Philosophy

Fall 2019

September 18: Adversarial Argument (1)

• Aikin, Scott. 2011. A defense of war and sports metaphors in argument. Philosophy and Rhetoric 44(3): 250-272.
  (This article is only available in .pdf format.)
• Cohen, Daniel. 1995. Argument is War...and War is Hell: Philosophy, Education, and Metaphors for Argumentation. Informal Logic 17(2): 177-188. 
  (There’s a typo in the title on the landing page, but not on the .pdf document.  This article is only available in .pdf format.)

September 25: Adversarial Argument (2)

• Hundleby, C. (2013). Aggression, politeness, and abstract adversaries. Informal Logic 33(2): 238–262. 
  (This article is only available in .pdf format.)
• Rooney, Phyllis. 2010. Philosophy, adversarial argumentation, and embattled reason. Informal Logic 30(3): 203-234.
  (This article is only available in .pdf format.)

October 2: Adversarial Argument (3) 

• Henning, Tempest. 2018. Bringing Wreck. Symposion 5(2): 197-211.
  (This article is only available in .pdf format. Link to the journal issue.)
• Hample, Dale and Adam Richards. 2019. Personalizing conflict in different interpersonal relationship types. Western Journal of Communication 83(2): 190-209.

October 9: Adversarial Argument (4)

• Bailin, Sharon and Mark Battersby. 2017. DAMed if you do, DAMed if you don’t: Cohen’s ‘Missed Opportunities.’  In Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias: Proceedings of the 11^thInternational Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, edited by Patrick Bondy and Laura Benacquista, OSSA Conference Archive. 
  (Available only in .pdf.)
• Wein, Sheldon. 2017. Commentary on DAMMIT-- Dominant Adversarial Model: Minded Instead of Terminated. In Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias: Proceedings of the 11^thInternational Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, edited by Patrick Bondy and Laura Benacquista, OSSA Conference Archive. (Available in .pdf only.)
• Stevens, Katharina and Daniel Cohen. 2019. The attraction of the ideal has no traction on the real: on adversariality and roles in argument. Argumentation and Advocacy 55(1): 1-23.

October 16: Emotion and Argumentation in Informal Logic

• Gilbert, Michael. 2004. Emotion, argumentation and informal logic. Informal Logic 24(3): 245-264. (Available in .pdf only.)
• Hample, Dale, Marceline Thompson-Hayes, Kelly Wallenfelsz, Paul Wallenfelsz and Christiana Knapp. 2005. Face-to-face arguing is an emotional experience: Triangulating methodologies and early findings. Argumentation and Advocacy 42: 74-93. (Available in.pdf only.)
• Gilbert, Michael. 1994. Feminism, Argumentation, and Coalescence. Informal Logic 16(2): 95-113. (Available in .pdf only.)

October 30: Buddhist approaches to anger

• Ariyabuddhiphongs, Vanchai. 2014. Anger concepts and anger reduction method in Theravada Buddhism. Spirituality in Clinical Practice 1(1): 56–66.
• McRae, Emily. 2015. Metabolizing anger: A tantric Buddhist solution to the problem of moral anger. Philosophy East and West 65(2): 466-484.
• Vernezze, Peter. 2008. Moderation or the middle way: Two approaches to anger. Philosophy East and West 58(1): 2-16.

November 6: Anger, Loving Perception, and Knowledge

• Bailey, Alison. 2018. On anger, silence, and epistemic injustice. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 84: 93-115.
• Lugones, María, 1987, “Playfulness, “world”-travelling, and loving perception,” Hypatia 2(2): 3-19. (.pdf only)
• McWeeny, Jen. 2010. Liberating anger, embodying knowledge: A comparative study of María Lugones and Zen Master Hakuin. Hypatia 25(2): 295-315.

November 13: Rogerian Argumentation and "Counterproductive but Apt" Anger 

• Pâquet, Lili. 2019. The #rhetoric of Waleed Aly’s “Send Forgiveness Viral”: Is Rogerian argumentation an appropriate response to racism? Argumentation and Advocacy 55(2): 152-168.
• Srinivasan, Amia. 2018. The aptness of anger. The Journal of Political Philosophy 26(2): 123-144.

November 20: Rhetoric and Anger

• Olson, Lester. 2011. Anger among allies: Audre Lorde’s 1981 keynote admonishing the National Women’s Studies Association. Quarterly Journal of Speech 97(3): 283-308. 
• Zagacki, Kenneth and Patrick Boleyn-Fitzgerald 2006. Rhetoric and anger. Philosophy and Rhetoric 39(4): 290-309.

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