Douglas N. Walton

For other people with similar names, see Douglas Walton (disambiguation).
Douglas N. Walton
Born
Douglas Neil Walton

(1942-06-02)2 June 1942
Hamilton, Ontario
Died3 January 2020(2020-01-03) (aged 77)
Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Meaning of "Can" (1971)
Doctoral advisorJohn Woods
Academic work
Discipline
Institutions
Main interestsArgumentation theory
Notable ideasWoods–Walton approach

Douglas Neil Walton (2 June 1942 – 3 January 2020) was a Canadian academic and author, known for his books and papers on argumentation, logical fallacies and informal logic.[2] He was a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric (CRRAR) at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and before that (2008–2014), he held the Assumption Chair of Argumentation Studies at the University of Windsor. Walton's work has been used to better prepare legal arguments and to help develop artificial intelligence.

A special issue of the journal Informal Logic surveyed Walton's contributions to informal logic and argumentation theory up to 2006.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ a b Walton, Doug. "Curriculum Vitae: Douglas Neil Walton" (PDF). Doug Walton. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Douglas "Doug" Neil Walton Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information". Archived from the original on 12 June 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  3. ^ Informal Logic, 27(1), 2007.
  4. ^ A festschrift honoring his contributions, Dialectics, Dialogue and Argumentation: An Examination of Douglas Walton's Theories of Reasoning and Argument, ed. C. Reed and C. W. Tindale, London: College Publications, 2010, shows how his theories are increasingly finding applications in computer science.
  5. ^ Reed, Christopher; Christopher W. Tindale (2010). Dialectics, Dialogue and Argumentation: An Examination of Douglas Walton's Theories of Reasoning and Argument. London: College Publications.