Doug Walton
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Douglas Neil Walton is a Canadian academic and author, well known for his many widely published books and papers on argumentation, logical fallacies and informal logic. He is presently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. Walton teaches logic, published 39 books, and he has written many papers. His most recent book is entitled as "Witness Testimony Evidence: Argumentation, Artificial Intelligence and Law."
He gained his BA at University of Waterloo, Ontario (1964) and his PhD at University of Toronto (1972).
Walton's work has been used to better prepare legal arguments and to help develop artificial intelligence. His books have been translated worldwide and he attracts students from many countries to study with him.
Most of Walton's books are about logical fallacies. The list of titles, from most recent to oldest are: Witness Testimony Evidence: Argumentation, Artificial Intelligence and Law; Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation; Media Argumentation: Dialectic, Persuasion and Rhetoric; Character Evidence: An Abductive Theory; Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation; Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law; Abductive Reasoning; Relevance in Argumentation; Ethical Argumentation; Legal Argumentation and Evidence; Scare Tactics: Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats; Appeal to Popular Opinion; One-Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias; The New Dialectic; Appeal to Expert Opinion: Arguments from Authority; Appeal to Pity: Argumentum ad Misericordiam; Historical Foundations of Informal Logic; Argument Structure: A Pragmatic Theory; Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning; Arguments from Ignorance; Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity; Commitment in Dialogue: Basic Concepts of Interpersonal Reasoning; A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy; The Place of Emotion in Argument; Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation; Slippery Slope Arguments; Begging the Question: Circular Reasoning as a Tactic of Argumentation; Practical Reasoning: Goal-Driven, Knowledge-Based, Action-Guiding Argumentation; Informal Logic: A Handbook for Critical Argumentation; Question-Reply Argumentation; Informal Fallacies; Courage: A Philosophical Investigation; Arguer's Position: A Pragmatic Study of Ad Hominem Attack; Criticism, Refutation, and Fallacy; Physician-Patient Decision-Making; Logical Dialogue-Games and Fallacies; Ethics of Withdrawal of Life Support Systems; Topical Relevance in Argumentation, and Brain Death: Ethical Considerations.
