Ph.D., Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago (2002)
Books
Straw Man Arguments: A Study in Fallacy Theory. (with Scott Aikin) 2022. Bloomsbury.
Read a review of Straw Man Arguments in the Times Literary Supplement.
REcent Articles and essays
“What About Whataboutism?” (with Scott Aikin) Social Epistemology. Forthcoming.
“The Ambitious and the Modest Meta-Argumentation Theses” (with Scott Aikin), Res Philosophica, Vol. 101, No. 1, , pp. 163–170, 2024
“Knock Knock: Meta-Argumentative Humor, Who?” (with Scott Aikin), Inquiry: Critical Thinking across the Disciplines. 2023.
“On Halting Meta-Argument with Para-Argument” (with Scott Aikin). Argumentation. 37, 323–340, 2023.
“Free Speech Fallacies as Meta-Argumentative Errors.” (with Scott Aikin). Argumentation 37, 295–305, 2023.
“Asking Before Arguing? Consent in Argumentation” (with Katharina Stevens). Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 2023.
“Fallacies of Meta-Argumentation.” (with Scott Aikin) Philosophy & Rhetoric. Volume 55, Number 4, 2022, pp. 360-385.
“What I fear about living most is wasting my time” Southwest Journal of Philosophy. 38 (2) July 2022.
“How to have better arguments” (with Scott Aikin). Psyche. 2022.
“Beliefs, commitments, and ad baculum arguments.” Languages 7: 107. 2022.
“Argumentation and the Problem of Agreement” (with Scott Aikin). Synthese. 200. 2022.
“Bothsiderism” (with Scott Aikin). Argumentation. 36; 249–268, 2022.
"No place for compromise: Resisting the shift to negotiation." (with David Godden). Argumentation. 2020.
“Adversariality and Argumentation.” Informal Logic. 40 (1) 77-108. 2020,
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