Selected Publications
1. Argumentation theory: The normative pragmatic (a/k/a design) approach
1.1 Foundations of the normative pragmatic 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.
1.2 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.
1.3 Normative pragmatic 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.
(for more, see "2. Authority," below)
1.4 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.
1.5 Extensions to theorizing the public sphere
"Institutions for Argument" (see 1.3 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.
2. Authority, especially expert authority in civic deliberations
This project began with analyses of the appeal to authority in general; 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.with Michael Dahlstrom, Good reasons for trusting climate science communication. Paper presented at the American Meteorological Society convention, 2011.
Trust in experts as a principal-agent problem. In C. Reed & C. W. Tindale (Eds.), Dialectics, Dialogue and Argumentation: An Examination of Douglas Walton's Theories of Reasoning and Argument (pp. 133-143). 2010, London: College Publications.
with Lee Honeycutt, When science goes public: From technical arguments to appeals to authority. Studies in Communication Sciences 9(2) (2010): 19-30.
The Authority of Wikipedia." In J. Ritola (Ed.), Argument Cultures. Windsor, ONT: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2010.
The dilemma of expertise in Sustainable Agriculture, presented at the Rhetoric Society of America conference, 2009.
The authority of the IPCC first assessment report and the manufacture of consensus. Paper presented at the National Communication Association, 2009.
"Cicero's Authority." Philosophy & Rhetoric 34 (2001): 38-60.
"Forms of Authority and the Real Ad Verecundiam." Argumentation 12 (1998): 267-80.
3. Corpus studies of argumentation
These pursue investigations of argument in a "hyperempirical" fashion, using techniques from corpus linguistics.with Viviana Cortes, "Theorists' and practitioners' spatial metaphors for argumentation: A corpus-based approach." In Verbum, forthcoming.
What, in practice, is an argument? In H. V. Hansen, C. W. Tindale, J. A. Blair & R. H. Johnson (Eds.), Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground (pp. 1-44). Windsor, ON, 2010: OSSA.
4. Scholarship of teaching & learning argumentation
In this series of papers I examine the "native" theories of students learning to argue.with Gina McAndrews 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.
5. Other
with Carl Herndl, Lee Honeycutt, Greg Wilson, Scott Graham and David Niedergeses, "Talking Sustainability: Identification and Division in an Iowa Community", in Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, forthcoming."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.