Jan 10th, 2019
A lecture Friday will introduce a tool to diagnose sophistical tactics fallacies.
A lecture Friday will introduce a tool to diagnose sophistical tactics fallacies.
Philosophy professor Douglas Walton will discuss a system for evaluating arguments in a free public lecture Thursday.
The Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric presents distinguished research fellow Douglas Walton delivering his free public lecture “An Argumentation Model of Defeasible Scientific Knowledge” at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, February 8, in the seminar room, Parker House.
In his discussion, Dr. Walton presents a model of the procedure whereby argumentation is used to justify the claim that a given proposition should have the status of scientific knowledge.