Robert C Pinto, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (University of  Toronto).

Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy

Senior Fellow, Centre for Research in

  Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric

University of Windsor

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Some recent and forthcoming papers.

Published

• "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.

• "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.

• “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.

In preparation

• Emotions and Reasons. Paper delivered at OSSA 2011 - this is the full version, as it is  to appear in the Proceedings of the 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"