Selected Publications
Argumentation theory: The design approach
Foundations of the design approach
"Argument Has No Function." Informal Logic 27 (2007): 69-90."One question, two answers." In Argumentation and its Applications, edited by H.V. Hansen et al. Windsor, Ontario: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2002. CD-ROM. 17 pp.
"Comments on [Jacobs'] 'Rhetoric and dialectic from the standpoint of normative pragmatics." Argumentation 14 (2000): 287-292.
Imagining a history
"Towards a Lippmannian Theory of Argument." Paper presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Seattle, WA, May, 2008."Theoretical Pieties, Johnstone's Impiety, and Ordinary Views of Argumentation." Philosophy & Rhetoric 40 (2007): 36-50, reprinted in Philosophy and Rhetoric in Dialogue: Redrawing Their Intellectual Landscape, edited by Gerard A. Hauser. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2008.
"Henry W. Johnstone's Still Unacknowledged Contributions to Contemporary Argumentation Theory." Informal Logic 21 (2001): 41-50, reprinted in Henry W. Johnstone: The Dialogue of Philosophy & Rhetoric, edited by Gerard A. Hauser, 19-31. Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania Communication Association, 2005.
Design accounts of topics in argumentation theory
"Designing Premises." In The Practice of Argumentation, edited by Frans H. Van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser, 99-114. Amsterdam: Walter Benjamins, 2005."Designing Issues." In Dialectic and Rhetoric: The Warp and Woof of Argumentation Analysis, edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser, 81-96. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002.
"Manifestly adequate premises." In Informal Logic @ 25, edited by J.A. Blair et al. Windsor, Ontario: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2003. CD-ROM. 9 pp.
"Institutions for Argument: Cultivating the Formation of Collective Intent." A paper presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Boston, November, 2005.
"Cicero's Authority" (see "Expert Authority," below)
Critiques, largely empirical, of alternative approaches
"Actually existing rules for closing arguments." In Theoretical Issues in Argumentation Research, ed. F.H. van Eemeren and B. Garrsen. (Springer, forthcoming). 22 pp."The Noncooperative Pragmatics of Arguing." In Pragmatics in 2000: Selected Papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference, edited by Eniko T. Nemeth, 263-77. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, 2001.
"Good Argumentation without Resolution." In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, edited by Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, J. Anthony Blair and Charles A. Willard, 255-59. Amsterdam: SicSat, 1999.
Extensions to theorizing the public sphere
"Institutions for Argument" (see "Design accounts" above)."The Public Sphere and the Norms of Transactional Argument." Informal Logic 26 (2005): 151-65.
"We should be studying the norms of debate." In Arguing Communication & Culture: Selected Papers from the Twelfth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, edited by G.T. Goodnight et al., 51-58. Washington, D.C.: National Communication Association, 2002.
Expert Authority in the Civic Sphere
This project began with "design" analyses of the appeal to authority; it is now expanding to an analysis of epistemic or expert authority in particular, and to an examination of its ambiguous roles in civic deliberations."Cicero's Authority." Philosophy & Rhetoric 34 (2001): 38-60.
"Forms of Authority and the Real Ad Verecundiam." Argumentation 12 (1998): 267-80.
Scholarship of teaching & learning argumentation
In this series of papers I examine the "native" theories of students learning to argue.McAndrews, Gina M., Jean Goodwin, and Russell E. Mullen. "Using Environmental and Ethical Issues for Debate in an Introductory Agronomy Course." North American Colleges & Teachers of Agriculture Journal 2006, no. 4 (2006): 54-61 (K.B. Knight Award for outstanding journal article).
"Theoretical Pieties, Johnstone's Impiety, and Ordinary Views of Argumentation." Philosophy & Rhetoric 40 (2007): 36-50(see above under Argumentation Theory).
"What Does Arguing Look Like?" Informal Logic 25 (2005): 79-93.
"What if arguing is central?" Invited talk at the Davis Colloquium in honor of Jonathan Z. Smith, University of California-Davis, February, 2005.
"Students' Perspectives on Debate Exercises in Content Area Classes." Communication Education 52 (2003): 157-63.
"Teaching with an Online Public Forum." In Interactive Learning, edited by D.G. Brown, 127-29. Bolton, MA: Anker Press, 2000. Reprint, Tomorrow's Professor (listserv), #203, 15 March 2000.
Other
"Position paper: On rhetoric and pedagogy." Invited paper at the First Alliance of Rhetoric Society Conference, Evanston, September, 2003."Wigmore's Chart Method." Informal Logic 20 (2001): 223-43.
"Three Faces of the Future." Argumentation & Advocacy 37 (2000): 71-85.
"Deliberation and character," In Argument in a Time of Change: Definitions, Frameworks, and Critiques: Proceedings of the Tenth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, 1997, edited by J.F. Klumpp, 70-74. Annandale, VA: National Communication Association, 1998.
"Perelman, Adhering and Convictions." Philosophy & Rhetoric 28 (1995): 215-33.
"Deliberation in the Ancient Roman Senate." Parliamentary Journal 38, no. 1 (1997): 33-36.