Charles Arthur Willard

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Charles Arthur Willard (1945---) is an American argumentation and rhetorical theorist. He is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. His published works include Argumentation and the Social Grounds of Knowledge, University of Alabama Press, 1982. A Theory of Argumentation, University of Alabama Press, 1988, and Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. He has published monographs in and served on editorial boards for Communication Monographs, Informal Logic, Journal of the American Forensics Association, Argumentation, Social Epistemology and the QuarterlyJournal of Speech. He is a co-director of the International Association for the Study of Argumentation based at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He has received distinguished scholarship awards from the National Communication Association, the American Forensics Association, and the Universities of Illinois and Louisville.