Robert C
Pinto, B.A., M.A.,
Ph.D. (University of Toronto).
Professor
Emeritus
Senior Fellow, Centre for Research in
Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric
Some recent and forthcoming papers.
Published
"Govier on Trust" Informal Logic, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2013), pp. 263-291.
"Weighing Evidence in the Context of Conductive Reasoning" (with corrections thanks to Tom Fischer). Published in J. A. Blair and R. H. Johnson, eds., Conductive Argument: An Overlooked Type of Defeasible Reasoning and Argument (London: College Publications, 2011), pp. 104-126.
The Uses of Argument in Communicative Contexts Argumentation 24:2 (2010), pp. 227-252.
"Burdens of Rejoinder". From Hansen and Pinto, Reason Reclaimed (Vale Press, 2007): ): 75-88.
"Argumentation and the
force of reasons". Informal Logic 29: 3. This is the complete version,
with some revision, of the paper on
which my keynote address delivered at OSSA 2009 was based as it appears in
Informal Logic (notes are presented as footnotes).
"Argumentation and the force of reasons". Same as preceding paper, but footnotes have been converted to endnotes - making the text easier to read for those who don't want to view the content of each note as they read along.
Evaluating inferences: the nature and role of warrants. Informal Logic 26: 3 (2006): 287-327.
Truth and Premiss Adequacy. In Tindale, Hansen, Blair, Hansen and Pinto, Argumentation and its Applications. CD-ROM published by Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2002.
Unpublished conference papers, etc.
Truth and the virtue of arguments. This is the full version of the paper on which my presentation at OSSA 2013 was based.
Emotions and Reasons. Paper delivered at OSSA 2011 - this is the full version, as it appears in the Proceedings of that conference.
Understanding 'Probably (draft) - as revised Feb. 22, 2010. Based on a paper delivered at OSSA 2007; an extended abstract of that conference paper can found in the proceedings for OSSA 2007 under the title "'Probably' and other modal qualifiers."
"A Note on Acceptance" (draft) - as revised June 25, 2009. This was formerly an appendix to "'The Uses of Argument in Communicative Contexts," where it was entitled "Belief and Acceptance"