp. 35-52.

1990 "Hamblin on The Standard Treatment," Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 153-67.

1990 "Acceptance is Not Enough: A Critique of Hamblin," Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 271-287.

1989 "Massey on Fallacy and Informal Logic: A Reply," Synthese, 80, pp. 407-26.

1988 Critical Notice of Gilbert Harman Change in View in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 1 (March 1988), pp. 163-78.

1987 "The Blaze of Her Splendors: Suggestions about Revitalizing Fallacy Theory," Argumentation, Vol. 1, No. 3 (November 1987), pp. 239-53.

1987 "Argumentation as Dialectical," J. Anthony Blair and Ralph H. Johnson, Argumentation, Vol. 1, No. 1, (March 1987), pp. 41-56.

1987 "The Current State of Informal Logic," (with J. A. Blair), Informal Logic, Vol. 9, No. 2-3, pp. 147-51.

1985 "Informal Logic: The Past Five Years, 1978-83," Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 3, July, 1985, pp.181-96.

1985 "Some Observations about Teaching Critical Thinking," CT News, Vol.4, No. 1, September-October 1985, pp. 1, pp. 5-6.

1983 "A Bibliography of Recent Work in Informal Logic," Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair, Informal Logic Newsletter, Vol. V, No. 3, July 1983, pp. 3-15.

1981 "The New Logic Course: The State of the Art in Non-formal Methods of Argument Analysis," Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 4, pp. 123-43.

1981 "Charity Begins at Home: Some Reflections on the Principle of Charity," Informal Logic Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 4-9.

1981 "Toulmin's Bold Experiment: An Appreciation and Critique of Toulmin's An Introduction to Reasoning in Informal Logic Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 16-27, and Vol 3. No. 3, pp.13-20.

1978 "Kierkegaard on Philosophy," Dialogue, Vol. XVII, pp. 442-55.