Research
The faculty of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge, both present and past, have a long and rich history of producing original and influential research. Below you will find detailed records of their work. If you are unable to access a resource listed below, we invite you to reach out.
Some recent highlights include:
- Balcarras, D. (2023) What is it to have a language? Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 104(4), 837-866.
- Dieleman, S. & Ramberg, B. (2023) Richard Rorty. In Zalta, E. N., & Nodelman, U. (Eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2024 Edition).
- Peacock, K. A. (2024) The Last Loophole in Bell's Theorem? A prima facie problem with superdeterminism. arXiv Preprint.
- Stevens, K. (2024) Sophisms and Contempt for Autonomy. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 57(3), 333–346.
And some of our faculty's most cited and influential works include:
- Brown, B. & Priest, G. (2004) Chunk and Permeate, a Paraconsistent Inference Strategy. Part I: The Infinitesimal Calculus. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 33, 379–388.
- Dieleman, S. (2015) Epistemic Justice and Democratic Legitimacy. Hypatia, 30(4), 794–810.
- Peacock, K. A. (2011) Symbiosis in Ecology and Evolution. In deLaplante, K., Brown, B., & Peacock, K. A. (Eds.), Philosophy of Ecology (pp. 218–250). Elsevier.
- Rodych, V. (2018) Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics. In Zalta, E. N. (Ed.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2018 Edition).
- Stevens, K. (2016) The Virtuous Arguer: One Person, Four Roles. Topoi, 35, 375–383.
- Stingl, M. & Collier, J. (1993) Evolutionary Naturalism and the Objectivity of Morality. Biology and Philosophy, 8, 47–60.
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- (2023) Is meaning cognized? Mind and Language. 38(5), 1276-1295.
- (2023) What is it to have a language? Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 104(4), 837-866.
- (2023) Functionalism and tacit knowledge of grammar. Philosophical Perspectives. 37(1), 18-48.
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Books
- with K. deLapante & K. A. Peacock (Eds.) (2011) Philosophy of Ecology. Elsevier.
- with P. K. Schotch & R. Jennings (Eds.) (2009) On Preserving: Essays on Preservationism and Paraconsistent Logic. University of Toronto Press.
- (2007) Evolution: A Historical Perspective. Greenwood Press.
- with F. Lepage (Eds.) (2006) Truth and Probability: Essays in Honour of Hugues Leblanc. College Publications.
- with J. Woods (Eds.) (2001) Logical Consequences: Rival Approaches. Hermes Science Publishing.
- with D. Braybrooke & P. K. Schotch (1995) Logic on the Track of Social Change. Oxford University Press.
Articles
- (2020) Speaking of Fiction. Journal of Applied Logics, 7(2), 145–161.
- (2018) Inconsistency Measures and Paraconsistent Consequence. In Grant, J. & Martinez, M. V. (Eds.) Measuring Inconsistency in Information. College Publications.
- with C. Potvin et al. (2017) Simulating a Canadian Narrative for Climate. Facets, 2(1), 131–149.
- (2017) Paraconsistency, Pluralistic Models and Reasoning in Climate Science. Humana Mente, 32, 179–194.
- (2017) A Preservationist Perspective on Relevance Logic. Journal of Applied Logics, 4(3), 783–793.
- (2016) On the Preservation of Reliability. In Andreas, H. & Verdee, P. (Eds.) Logical Studies of Paraconsistent Reasoning in Science and Mathematics. (pp. 65-80) Springer.
- (2016) From Consequence Relations to Reasoning Strategies. In Payette, G. (Ed.) "Shut Up" He Explained: Essays in Honour of Peter K. Schotch. College Publications.
- with G. Priest (2015) Chunk and Permeate II: Bohr's Hydrogen Atom. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 5, 297–314.
- (2015) Stipulation and Symmetrical Consequence. In Beziau, J.-Y., Chakraborty, M., & Dutta, S. (Eds.), New Directions in Paraconsistent Logic: 5th WCP, Kolkata, India, February 2014 (pp. 335–352). Springer.
- (2014) Symmetrical Preservation Relations and Cognitive Commitments. In Beziau, J.-Y., Buchsbaum, A., & Altair, A. (Eds.), Handbook of the 5th World Congress on Paraconsistency (pp. 23–25). Indian Statistical Institute.
- (2014) The Shape of Science. Synthese, 191, 3079–3109.
- with J. S. Hoch, C. Mahon, J. Nanson, & L. Rozmovitz (2014) Meaningful patient representation informing Canada’s cancer drug funding decisions: Views of patient representatives on the Pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review. Current Oncology. 21, 263-266.
- (2014) In Defense of Forthright Atheism. In Bauslaugh, G. (Ed.) Voices of Humanism. Rocketday Arts.
- (2013) Consequence as Preservation: Some Refinements. In Tanaka, T., Berto, F., Mares, E. & Paoli, F. (Eds.) Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications. (pp. 123-140) Springer.
- (2011) Ecology as Historical Science. In deLaplante, K., Brown, B., & Peacock, K. A. (Eds.), Philosophy of Ecology (pp. 251–282). Elsevier.
- (2011) Ethics in Darwin's Melancholy Vision. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 42(1), 20–29.
- with K. deLaplante & K. A. Peacock (2011) Philosophy of Ecology Today. In deLaplante, K., Brown, B., & Peacock, K. A. (Eds.), Philosophy of Ecology (pp. 3–22). Elsevier.
- (2010) Robert Latimer's Choice. In Stingl, M. (Ed.), The Price of Compassion: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (pp. 161–186). Broadview Press.
- (2010) Beyond the Brink: Somalia's Health Crisis. Human Rights and Human Welfare, 10(1), 6–16.
- (2009) Ambiguity Games and Preserving Ambiguity Measures. In Schotch, P. K., Brown, B., & Jennings, R. (Eds.), On Preserving: Essays on Preservationism and Paraconsistent Logic (pp. 167–182). University of Toronto Press.
- with D. Nicholson (2009) Representation of Forcing. In Schotch, P. K., Brown, B., & Jennings, R. (Eds.), On Preserving: Essays on Preservationism and Paraconsistent Logic (pp. 139–154). University of Toronto Press.
- (2008) Coherentism and Coherence Truth in the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. In Almeder, R. (Ed.), Rescher Studies: A Collection of Essays on the Philosophical Work of Nicholas Rescher (pp. 59–88). Ontos Verlag.
- (2008) Authority and Civil Disobedience. Humanist Perspectives. 164.
- (2007) Preservationism: A Short History. In Gabbay, D. M. & Woods, J. (Eds.), Handbook of the History of Logic, Volume 8: The Many Valued and Nonmonotonic Turn in Logic (pp. 95–127). Elsevier.
- (2007) Selective Skepticism, Manufactured Doubt and the Politics of Science. Humanist Perspectives. 160, 20-23.
- (2006) Bootstrapping Norms: From Cause to Intention. In Schotch, P. & Sherwin, S. (Eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke (pp. 343–364). University of Toronto Press.
- (2006) Skepticism About the Past and the Problem of Criterion. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 6(2), 291–306.
- (2004) Chunk and Permeate, a Paraconsistent Inference Strategy. Part I: The Infinitesimal Calculus. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 33, 379–388.
- (2004) The Pragmatics of Empirical Adequacy. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 82(2), 242–264.
- (2004) Knowledge and Non-Contradiction. In Priest, G., Beall, J. C., & Armour-Garb, B. (Eds.), The Law of Non-Contradiction (pp. 126–155). Oxford University Press.
- (2003) Notes on Hume and Skepticism of the Senses. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 3(3), 289–303.
- (2002) Approximate Truth: A Paraconsistent Account. In Meheus, J. (Ed.), Inconsistency in Science (pp. 81–103). Springer.
- (2002) Paraconsistent Classical Logic. In Carnielli, W. A., Coniglio, M., & D'ottaviano, I. M. L. (Eds.), Paraconsistency: The Logical Way to the Inconsistent (pp. 95–107). CRC Press.
- (2002) On Paraconsistency. In Jacquette, D. (Ed.), A Companion to Philosophical Logic (pp. 628–650). Blackwell.
- (2000) Simple Natural Deduction for Weakly Aggregative Paraconsistent Logic. In Batens, D., Mortensen, C., Priest, G., & Van Bendegem, J. P. (Eds.), Frontiers of Paraconsistency. Research Studies Press.
- (2000) An empty refinement in Mellor's definition of chances. Analysis, 60(3), 238–243.
- (2000) Critical Notice of D. H. Mellor's The Facts of Causation. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 30(3), 467–494.
- (1999) Adjunction and Aggregation. Noûs, 33(2), 273–283.
- with P. Schotch (1999) Logic and Aggregation. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 28, 265–288.
- (1999) Yes, Virginia, there Really are Paraconsistent Logics. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 28, 489–500.
- (1999) Smoke and Mirrors: A Few Nice Tricks. Dialogue, 38(1), 123–134.
- (1996) Rules and the Rationality of Scientific Cultures. In Braybrooke, D. (Ed.) Social Rules: Origin; Character; Logic; Change. (pp. 53-74) Westview Press.
- (1995) A Solution to the Completeness Problem for Weakly Aggregative Modal Logic. In Apostoli, P. & Brown, B. (Eds.), The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 60(3), 832–842.
- (1993) Old Quantum Theory: A Paraconsistent Approach. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, (2), 396–411.
- (1992) Struggling With Conditionals. Dialogue, 31(2), 327–332.
- (1992) Rational Inconsistency and Reasoning. Informal Logic, 14(1), 5–10.
- (1992) Defending Backwards Causation. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 22(4), 429–443.
- (1990) How to be Realistic about Inconsistency in Science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 21(2), 281–294.
- (1984) Tracking Dummett's Anti-Realism. The Dalhousie Review, 64(3), 584-595.
Book Reviews
- (2015) Review of Understanding Inconsistent Science by Peter Vickers. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 46, 413–418.
- (2004) Review of The Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology by David N. Stamos. Philosophy in Review, 25(5), 371–374.
- (1991) Review of Paraconsistent Logic: Essays on the Inconsistent by Graham Priest, Richard Routley, and Jean Norman. Philosophy in Review, 11(1), 58–60.
- (1987) Review of Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn by James Robert Brown. Dialogue, 26(2), 382–385.
- (1987) Review of Hard Choices: Decision Making under Unresolved Conflict by Isaac Levi. Philosophy in Review, 7(12), 500–503.
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Books
- with D. E. McClean & P. Showler (Eds.) (2022) The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination. Routledge.
- with D. Rondel & C. Voparil (Eds.) (2017) Pragmatism and Justice. Oxford University Press.
Articles
- (2023) Richard Rorty: Narrative as Anti-Authoritarian Therapy and as Cultural Politics. In Aikin, S. & Talisse, R. (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism. Routledge.
- with B. Ramberg (2023) Richard Rorty. In Zalta, E. N., & Nodelman, U. (Eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2024 Edition).
- (2022) Speaking for Oneself: Stolen Vocabularies and Imposed Vocabularies. In Dieleman, S., McClean, D. E., & Showler, P. (Eds.), The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination.
- (2022) Introduction: Stretched Thin: Rorty's Ethical Vision. In Dieleman, S., McClean, D. E., & Showler, P. (Eds.), The Ethics of Richard Rorty: Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination. Routledge (pp. 1-16).
- (2022) Traveling with a Reconstructed Pragmatist Map: A Commentary on Chris Voparil's Reconstructing Pragmatism. Contemporary Pragmatism, 19(4), 401–409.
- (2022) Richard Rorty and the Epistemic Defense of Democracy. Contemporary Pragmatism, 19(3), 151–169.
- (2021) We're All Winston Now: Losing One's Self in a Post-Truth Society. Forma de Vida, 20.
- (2021) Thinking with Rorty about How to Make Philosophy more Livable. In Marchetti, G. (Ed.), The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty. Routledge (pp. 209-225).
- (2021) Tinkering with Truth, Tinkering with Difference: Rorty and (Liberal) Feminism. In Rondel, D. (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Richard Rorty. Cambridge University Press (pp. 179–200).
- (2021) Cultural Politics, Critical Reflexivity, and Post-Truth Politics: A Response to Clayton Chin's The Practice of Political Theory: Rorty and Continental Thought. Contemporary Pragmatism, 18(4), 349–357.
- (2019) Toward a Pragmatist Feminist Egalitarianism: Redescribing the Vertical-Horizontal Debate From a Feminist Perspective. Contemporary Pragmatism, 16(4), 319–328.
- (2019) Class Politics and Cultural Politics. Pragmatism Today, 10(1), 23–36.
- (2017) Realism, Pragmatism, and Critical Social Epistemology. In Dieleman, S., Rondel, D., & Voparil, C. (Eds.), Pragmatism and Justice. Oxford University Press (pp. 129–143).
- (2017) What Would it Mean to Call Rorty a Deliberative Democrat?. Contemporary Pragmatism, 14(3), 319–333.
- (2016) Responsibilism and the Analytic-Sociological Debate in Social Epistemology. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2(2).
- (2015) The Energies of Women: William James and the Ethics of Care. In Sullivan, S. & Tarver, E. (Eds.), Feminist Interpretations of William James. Penn State University Press (pp. 121-140).
- (2015) Epistemic Justice and Democratic Legitimacy. Hypatia, 30(4), 794–810.
- with M. G. Navarro & E. Simbürger (2015) The Politics of Social Epistemology. In Collier, J. H. (Ed.), The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision. Roman and Littlefield (pp. 55–64).
- (2014) Pragmatist Tools for Public Administration. Administration and Society, 49(2), 275–295.
- (2014) Locating Rorty: Feminism and Poststructuralism, Experience and Language. The Pluralist, 9(3), 110–120.
- (2014) Urban Agriculture, the Idyllic Farmer, and Stupid Knowing. Social Philosophy Today, 30, 47–62.
- (2013) The Contingent Status of Epistemic Norms: Rorty, Kantian Pragmatisms, and Feminist Epistemologies. In Groeschner, A., Koopman, C., & Sandbothe, M. (Eds.), Richard Rorty: From Pragmatist Philosophy to Cultural Politics. Bloomsbury.
- (2012) Solving The Problem of Epistemic Exclusion: A Pragmatist Feminist Approach. In Hamington, M., & Bardwell-Jones, C. (Eds.), Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism (pp. 90–114). Routledge.
- (2011) The Roots of Rorty's Philosophy: Catharine A. MacKinnon. Pragmatism Today, 2(1), 123–132.
- (2011) Should we agree to disagree? Pragmatism and peer disagreeement. OSSA Conference Archives, 64, 1–11.
- (2010) Revisiting Rorty: Contributions to a Pragmatist Feminism. Hypatia, 25(4), 891–908.
Book Reviews
- (2023) Rorty, Brandom, and Women. Metascience, 32, 391–394.
- (2021) Review of Rorty and Beyond, edited by Randall Auxier, Eli Kramer, and Krzysztof Piotr Skowrońksi. American Journal of Theology and Philosophy.
- (2021) Review of Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism, by Tracy Llanera. Metaphilosophy.
- (2021) Philosopher-Chairpersons & Rortyan Deposits: Response to Deweyan Experimentalism and the Problem of Method in Political Philosophy, by Joshua Forstenzer. Syndicate.
- (2019) Against Ideal Theory Ignorance: Review of Understanding Ignorance, by Daniel R. DeNicola. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. 9(5), 11-15.
- (2016) Review of Defending Rorty: Pragmatism and Liberal Virtue, by William M. Curtis. Contemporary Pragmatism. 13(4), 441-444.
- (2016) Review of The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism, edited by Alan Malachowski. Dialogue. 55(2), 385-386.
- (2016) Review of Gendered Readings of Change: A Feminist-Pragmatist Approach, by Clara Fischer. Hypatia Reviews Online. E41.
- (2014) Review of Communication and Creative Democracy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Omar Swartz. Education and Culture. 30(1), 101-105.
- (2012) Review of Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger, and Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, edited by Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. 1(2), 11-25.
- (2011) Review of Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty, edited by Marianne Janack. Social Theory and Practice. 37(4), 705-711.
- (2011) Review of The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy’s Future by Carol Gilligan and David A.J. Richards. APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy. 10(2), 19-20.
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Books
- (In Progress) Basic Symbolic Logic.
- (In Progress) Sustainability as Symbiosis: An Ecological Vision of the Prospects for Humanity on a Living Planet.
- (2018) Quantum Heresies. College Publications.
- with K. deLaplante and B. Brown (Eds.) (2011) Philosophy of Ecology. Elsevier.
- (2008) The Quantum Revolution: A Historical Perspective. Greenwood Press.
- with A. D. Irvine (Eds.) (2005) Mistakes of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods. University of Toronto Press.
- (1996) Living With the Earth: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy. Harcourt Brace Canada.
Articles
- (2024) The Last Loophole in Bell's Theorem? A prima facie problem with superdeterminism. arXiv Preprint.
- (2023) The Hamiltonian for Entangled States Cannot Be Additive. arXiv Preprint.
- (2023) We Are the Emergency. In Lucy Weir (Ed.), Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency: An Exploration of Urgent Matters (pp. 57–69). Palgrave Macmillan.
- (2022) As Much as Possible, As Soon as Possible: Getting Negative About Emissions. Ethics, Policy, and Environment, 25(3), 281–296.
- (2019) Virtue in the Anthropocene. In T. DesRoches, F. Jankunis, and B. Williston (Eds.), Canadian Environmental Philosophy (pp. 181–198). McGill-Queen’s University Press.
- (2018) Fermi and Lotka: The Long Odds of Survival in a Dangerous Universe. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 71(6), 207–211.
- (2018) A Different Kind of Rigor: What Climate Scientists Can Learn from Emergency Room Doctors. Ethics, Policy, and Environment, 21(2), 194–214.
- (2017) Energy, Complexity, and the Singularity. In V. Callaghan, J. Miller, R. Yampolskiy, and S. Armstrong (Eds.), The Singularity Hypothesis: Managing the Journey (pp. 153–165). Springer.
- (2017) La Durabilité comme Symbiose : Qu'est ce que cela nécessiterait?. In Alexandre Guay and Stéphanie Ruphy (Eds.), Science, philosophie, société : 4e congrès de la Société des Sciences (pp. 131–142). Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté.
- (2017) Happiest Thoughts: Great Thought Experiments of Modern Physics. In Michael T. Stuart, Yiftach Fehige, and James Robert Brown (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments (pp. 211–242). Routledge.
- (2017) Do Businesspeople Need to be Professionals?. In Peg Tittle (Ed.), Ethical Issues in Business: Inquiries, Cases, and Readings, Second Edition (p. 556). Broadview Press.
- with Andrew Tedder (2016) Identity, Haecceity, and the Godzilla Problem. In Gillman Payette (Ed.), “Shut up,” he explained. Essays in Honour of Peter K. Schotch (pp. 63–79). College Publications.
- (2015) Philosophy in the Anthropocene. In Kishor Vaidya (Ed.), Philosophy for the Curious. The Curious Academic Publishing.
- (2014) Would Superluminal Influences Violate the Principle of Relativity?. Lato Sensu: revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences, 1(1), 49–62.
- (2014) Realism in a Quantum World. In Jeffrey Foss (Ed.), Science and the World: Philosophical Approaches (pp. 251–264). Broadview Press.
- (2011) The Three Faces of Ecological Fitness. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 42, 99–105.
- with Bryson Brown and Kevin deLaplante (2011) Philosophy of Ecology Today. In Kevin deLaplante, Bryson Brown, and Kent A. Peacock (Eds.), Philosophy of Ecology (pp. 3–22). Elsevier.
- (2011) Symbiosis in Ecology and Evolution. In Kevin deLaplante, Bryson Brown, and Kent A. Peacock (Eds.), Philosophy of Ecology (pp. 218–250). Elsevier.
- (2008) Sustainability---The Very Idea!. Alternatives Journal, 34(4), 28.
- (2008) Ecosystems. In Sahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski (Eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology (pp. 351–367). Blackwell.
- with John Woods (2004) Quantum Logic and the Unity of Science. In S. Rahman, J. Symons, D.M. Gabbay, and J.-P. Van Bendegem (Eds.), Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (pp. 257–287). Kluwer.
- (2002) Bub and the Barriers to Quantum Ontology. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 16(3), 281–285.
- with Brian Hepburn (2000) Begging the Signalling Question: Quantum Signalling and the Dynamics of Multiparticle Systems. In B. Brown and J. Woods (Eds.), Logical Consequences: Rival Approaches and New Studies in Exact Philosophy: Logic, Mathematics, and Science, Vol. II (pp. 279–292). Hermes Science Publishers.
- (1999) Staying Out of the Lifeboat: Sustainability, Culture, and the Thermodynamics of Symbiosis. Ecosystem Health, 5(2), 91–103.
- (1999) Symbiosis and the Ecological Role of Philosophy. Dialogue, 38(4), 699–717.
- (1998) Superluminal Transformations in Spacetimes of Definite Metric. In Geoffrey Hunter, Stanley Jeffers, and Jean-Pierre Vigier (Eds.), Causality and Locality in Modern Physics: Proceedings of a Symposium in Honour of Jean-Pierre Vigier (pp. 227–234). Kluwer.
- (1998) On the Edge of a Paradigm Shift: Quantum Nonlocality and the Breakdown of Peaceful Coexistence. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 12(2), 129–149.
- with Jan Shepherd (1998) Knowledge versus Opinion: Two Models of Professionalism. In A. Carson and J. McCutcheon (Eds.), Educating the Ethical Professional: Proceedings of the Third Annual Laurier Conference on Business and Professional Ethics (pp. 84–92). Wilfred Laurier University.
- (1992) A New Look at Simultaneity. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1992(1), 542–552.
- (1992) Comment on 'Tests of Signal Locality and Einstein-Bell Locality' by S. Roy and V. Singh. Physical Review Letters, 69(18), 2377.
Book Reviews
- (2020) The Duty to Communicate: Review of Ethics and Practice in Science Communication (Susanna Priest, Jean Goodwin, & Michael F. Dahlstrom eds.). BioScience, 70(8), 719–721.
- (2011) The Two Faces of Gaia: Review of The Medea Hypothesis by Peter Ward. Alternatives Journal, 37(1), 35–36.
- (2007) The Symbiotic Vision: Review of Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution by Lynn Margulis and The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back— and How We Can Still Save Humanity by James Lovelock. Alternatives Journal, 33(4), 35–36.
- (2006) Progress Traps: Review of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, and A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright. Alternatives Journal, 32(3), 38–41.
- (2003) Review of Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology by Eric Katz, Andrew Light, and David Rothenberg. Philosophy in Review, 23(2), 116–118.
- (2002) Review of Quantum Theory and the Flight From Realism by Christopher Norris. Philosophy in Review, XXII(2), 138–140.
- (2000) Review of Studies in Scientific Realism by André Kukla. University of Toronto Quarterly, Letters in Canada (Winter/Spring 1999/2000), 69(1), 129–.
- (1999) Review of Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal by James T. Cushing, Arthur Fine, and Sheldon Goldstein. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 13(2), 197–200.
- (1999) Review of The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie. Dialogue, 38(3), 650–653.
- (1998) Critical Notice of From Physics to Metaphysics by Michael Redhead. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 28(2), 287–309.
- (1998) Review of The Dilemma of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen — 60 Years Later edited by A. Mann and M. Revzen. Mathematical Reviews, 98i, 5947–5948.
- (1997) Review of Re-examining the assumption that elements of reality can be Lorentz-invariant by O. Cohen and B. J. Hiley. Mathematical Reviews, 97a, 81008.
- (1997) Review of Relativistic Covariance and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by E. Marx. Mathematical Reviews, 97j, 6415.
- (1997) Review of The Invented Universe: The Einstein-de Sitter Controversy (1916–17) and the Rise of Relativistic Cosmology by Pierre Kerszberg. ProtoSociology, 10, 234–237.
- (1996) Review of Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics by Tim Maudlin. Philosophical Review, 105(2), 259–262.
- (1995) Review of A Model of the Universe: Space-Time, Probability and Decision by Storrs McCall. The Review of Metaphysics, 49(2), 419–420.
- (1993) Review of Quantum Mechanics by Leslie Ballentine. Physics in Canada, 49(6), 394–395.
- with James R. Brown (1988) Review of Incompleteness, Nonlocality and Realism by Michael Redhead. Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 8(8), 316–320.
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Books
- with I. M. Copi & C. Cohen (2019) Introduction to Logic: Fifteenth Edition. Routledge
Articles
- (2018) Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics. In Zalta, E. N. (Ed.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2018 Edition). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. (Substantial revision of Rodych (2007).)
- (2008) Mathematical Sense: Wittgenstein’s Syntactical Structuralism. In: Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information, Pichler, A. & Hrachovec, H. (Eds.), From Ontos Verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (Vol. 6), 81–103.
- (2007) Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics. In Zalta, E. N. (Ed.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.
- (2006) Who is Wittgenstein’s Worst Enemy?: Steiner on Wittgenstein on Gödel. Logique et Analyse, 49(193), 55–84.
- (2005) Are Platonism and Pragmatism Compatible?. In Mistakes of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods. Peacock, K. & Irvine, A. D. (Eds.) University of Toronto Press (pp. 78–92).
- (2003) Searle Freed of Every Flaw. Acta Analytica, 18, 161–175.
- (2003) Popper versus Wittgenstein on Truth, Necessity, and Scientific Hypotheses. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 34, 323–336.
- (2003) Misunderstanding Gödel: New Arguments about Wittgenstein and New Remarks by Wittgenstein. Dialectica, 57(3), 279–313.
- (2002) Wittgenstein on Gödel: The Newly Published Remarks. Erkenntnis, 56(3), 379–397.
- (2001) Gödel's ‘Disproof’ of the Syntactical Viewpoint. Southern Journal of Philosophy, 39(4), 527–555.
- (2000) Wittgenstein’s Critique of Set Theory. Southern Journal of Philosophy, 38(2), 281–319.
- (2000) Wittgenstein’s Anti-Modal Finitism. Logique et Analyse, 43(171/172), 249–282.
- (1999) Wittgenstein's Inversion of Gödel's Theorem. Erkenntnis, 51(2/3), 173–206.
- (1999) Wittgenstein on Irrationals and Algorithmic Decidability. Synthese, 118(2), 279–304.
- (1997) Wittgenstein on Mathematical Meaningfulness, Decidability, and Application. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 38(2), 195–224.
Reviews
- (2004) Review of John Searle, edited by Barry Smith. Philosophy in Review, 24(5), 365–367.
- (1995) Review of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics by P. Frascolla. Philosophia Mathematica, 3(3).
Books
- (Forthcoming) The Ethics of Argumentation. Routledge.
- with S. Aikin & J. Casey (Eds.) (Forthcoming) The Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory. Routledge.
Articles
- (2024) Waluchow's Theory of Constitutional Interpretation from a Rhetorical-Argumentative Point of View. In Bustamante, T., de Matos, S., & Coelho, A. L. S. (Eds.), Law, Morality and Judicial Reasoning: Essays on W. J. Waluchow’s Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory (pp. 183–200). Springer.
- (2024) Sophisms and Contempt for Autonomy. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 57(3), 333–346.
- with J. Casey (2024). Autonomy and Argumentation: An Introduction. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 57(3), 270–275.
- (2023) Precedent Slippery Slopes. In Endicott, T., Kristj'ansson, H. D., & Lewis, S. (Eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (pp. 459–474). Oxford University Press.
- (2023) Humility as a Necessary Virtue in Common-law Decision Making. Jurisprudence, 14(4), 443–461.
- (2023) Asking before Arguing? Consent in Argumentation. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 1(1), 1–14.
- (2022) Silence at the Meta-Level: A Story about Argumentative Cruelty. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 55(1), 76–82.
- (2022) On the Occasion of the First Argumentation Network of the Americas Special Issue. Argumentation and Advocacy, 58(3–4), 302–305.
- with N. Lokstadt (2022) How the Ideal Adversary System's Argumentative Structure Threatens Dignity. In Penner, J., & McBride, M. (Eds.), New Essays on the Nature of Legal Reasoning. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- (2021) Precedent. In LaFollette, H. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Wiley.
- (2021) Argument is Moral: Using Walton's Dialectical Tools to Evaluate Argumentation from a Moral Perspective. Journal of Applies Logics, 8(1), 137–158.
- (2021) Charity for Moral Reasons? — A Defense of the Principle of Charity in Argumentation. Argumentation and Advocacy, 57(2), 67–84.
- (2021) Fooling the Victim: Of Straw Men and Those Who Fall for Them. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 54(2), 109–127.
- with D. H. Cohen (2021) Angelic Devil’s Advocates and the Forms of Adversariality. Topoi, 40, 899–912.
- with J. Casey (2021) Introduction: Adversariality in Argument. Topoi, 40, 833–836.
- (2020) Setting Precedents Without Making Norms?. Law and Philosophy, 39, 577–616.
- (2020) Principle of Charity as a Moral Requirement in Non-Institutionalized Argumentation. OSSA Conference Archive, 19, 1–20.
- (2020) On the Puzzling Death of the Sanctity-of-Life Argument. Argumentation, 34, 55–81.
- (2019) The Roles We Make Others Take: Thoughts on the Ethics of Arguing. Topoi, 38, 693–709.
- with D. H. Cohen (2019) The Attraction of the Ideal has No Traction on the Real: On Adversariality and Roles in Argument. Argumentation and Advocacy, 55(1), 1–23.
- (2018) Reasoning by Precedent — Between Rules and Analogies. Legal Theory, 24(3), 216–254.
- (2018) Case-to-Case Arguments. Argumentation, 32, 431–455.
- (2018) The Constraining Force of Analogies and the Role of the Judge. In Himma, K. E., Jovanovi'c, M. A., & Spai'c, B. (Eds.), Unpacking Normativity: Conceptual, Normative, and Descriptive Issues (pp. 187–205). Bloomsbury.
- (2018) Trump, Snakes and the Power of Fables. Informal Logic, 38(1), 53–83.
- (2017) Does Rhetoric Have a Place in Wohlrapp's Theory of Argument?. Informal Logic, 37(3), 183–210.
- (2017) Why Constitutional Meaning is not Necessarily Fixed — A Reply to Solum. Problema anuario de filosofía y teoría del derecho, 11, 177–214.
- with D. H. Cohen (2016) Virtuous Vices: On Objectivity, Bias, and Virtue in Argumentation. OSSA Conference Archive, 70, 1–11.
- (2016) The Virtuous Arguer: One Person, Four Roles. Topoi, 35, 375–383.
- with W. J. Waluchow (2016). Common Law Constitutionalism and the Written Constitution. In Bustamante, T., & Fernandes, B. G. (Eds.), Democratizing Constitutional Law: Perspectives on Legal Theory and the Legitimacy of Constitutionalism (pp. 275–291). Springer.
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Books
- with J. Collier (2019) Evolutionary Moral Realism. Routledge.
- (Ed.) (2010) The Price of Compassion: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Broadview Press.
- with D. Wilson (Eds.) (1996) Efficiency vs. Equality: Health Reform in Canada. Fernwood Press.
Articles
- (2020) Public Health from a Feminist Point of View: A Commentary on “Public Health and Precarity” by Michael D. Doan and Ami Harbin. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 13(2), 131–134.
- (2016) Smartening Up: Animal Cognition from an Evolutionary Point of View. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 91(4), 487–490.
- with J. Collier (2013). Evolutionary Moral Realism. Biological Theory, 7, 218–226.
- (2005) Engineered Death and the (Il)logic of Social Change. In Peacock, K. A., & Irvine, A. D. (Eds.), Mistakes of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods (pp. 453–473). University of Toronto Press.
- with J. Collier (2005) Reasonable Partiality from a Biological Point of View. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 8, 11–24.
- with Wilson, D. M., Northcott, H. C., Truman, C. D., Smith, S. L., Anderson, M. C., & Fainsinger, R. L. (2001) Location of Death in Canada: A Comparison of 20th-Century Hospital and Nonhospital Locations of Death and Corresponding Population Trends. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 24(4), 385–403.
- with J. Collier (2000). All the Monkeys Aren't in the Zoo: Evolutionary Ethics and the Possibility of Moral Knowledge. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 30(1), 245–265.
- (1997) Ethics I (1900–45). In Canfield, J. V. (Ed.), Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge and Value in the Twentieth Century (pp. 89–108). Routledge.
- (1996) Evolutionary Ethics and Moral Theory. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 30, 531–545.
- (1996) Equality and Efficiency as Basic Social Values. In Stingl, M., & Wilson, D. (Eds.), Efficiency vs. Equality: Health Reform in Canada. Fernwood Publishing. Reprinted in Gedge, E. & Waluchow, W. J. (Eds.) (2012), Readings in Health Care Ethics (Second Edition), and in Koggel, C. (Ed.) (2006), Moral Issues in Global Perspective, Volume 2: Human Diversity and Equality.
- with J. Collier (1993) Evolutionary Naturalism and the Objectivity of Morality. Biology and Philosophy, 8, 47–60.
Book Reviews
- (2013) Review of Love as a Guide to Morals by Andrew Fitz-Gibbon. Teaching Philosophy, 36(3), 313–316.
- (2005) Review of What Makes Us Moral? Crossing the Boundaries of Biology by Neil Levy. Philosophy in Review, 25(5), 364–366.
- (2005) Review of Without a Tear: Our Tragic Relationship with Animals by Mark H. Bernstein. Philosophy in Review, 25(2), 85–89.
- (2005) Review of Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights by Tom Regan. Philosophy in Review, 25(2), 85–89.
- (1998) Still Waiting for Rain: Review of Rain without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement by Gary L. Francione. BioScience, 48(5), 407–408.
- (1991) Review of Interpreting Political Responsibility by John Dunn. Philosophy in Review, 11(6), 390–392.