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 30, No 2 (2010)

Table of Contents

Articles

A pragma-dialectical response to objectivist epistemic challenges Abstract PDF
Bart Garssen, Jan Albert van Laar 122-141
Truth and Argument Evaluation Abstract PDF
Patrick Bondy 142-158
Why Fallacies Appear to be Better Arguments Than They Are Abstract PDF
Douglas Walton 159-184
The Metaphoric Fallacy to a Deductive Inference Abstract PDF
Michael P Berman, Brian A Lightbody 185-193



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
Ruth Amossy, Tel-Aviv University
Richard Andrews, University of London
Sharon Bailin, Simon Fraser University
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
Merrilee Salmon, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Scriven, Claremont Graduate University
Harvey Siegel, University of Miami
Christina Slade, City University London
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