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Visiting Researchers

Huihua Li

Beijing Sport University, China: Dec. 2021 - Nov. 2022
Critical thinking and improving student performance


Léa Farine

University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Sept. 2021 - May 2022
Rhetorical and argumentative aspects of conditional construction


Bárbara Amaral de Silva

Brazil: Sept. 2020 - Oct. 2021
History of rhetoric


Davide Cattani

University of Trento, Italy: Oct. 2019 - Nov. 2019
Argumentation in Law


Xie Ting (Elsa)

East China Normal University, Shanghai, China: Sept. 2019 - Aug. 2020


Marko Novak

Professor, New University Delpinova, Slovenia: Apr. 2019 - May 2019


Mindaugas Gilaitis

Professor, Vilnius University, Lithuania: Apr. 2019 - June 2019


Liao Yanlin (Alan)

Nanjing University of China, Nanjing, China: Sept. 2018 - Aug. 2019


Mustafa Yesil

Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Konya, Turkey: Jan - July 2019


Mathieu Beirlaen

Ghent University, Belgium: October 2018


Jianfeng Wang

Professor, Fujian Normal University, P. R. China. September 2017 to May 2018.


Javier Vilanova Arias

Professor, Departamento de Lógica y Filosofia de la Ciencia Facultad de Filosofia de la Universidad Complutense, Spain. March to June 2017.


Christopher Roser

Christopher Roser

Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy, Research Training Group: Philosophy, Science and the Sciences Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. March 2017.


Federico Puppo

Federico Puppo

Professor of Philosophy of Law, CERMEG- Research Centre on Legal Methodology, Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Italy. July 2016.


Sun Lin

Professor, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. Sabbatical, February 2015 to February 2016.


Zhang Shuxue

Professor, Dalian Maritime University, China. September to December 2014.


Marc Angenot

Marc Angenot

James McGill Chair in Social Discourse, McGill University, Quebec: November 2013.


Wei Chen

Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China: September to October 2013.


Qiao Guo

Deputy Director, School of Public Administration, Henan University, China. October 2013 to August 2014.


Daniel Fasko, Jr.

Professor of Educational Psychology, Educational Foundations & Inquiry Program, Bowling Green University: September to December 2013.


Bruno Leclercq

Bruno Leclercq

Professeur do Philosophie analytique et logique, Université de Liège. Sabbatical, March to June 2014.


Jens Kjeldson

Professor of rhetoric and visual communication at University of Bergen/Södertörn University, Norway; Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, and President of the Rhetoric Society of Europe (RSE): April 2013.


Andrew Aberdein

Andrew Aberdein

Humanities and Communication, Florida Institute of Technology, and Visiting Researcher, Informatics, University of Edinburgh: May 2013


Marcin Koszowy

Marcin Koszowy

Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Bialystok: May - June 2013


Dr. Stephen Patterson

Steven Patterson

CRRAR is pleased to welcome Dr. Steven Patterson from the Philosophy Department at Marygrove College, Detroit, as Visiting Research Fellow for the period September 1, 2009 - June 30, 2013. Professor Patterson has his Ph.D. in philosophy from Wayne State University (2003). He specializes in social and political theory, ethics, and human rights. His recent research involves the incorporation and application of insights from argumentation theory to problems in democratic theory. While a CRRAR Visiting Fellow he will be developing both new and existing projects on dialogical norms for religiously based political participation, the role of truth as a norm in civic discourse, the social value of argumentation, and the definition of argument.


Minghui Xiong

Minghui Xiong

Prof. Dr. XIONG Minghui, is Full Professor and Vice-Director of the Institute of Logic and Cognition at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, P.R. China.


Trudy Govier

CRRAR Distinguished Visiting Researcher

Trudy Govier

Trudy Govier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge. She has been active in the field of informal logic and argumentation studies for many years and is the author of the widely used text, A Practical Study of Argument (seven editions) and several collections including The Philosophy of Argument (1999).  Govier also writes in the area of social philosophy and takes a keen interest in issues pertaining to peace and conflict. She has been active in the not-for-profit sector and is known for her ability to relate philosophical themes to real world practical problems.


Dr. Gerard Houser

Gerard Houser


Dr. Christian Plantin


Prof. Rongdong Jin

Professor of logic, Department of Philosophy/Centre for Research in Knowledge and Action, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Prof. Jin graduated with a Ph.D. in Philosophy from East China Normal University in 1998. He specializes in Chinese philosophy (especially, language and logic in ancient China), informal logic, and critical thinking. He has published several books, including A Brief History of Legalism (1995, 2001), A Study of Li Dazhao's Philosophy (2000), What Can Logics Do? Reflections on Logics in Contemporary China from a Perspective of Modernity (2005). In 2005, he became an enlisted professor for the Program of New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education, the P.R.C.. He is a vice-chair of the Committee of History of Chinese Logic, The Chinese Association of Logic since 2007.

Sponsored by China Scholarship Council, Prof. Jin will work at the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric as a visiting research scholar from September 2009 to August 2010. His research projects during this period are (1) to address some philosophical issues of informal logic, such as the notion of rationality, the concept of knowledge and the concept of rule presupposed by informal logicians; (2) to consider the possibility of reconstructing ancient Chinese logic in terms of informal logic.


Dr. Fabrizio Macagno

Born in Cuneo, Italy, on October 14th, 1979, Fabrizio Macagno graduated in 2003 from l’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. He specialized in linguistics and communication, and defended a master thesis in Linguistics on the topic of presupposition. In 2008 he defended his PhD dissertation, The Argumentative Uses of Definition. He teaches at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and collaborates as a consultant with an international law firm, Martinez & Novebaci.


Cristián Santibáñez

Cristian Santibanez

Dr. Cristián Santibáñez, Professor of Linguistics Center of Argumentation Studies Diego Portales University, Chile presented his paper Recurrent Argumentative Strategies in Political Chilean Discourse to the Centre in March 2007.


Frank Zenker

Frank Zenker

Frank Zenker presented two papers in February of 2007 while completing his PhD at the University of Calgary/University of Hamburg. One of his papers was on human embryo research and the other was about Ceteris Paribus clauses.


Takuzo Konishi

Takuzo Konishi

Takuzo Konishi (PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh and graduate of Windsor's MA program in Philosophy) interviewed CRRAR researchers for his doctoral research project on the oral history of contemporary argumentation theory.


Michael Leff

Michael Leff

From February 25-27, the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric hosted Dr. Michael Leff, Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis, as a visiting research scholar.  Dr. Leff had individual discussions with members of CRRAR, gave a lecture open to students and the public, and participated in a roundtable.


Thomas Gordon

Thomas Gordon

Dr. Thomas F. Gordon is a computer scientist and lawyer at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, where he conducts research on governance technology and related topics, including artificial intelligence and law, legal rule-based systems, legal informatics and computational models of legal argumentation. The goal of this research is to provide software tools for tasks in the policy life cycle: agenda setting, analysis, policy development and legislation, implementation (including administrative rule making and electronic service delivery), and monitoring.