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1. Billig, Michael (University of Loughborough) "Rhetoric and the Unconscious"ABSTRACT
2. Jackson, Sally (University of Arizona) "Disputation by Design"ABSTRACT
3. Rescher, Nicholas (University of Pittsburgh) "The role of rhetoric in argumentation" ABSTRACT

1. Aberdein, Andrew (Logic and Metaphysics, St. Andrews)"Persuasive Definition"
   
   (Commentator: Bruce Russell, Philosophy, Wayne State)ABSTRACT

   Adler, Jonathan (Philosophy, Brooklyn College & the Graduate Center CUNY)"Arguing from Ignorance"
   

   (Commentator: Dale Jacquette, Philosophy, Penn State)ABSTRACT

   Allen, Derek (Philosophy, Toronto) "Should We Assess the Basic Premises of an Argument for Truth or Acceptability?"
   

   (Commentator: Ralph Johnson, Philosophy, Windsor)ABSTRACT

   Bailenson, Jeremy, & Lance J. Rips (Psychology, Northwestern) "Claim Strength and Burden of Proof"
   

   (Commentator: Stuart M. Keeley, Psychology, Bowling GreenABSTRACT

   Blair, J. Anthony (Philosophy, Windsor) "The Limits of the Dialogue Model of Argument"
   

   (Commentator: E.C.W. Krabbe, Philosophy, Groningen)ABSTRACT

   Boger, George (Philosophy, Canisius) "Aristotle's Treatment of Fallacious Reasoning in Sophistical Refutations and Prior Analytics"
   

   (Commentator: David Hitchcock, Philosophy, McMaster)ABSTRACT

   Bradshaw, Leah (Politics, Brock) "Emotion, Reason and Judgment"
   

   (Commentator: Connie Missimer)ABSTRACT

   Browne, M. Neil (Economics, Bowling Green), Terri J. Keeley (Virginia), and W. J. Hiers (Cornell) "The Rhetorical Burden of Expert Witnesses"
   

   (Commentator: Derek Allen, Philosophy, Toronto)ABSTRACT

   Browne, M. Neil (Economics, Bowling Green) and R. G. Hausmann (Honours Program, Bowling Green) "Argument as an Act of Friendship"
   

   (Commentator: Herbert Simons, Speech Communication, Temple)ABSTRACT

   Cecchetto, Vikki and Inga Dolinina (Modern Languages, McMaster) "Facework and Rhetorical Strategies in Intercultural Argumentative Discourse"
   

   (Commentator: Charles A. Willard, Communication, Louisville)ABSTRACT

   Clauss, Patrick (English, Ball State) "Ethics on the Internet?: Usenet Newsgroups and the Subversion of Rationality"

   (Commentator: Jim Gough, Red Deer)ABSTRACT

   Cohen, Dan (Philosophy, Colby) "The Argument Against Rhetoric"
   

   (Commentator: Michael Leff, Communication Studies, Northwestern)ABSTRACT

   Dzialo, Michael G. (English, Yale) "Legal and Philosophical Fictions: At the Line Where the Two Become One"
   

   (Commentator: Christopher Tindale, Philosophy, Trent)ABSTRACT

   Edwards, James G. (Philosophy, Indiana) "Pathological Circularity: Deductive Validity and a Contextual Account of the Fallacy of Begging the Question"
   

   (Commentator: Lawrence H. Powers, Philosophy, Wayne State)ABSTRACT

   El Komos, Maged (Academic Skills & Cultural Studies, Trent) "Perelman as Educational Facilitator: the Realm of Rhetoric and the Acquisition of Rational Discourse"
   

   (Commentator: Claude Gratton, Philosophy, Sudbury)ABSTRACT

   Feteris, Eveline T. (Speech Communication, Amsterdam) "The Soundness of Pragmatic Argumentation: Does the End Justify the Means"
   

   (Commentator: Leo Groarke, Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier)ABSTRACT

   Fisher, Linda (Philosophy, Windsor) "Is Reasoning Gendered?"
   

   (Commentator: Jacqueline Davies, Philosophy, Queen's)ABSTRACT

   Fleming, David (English, New Mexico State) "Housing Rhetoric: Argumentation and City Planning"
   

   (Commentator: Ernest Sternberg, Architecture, SUNY at Buffalo)ABSTRACT

   Freeman, James B. (Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY) "What Types of Statements are There? A Philosophical Look at Stasis Theory"
   

   (Commentator: Marie Secor, English, Penn State)ABSTRACT

   Gilbert, Michael A. (Philosophy, York) "Prolegomenon to a Pragmatics of Emotion"
   

   (Commentator: Charles A. Willar, Communication, Louisville)ABSTRACT

   Girle, Rod (Philosophy, Auckland) "Belief Sets and Commitment Stores"
   

   (Commentator: John Woods, Philosophy, Lethbridge)ABSTRACT

   Goodwin, Jean (Communication Studies, Northwestern) "Forms of Authority and the Real Argumentum ad Verecundiam"
   

   (Commentator: Hans Hohmann, Communication Studies, San Jose State)ABSTRACT

   Gordon, Jill (Philosophy, Colby) "Why Didn't Plato Just Write Arguments? The Role of Image-Making in the Dialogues"
   

   (Commentator: Robert J. Yanal, Philosophy, Wayne State)ABSTRACT

   Gorman, Matthew (Philosophy, Toronto) "Preliminary Conditions for Rational Discussion, as Found in Plato's Gorgias"
   

   (Commentator: Carol Poster, English, Northern Iowa)ABSTRACT

   Govier, Trudy, (Calgary, Alberta) "Arguing Forever? Or: Two Tiers of Argument Appraisal"
   

   (Commentator: Ralph H. Johnson, Philosophy, Windsor)ABSTRACT

   Gratton, Claude (Philosophy, Sudbury) "Infinite Regress of Recurring Questions and Answers"
   

   (Commentator: Joseph A. Novak, Philosophy, Waterloo)ABSTRACT

   Halsall, Albert W. (French/Carleton Centre for Rhetorical Studies, Carleton) "The Topics in Classical and Modern Theories of Interpretation"
   

   (Commentator: Hans Hohmann, Communication Studies, San Jose State)ABSTRACT

   Hayes, Calvin (History, Brock) "Critical Rationalism and Pragma-Dialectis: A Marriage Made in (Logicians') Heaven?"
   

   (Commentator: Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Speech Communication, Amsterdam)ABSTRACT

   Hicks, Darrin (Human Communication, Denver) "Subjectivity and Governance in Procedural Theories of Argument"
   

   (Commentator: Eveline Feteris, Speech Communication, Amsterdam)ABSTRACT

   Hitchcock, David (Philosophy, McMaster) "Enumerative Induction"
   

   (Commentator: Rod Girle, Philosophy, Auckland)ABSTRACT

   Hughes, William (Philosophy, Guelph) "Why Ethics Should be on the Critical Thinking Syllabus"
   

   (Commentator: William Abbott, Philosophy, Waterloo)ABSTRACT

   Jacquette, Dale (Philosophy, Penn State) "On the Relation of Informal to Formal Logic"
   

   (Commentator: Hans V. Hansen, Liberal Studies, Brock)ABSTRACT

   Johnson, Ralph (Philosophy, Windsor) "Differences Between Argumentative and Rhetorical Space"
   

   (Commentator: Joseph Wenzel, Communication, Illinois Urbana-Champaign)ABSTRACT

   Kauffeld, Fred (Edgewood) "Presumption and the Distribution of Argumentative Burdens in Acts of Proposing and Accusing"
   

   (Commentator: James B. Freeman, Philosophy, Hunter - CUNY)ABSTRACT

   Kloosterhuis, Harm (Law, Erasmus) "Analogy Argumentation in Judicial Decisions: A Speech Act Perspective"
   

   (Commentator: Jerome Bickenbach, Philosophy, Queen's)ABSTRACT

   Kominar, Robert A. (Law and Justice, Laurentian) "Rhetoric vs. Argument: Searching for a Paradigm in ADR"
   

   (Commentator: Jerome Bickenbach, Philosophy, Queen's)ABSTRACT

   Krabbe, Erik C. W. (Philosophy, Groningen) "Who is Afraid of a Figure of Speech?"
   

   (Commentator: John Hoaglund, Philosophy, Christopher Newport)ABSTRACT

   Makus, Ingrid (Politics, Brock) "Feminist Reasoning About Reason"
   

   (Commentator: Carmel M. Forde, Philosophy, Dalhousie)ABSTRACT

   Mathewson, Gwen C. (English, Washington) "Outdoing Lewis Carrol"
   

   (Commentator: Jacqueline Davies, Philosophy, Queen's)ABSTRACT

   Mathie, William (Politics, Brock) "Thomas Hobbes on Political Science and Rhetoric"
   

   (Commentator: Philippe Azzie, Political Science, Carleton)ABSTRACT

   Missimer, Connie (Seattle, WA) "The Intuitive Fallacy, Continued"
   

   (Commentator: Christina Slade, Communication, Canberra and New York)ABSTRACT

   Palmer, Terri (English, Carnegie Mellon) "The Dictates of Reason: Bacon, Ramus, and the Naturalization of Invention"
   

   (Commentator: Corrado Federici, French, Italian & Spanish, Brock)ABSTRACT

   Pinto, Robert C. (Philosophy, Windsor) "Coherence, Logic and Psychology"
   

   (Commentator: Jonathan Adler, Philosophy, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY)ABSTRACT

   Plug, Jose (Law, Erasmus) "Indicators of Additional Considerations in Judicial Decisions"

   (Commentator: David Godden, Philosophy, York)ABSTRACT

   Powers, Lawrence H. (Philosophy, Wayne State) "Ad Hominem Arguments"
   

   (Commentator: John Woods, Philosophy, Lethbridge)ABSTRACT

   Reed, Chris (Computer Science, U.C. London) "Persuasion Monologue"
   

   (Commentator: Mark Vorobej, Philosophy, McMaster)ABSTRACT

   Rehg, William (Philosophy, Saint Louis) "Argumentation Theory and the Recent Philosophy of Science"
   

   (Commentator: Marcello Guarini, Philosophy, Western Ontario)ABSTRACT

   Ruhl, Marco (Philosophy, Freiberg) "Argument and Authority: On the Pragmatic Basis of Accepting an Appeal to Authority as Rational"
   

   (Commentator: Jean Goodwin, Communication, Northwestern)ABSTRACT

   Russell, Bruce (Philosophy, Wayne State) "Good Arguments and Fallacies"
   

   (Commentator: Richard Feldman, Philosophy, Rochester)ABSTRACT

   Secor, Marie J. (English, Pennsylvania State) "Mill's Fallacies: Theory and Practice"
   

   (Commentator: Raymie McKerrow, Interpersonal Communication, Ohio)ABSTRACT

   Slade, Christina (Communication, Canberra) "From a Critical Point of View: News as Soap Opera"
   

   (Commentator: Deborah Berrill, Trent-Queen's Concurrent Teacher Education)ABSTRACT

   Snoeck-Henkemans, A. Francesca (Speech Communication, Amsterdam) "The Pragma-Dialectical Approach to Argument Indicators"
   

   (Commentator: J. Anthony Blair, Philosophy, Windsor)ABSTRACT

   Souder, Lawrence G. (Speech Communication, Temple) "A Way to Describe and Evaluate Thought Experiments, or Trying to Get a Grip on Virtual Reality"
   

   (Commentator: Daniel H. Cohen, Philosophy, Colby)ABSTRACT

   Thomson, Christopher (Philosophy, Toronto) "On 'Burdens' of Proof in Ordinary Language Argumentation"
   

   (Commentator: Fred Kauffeld, Edgewood)ABSTRACT

   Vorobej, Mark (Philosophy, McMaster) "Fallacies on Film"
   

   (Commentator: David Birdsell, School of Public Affairs, Baruch)ABSTRACT

   Woods, John (Philosophy, Lethbridge) "The Normative Impotence of Ideal Models"
   

   (Commentator: Robert C. Pinto, Philosophy, Windsor)ABSTRACT

   Yanal, Robert J. (Philosophy, Wayne State) "Argument and Conviction"
   

   (Commentator: Robert W. Binkley, Philosophy, Western Ontario)ABSTRACT