CALL FOR PAPERS 

Special Issue of Informal Logic on the 
work of DOUGLAS WALTON 

GUEST EDITOR: DAVID GODDEN 

Over the last 25 years, Douglas Walton has been a prolific and influential 
contributor to informal logic scholarship in a great many areas. Besides 
numerous articles, he has published books on relevance, informal fallacies, 
dialogue games, fallacy theory, informal logic, argument structure, presumptive 
argument schemes, practical reasoning, legal argumentation, ethical 
argumentation, plausible argument, abductive argument, and argument and 
artificial intelligence, as well as books on particular fallacies or species of 
argument, including ad hominem, begging the question, slippery slope, 
emotion, argument from ignorance, ambiguity, appeal to authority, to pity, and 
to popular opinion, and threats. (This list is not complete.) 

To recognize the contributions of Professor Walton to informal logic and 
argumentation theory, Informal Logic invites papers that discuss, critique, 
develop, engage with or apply some aspect of his work. 

Among the topics that contributors might address are: 

• dialectical and dialogic approaches to argument 

• recent developments in dialogue-based approaches to argument 

• dialogue and legal argumentation 

• argumentation schemes 

• argumentation and computing 

• abductive reasoning and argument 

• dialogue-based approaches to fallacy theory 

Paper submission cut-off deadline: October I, 2006; early submissions are 
welcomed. Length: maximum of7,000 words. 

Papers are to prepared for blind review and submitted electronically, with 
"Walton Issue" in the subject line, to: 

goddendm@uwindsor.ca and infolog@uwindsor.ca 

Please take note of and FOLLOW the instructions for authors found in 
Informal Logic and on the Informal Logic website: 

http://web2.uwindsor.ca/faculty/arts/phiiosophy/ILIsubmissions.htm