Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice

Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice

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Publisher: J.A. Blair and R.H. Johnson

Informal Logic is a peer reviewed journal publishing articles and reviews on
topics related to reasoning and argumentation in theory and practice. It is
deliberately multi-disciplinary, welcoming theoretical and empirical
research from any pertinent field, including, but not restricted to,
philosophy, rhetoric, communication, linguistics, psychology, artificial
intelligence, education, law.

Informal Logic publishes articles that advance the dialectic in reasoning
and argumentation theory and practice.

Primary criteria for the acceptance of articles with a theoretical focus or
interest: (1) The article advances the dialectic or constitutes an
interesting comment on it: it presents a cogent argument, objection,
interpretation or position that is an advance in relation to the background
of issues and controversies on the topic; or it casts the issue addressed in
a new and worthwhile light. (2) The article makes explicit reference to the
pertinent literature on its topic, and it discharges the burden of proof
imposed by that scholarship.

Primary criteria for acceptance of articles devoted to the teaching of
informal logic, critical thinking or argumentation include: originality;
utility; timeliness; and evidence of the effectiveness of the methods,
materials, technologies, etc., proposed.

The standard criteria for scholarly publication?topical fit with the
subjects covered in the journal; adequacy of coverage to the issue
addressed; clarity, organization and literateness of the prose; conceptual
clarity and cogency of argumentation?apply ceteris paribus to the selection
of all articles, notes and reviews.

Co-Editor:

J. Anthony Blair
Co-Director, Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Ave.
Windsor, Ontario
CANADA N9B 3P4

Email: tblair@uwindsor.ca

Informal Logic is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the
Internet.

Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format.
 
Current Issue: Volume 28, Number 1, 1 March 2008

Date: 18 March 2008