Christopher W. Tindale, PhD
Professor
Argumentation Theory, Greek Philosophy, and Moral Issues,
Director, Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric.
Philosophy
ctindale@uwindsor.ca
Activity between January 1, 2022, and January 1, 2024
Books
Plato’s Reasons: Logician, Rhetorician, Dialectician. New York: SUNY Press. December 2023.
How We Argue: 30 Lessons in Persuasive Communication. New York: Routledge. October 2022.
SSHRC Project: Argumentation & Extremism
“What is Extremism? Advancing Definition in Political Argumentation” (with L. Farine, H. Hassan, N. Kinnish, and D. Mejia) Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy. (February 2023). This publication constitutes a draft of the first chapter of the project.
Articles and Chapters in Books
“Speech Act Theory and Informal Logic,” In Cambridge History of Rhetoric: Volume V 1900- (Daniel M. Gross, Steven Mailloux, LuMing Mao, Eds.) (Fall, 2023)
“Two Wrongs Reasoning and the COVID-19 Pandemic” (with Leo Groarke). In Teoria e Prassi dell’ Informatica Giurudica. Per una Riflessione Filosofica. M. Manzin (Ed.) (2023) Milano: Mimesis Edizioni. pp.39-53.
“Patterns of Argument: Aristotelian Topoi and Argumentation Schemes,” In Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion (Jeanne D. Fahnestock and Randy Allen Harris, Eds.): (2023) pp.27-44.
“Logical fallacies persist in invasion biology and blaming the messengers will not improve accountability in this field: a response to Frank et al.” (with R. Guiaşu) Biology & Philosophy (2023) 38 (3): 1-18.
“Utterer Meaning, Misunderstanding, and Inter-Cultural Argumentation” Languages (Special Issue on Argumentation and Pragmatics) 7, 172. (2022): 1-11. doi.org/10.3390/languages7030172
“Mind the Gap: Kairos in the Spaces of Silence,” Philosophy and Rhetoric Vol 55 (1). (June 2022): 66-71.
Interviews
Enough with Slippery Slopes, Freakonomics podcast. June 2023.
“Rhetoric and Interdisciplinarity: A Conversation with Christopher Tindale” (in English, and in Spanish and Portuguese translations) EID&A – Electronic Journal of Integrated Studies in Discourse and Argumentation [Brazil]. (June 2022): 153-200.
Updated: JJanuary 31, 2025