Talk:Stephen Toulmin
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Tasks: Find a good template, collect his full list of writings, write a short bio, get a picture, list some meaty quotations, provide contact information. Iterate and extend this list. (this has been moved from main article)
Toulmin's 1958 model of argument has also been influential in computer science, for the design of computational argumentation systems (eg, expert computer systems able to explain their reasoning). I will add something on this in due course. Peter McBurney, 2006-06-15.
[edit] Whereabout of evolution of his evolutionary view
Stephen Toulmin's evolutionary view appears to emerge and evolve along the following immediate mediation of works in particular:
- Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963),
- Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (1972),
- Stephen Toulmin, Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts (1972),
- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976).
Thus it would be noteworthy that these works are logically relevant or similar to each other, even if they are not causally so. This is the logical necessity of information retrieval by subject content or aboutness, in contrast to the causal necessity by citation context. The objection to Thomas Kuhn's revolutionary view do little harm to the logical relevance or similarity. No difference without similarity! To put it another way, both should go hand in hand! --ishiakkum 03:22, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
The page under discussion seems to state that Plato developed a system of formal logic. I don't think that is true! -- Gene Callahan
