Derek Allen
Position:
Emeritus Professor
Campus:
St. George,Email Address:
Phone Number:
416-653-4344
Biography:
- BA, MA, University of Toronto
- BPhil (now MPhil.), DPhil, University of Oxford
Research Interests:
Critical Thinking, Ethics, Informal Logic, Marxism
Publications:
Selected, Recent:
- Validity. In J. Anthony Blair (Ed.) Studies in Critical Thinking, 2nd edition, 37-49 (2021). Windsor, ON: Windsor Studies in Argumentation.
- Allen, D., Bailin, S., Battersby, M. & Freeman, J. Critical Thinking. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education (2020). New York: Oxford University Press. (Online; no page numbers).
- Justification in ethics. In J. Anthony Blair & Christopher W. Tindale (Eds.), Rigour and Reason: Essays in Honour of Hans Vilhelm Hansen, 143-173 (2020). Windsor, ON: Windsor Studies in Argumentation.
- Evidence, Persuasion and Diversity. Informal Logic, 40(2), 237-254 (2020). A slightly revised version of a keynote address given at an international virtual conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, June 2020.
- “Wohlrapp’s Concept of Justification.” Informal Logic, Vol. 37, No 3 (2017).
- “Aboriginal Title and Sustainable Development: A Case Study.” Forum on Public Policy, Vol. 2016, No 2.
- “The very idea of ethical arguments.” International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Proceedings 2014.
- “Trudy Govier and Premise Adequacy.” Informal Logic, 33(2), 2013: 116-42.
- “Conductive Arguments and the Toulmin Model: A Case Study.” In J.A. Blair & R.H. Johnson (Eds.), Conductive Argument: An Overlooked Type of Defeasible Reasoning, 167-90. Studies in Logic: Logic and Argumentation, Vol. 33. London: College Publications, 2011.