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Leo Groarke

 

Leo Groarke began his academic career as a student at the University of Calgary, Simon Fraser University, the University of Helsinki, and the University of Western Ontario. He received his Ph.D. in 1982. Before coming to the University of Windsor, he was Professor of Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he held a number of administrative positions: Chair of the Philosophy Department, Assistant Dean of Arts and Science, Dean of the Brantford Campus, Acting Provost, and Principal/Vice-President of the Brantford Campus. He was appointed Provost/Vice-President Academic at the University of Windsor in 2010.

 
Dr. Groarke’s areas of research and scholarly interest include ancient philosophy, the history of ideas, social and political philosophy, informal logic and argumentation theory. He has published many articles and books. 
 
External Grants / Research Funding

• 2011 Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (Alan Wright, Leo Groarke, Beverley Hamilton, Erika Kustra); Grant for a pilot project to evaluate the Collegiate Learning Assessment exam), $27,583.

Articles

• 2011* David Godden, Leo Groarke and Hans Hansen, “Informal Logic and Argumentation: An Alta Conversation,” 48-62, in Robert C. Rowland, Reasoned Argument and Social Change. Washington: National Communication Association.


• 2011* "Logic, Informal," Stanford World Wide Web Encyclopedia of Philosophy <http://plato.stanford.edu>; major revision and update of 2007 entry.

• 2011* Eveline Feteris, Leo Groarke, José Plug, "A pragma-dialectical analysis of the use of topi that are based on common cultural heritage," in Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics, Eveline Feteris, Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• 2011* “Emotional Arguments: Ancient and Contemporary Views,” Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Argumentation. Amsterdam: International Society for the Study of Argumentation.

Conference Presentations

• 2012 “Arresting Images: A Thick Theory of Argument,” Keynote Adress at the Days of Ivo Skaric, Conference on Rhetoric, Postira, Croatia, April 19-22


• 2011 “Images and/in Argument,” Seventh ArgDiaP Conference, Warsaw, June 15.

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