Douglas Walton

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Douglas Neil Walton ( June 2, 1942 - January 3, 2020 ) was a Canadian argumentation theorist who made influential contributions to informal logic , logical fallacies and reasoning.

Life

Walton earned his Ph.D. 1972 at the University of Toronto and then taught for many years at the University of Winnipeg , Manitoba, and as a professor or fellow at various other North American and European universities, for example at Northwestern University in Illinois , the University of Arizona in Tucson and at the University of Lugano in Switzerland. Most recently, he held the Assumption Chair in Argumentation Studies at the University of Windsor in Canada and a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Center for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric .

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Walton dealt in particular with logical and extra-logical fallacies and sometimes works closely with the logician John Woods . Walton's theory of argumentation is also used in legal contexts and in the development of artificial intelligence skills . The pragma dialectician Frans H. van Eemeren summarized the cooperation between Woods and Walton as the Woods-Walton approach and assesses the work as a comprehensive contribution to the exploration of fallacies since Hamblin .

Works (selection)

  • Witness Testimony Evidence: Argumentation, Artificial Intelligence and Law , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
  • Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach , 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
  • with Chris Reed and Fabrizio Macagno: Argumentation Schemes , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
  • with John Woods: Fallacies: Selected Papers 1972-1982 , 2nd edition, College Publications, London, 2007.

literature

  • Christoph Reed, Christopher W. Tindale (2010): Dialectics, Dialogue and Argumentation: An Examination of Douglas Walton's Theories of Reasoning and Argument , College Publications, London.
  • Frans AJ Birrer (2001): Expert Advice and Argumentation: Some Remarks on the Work of Douglas Walton , Argumentation, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 267-276: doi : 10.1023 / A: 1011171711029
  • GC Goddu (2007): Walton on Argument Structure , Informal Logic, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 5-25.
  • Christoph Lumer (2016): Walton's Argumentation Schemes. In: Patrick Bondy; Laura Benaquista (eds.): Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), May 18-21, 2016. Windsor, Canada: University of Windsor 2016. http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi? article = 2286 & context = ossaarchive

supporting documents

  1. ^ Douglas "Doug" Neil Walton Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information. Retrieved January 6, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ FH van Eemeren (2001): Crucial concepts in argumentation theory , Amsterdam University Press, p. 154. ISBN 978-90-5356-523-0

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personal data
SURNAME Walton, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walton, Douglas Neil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian reasoning theorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1942
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2020