Informal Logic

INFORMAL LOGIC is a peer reviewed journal publishing articles and reviews on topics related to reasoning and argumentation in theory and practice. It is deliberately multi-disciplinary, welcoming theoretical and empirical research from any pertinent field, including, but not restricted to, philosophy, rhetoric, communication, linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, education, law.

Vol 32, No 1 (2012)

Table of Contents

Articles

A Unitary Schema for Arguments by Analogy PDF
Lilian Bermejo-Luque 1-24
Scaring the Public: Fear Appeal Arguments in Public Health Reasoning PDF
Louise Cummings 25-50
The Epistemic Inferiority of Pragma-Dialectics – Reply to Botting PDF
Christoph Lumer 51-82
The Curious Silence of the Dog and Paul of Tarsus; Revisiting The Argument from Silence PDF
Michael Gary Duncan 83-97
The Paradox of Analogy PDF
David Botting 98-115
Toulmin’s “Analytic Arguments” PDF
Ben Hamby 116-131

Critical Reviews

Mercier and Sperber’s Argumentative Theory of Reasoning: From Psychology of Reasoning to Argumentation Studies PDF
Cristián Santibáñez Yáñez 132-159



Editors

J. Anthony Blair
Ralph H. Johnson
Hans V. Hansen
Christopher W. Tindale

University of Windsor
Editorial Board

Jonathan Adler, City University of New York
Derek Allen, University of Toronto
Ruth Amossy, Tel-Aviv University
Richard Andrews, University of London
Sharon Bailin, Simon Fraser University
Daniel H. Cohen, Colby College
Frans H. van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam
Robert Ennis, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Maurice Finocchiaro, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
James B. Freeman, City College of New York
Michael A. Gilbert, York University
Geoff Goddu, University of Richmond
Jean Goodwin, Iowa State University
Trudy Govier, University of Lethbridge
Leo Groarke, University of Windsor
Dale Hample, University of Maryland
David Hitchcock, McMaster University
Sally Jackson, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Fred J. Kauffeld, Edgewood College
Christian Kock, University of Copenhagen
Lenore Langsdorf, University of Southern Illinois
Christoph Lumer, University of Siena
Robert C. Pinto, University of Windsor
Chris Reed, University of Dundee
Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh
Lance Rips, Northwestern University
Michael Scriven, Claremont Graduate University
Harvey Siegel, University of Miami
Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, University of Amsterdam
John Woods, University of British Columbia & King's College, London
Douglas Walton, University of Windsor
Larry Wright, University of California at Riverside
David Zarefsky, Northwestern University





ISSN: 0824-2577