Trudy Govier Short Curriculum Vitae
© Trudy Govier. Informal Logic, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2013), pp. 332-341.
Publications by Trudy Govier 1972-2013
1
Books
(1985, 1988, 1992, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2010, 2012 enhanced 7
th
ed.). A Practical Study of Argument. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
(1987). Problems in Argument Evaluation and Analysis. Dordrecht,
NL and Berlin: Foris/deGruyter.
(1988). (Ed.). Selected Issues in Logic and Communication. Bel-
mont, CA: Wadsworth.
(1989). God, the Devil, and the Perfect Pizza. Peterborough, ON:
Broadview Press.
(1997). Socrates’ Children. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press.
(1997). Social Trust and Human Communities. Montreal & King-
ston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
(1998). Dilemmas of Trust. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s
University Press.
(1999). The Philosophy of Argument. Newport News, VA: Vale
Press.
(2002). Forgiveness and Revenge. London: Routledge.
(2002). A Delicate Balance: What Philosophy Can Tell Us About
Terrorism. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
(2003). (and Carol A.L. Prager, Eds.). Dilemmas of Reconciliation.
Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
(2006). Taking Wrongs Seriously: Acknowledgement, Reconcilia-
tion, and the Politics of Sustainable Peace. Amherst, NY: Hu-
manity Books (Prometheus).
Articles
(1972). “Variations on Force and Vivacity in Hume.” Philosophi-
cal Quarterly 22(86): 44-52.
(1972). “Presuppositions, Conditions and Consequences.” Cana-
dian Journal of Philosophy 1(4): 443-456.
1
The editors thank Kent Peacock for his assistance.
Publications 1972-2013
© Trudy Govier. Informal Logic, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2013), pp. 332-341.
333
(1972). “Is Conscientiousness Always—or Ever—a Virtue?” Dia-
logue 11(2): 241-251.
(1973). “Tolerance and ‘Dogmatism’ in Morals.” Mind 82(325):
108-110.
(1974). “Woman’s Place.” Philosophy 49(189): 303-. (Reprinted
in Mary Mahowald (Ed.), The Philosophy of Woman. Indianapo-
lis: Hackett, 1
st
ed. 1978.)
(1975). “The Right to Eat and the Duty to Work.” Philosophy of
the Social Sciences 5(2): 125-143. (Reprinted in: T.A. Mappes
and J.S. Zembaty (Eds.), Social Ethics: Morality and Social Pol-
icy. McGraw-Hill, several editions; Stephen Satris (Ed.), Taking
Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Moral Issues. Dushkin,
1988; and Eldon Soifer (Ed.), Ethical Issues: Perspectives for
Canadians. Broadview, 1
st
ed. 1992.)
(1976). “Belief, Values and the Will.” Dialogue 15(4): 642–663.
(1978). “Is ‘There are External Objects’ an Empirical Proposi-
tion?” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 8(2): 305-321.
(1978-9). “Common Sense: Who Can Deny It?” Eidos.
(1979). “What Should We Do About Future People?” American
Philosophical Quarterly 16(2): 105-113. (Reprinted in Jan Nar-
veson (Ed.), Moral Issues. Oxford University Press, 1983; and
in Eldon Soifer (Ed.), Ethical Isssues: Perspectives for Canadi-
ans. Broadview, 2
nd
ed. 1998.)
(1979). “More on Deductive and Inductive Arguments.” Informal
Logic Newsletter 2(3): 7-8.
(1980), “Assessing Arguments: What Range of Standards?” In-
formal Logic Newsletter 3(1):
(1980). “Worries about Tu Quoque as a Fallacy.” Informal Logic
Newsletter 3(3): 2-4.
(1981). “Uncharitable Thoughts about Charity.” Informal Logic
Newsletter 4(1): 5-6.
(1981).“On Adler on Charity.” Informal Logic Newsletter 4(3): 10-
11.
(1981). “Getting Rid of the Big Bad Wolf.” Philosophy 56(216):
258-
Trudy Govier
© Trudy Govier. Informal Logic, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2013), pp. 332-341.
334
(1981). “Theory, Common Sense, and Certainty.” Metaphilosophy
12(1): 31-46.
(1981). “Rigour and Reality.” Queen’s Quarterly.
(1982). “What’s Wrong with Slippery Slope Arguments?” Canadi-
an Journal of Philosophy 12(2): 303-316.
(1982). “Who Says There are No Fallacies?” Informal Logic News-
letter. (Reprinted, in part, under the title “Reply to Massey,” in
Hans V. Hansen and Robert C. Pinto (Eds.), Fallacies: Classical
and Contemporary Readings. The Pennsylvania State University
Press, 1995).
(1983). “Ad Hominem: Revisiting the Textbooks.” Teaching Phi-
losophy 6(1): 13-24.
(1983). “Who Says There Are No Fallacies?” Informal Logic 5(1):
2-10.
(1983). “Nuclear Illusion and Individual Obligation.” Canadian
Journal of Philosophy 13(4): 471-492. (Reprinted in A. Falkow-
ski (Ed.), Moral Philosophy: Theories, Skills and Applications.
Prentice Hall, 1989.)
(1985). “Thoughts from Under the Nuclear Umbrella.” In Leo
Groarke and Michael Fox (Eds.), Nuclear War: Philosophical
Perspectives. (Reprinted in Wesley Cragg (Ed.), Contemporary
Moral Issues, McGraw-Ryerson, 2
nd
ed., 1987.)
(1985). “Logical Analogies.” Informal Logic 7(1): 27-33.
(1987). “Nuclear Hardware and Power: The War of Perceptions.”
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17(4): 749-766.
(1987). “Beyond Induction and Deduction.” In F.H. van Eemeren,
R. Grootendorst, J.A. Blair and C.A. Willard (Eds.), Proceed-
ings of the First International Conference on Argumentation.
Amsterdam: Foris.
(1988). “Can We Shelter Under a Nuclear Umbrella? Two Posi-
tions in the Canadian Nuclear Debate.” Project Ploughshares
Working Paper. Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo.
(1988). “Tu Quoque, Credibility, and Argument.” Newsletter for
the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (Fall).
(1988). “Five Ways of Teaching Reasoning.” In Alec Fisher (Ed.),
Proceedings of the University of East Anglia 1988 Conference
Publications 1972-2013
© Trudy Govier. Informal Logic, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2013), pp. 332-341.
335
on Teaching Logic and Critical Thinking. Norwich: University
of East Anglia.
(1988). “Are There Two Sides to Every Question?” In Trudy Go-
vier (Ed.), Selected Issues in Logic and Communications.
Wadsworth. (Used, in substantial portions, in Richard Fulker-
son, Teaching the Argument in Writing, Chapter 11. National
Council of Teachers of English (U.S.), 1996.)
(1989). “Critical Thinking as Argument Analysis?” Argumentation
3(2): 115-126.
(1989). “Global Citizenship.” Cogito 3(3): 208-216.
(1989). “Against the Mechanization of Reason.” The Computers
and Philosophy Newsletter. Center for Design of Educational
Computing, Carnegie Mellon University.
(1989). “Analogies and Missing Premises.” Informal Logic 11(3):
141-152.
(1991). “How We Trust Ourselves and What Happens When We
Don’t.” Cogito 5(3): 145-153.
(1991). “A Just War?” Canadian Forum, March. (Adapted and
included under the title, “Was the Gulf War a Just War?” in
Wesley Cragg (Ed.), Contemporary Moral Issues. McGraw-Hill
Ryerson, 3
rd
ed. 1992.)
(1992). “Trust, Distrust, and Feminist Theory.” Hypatia 7(1): 16–
33.
(1992). “Distrust as a Practical Problem.” Journal of Social Philos-
ophy 23(1): 52-63.
(1992). “What Is a Good Argument?” Metaphilosophy 23(4): 393-
409.
(1993). “When Logic Meets Politics: Testimony, Distrust, and
Rhetorical Disadvantage.” Informal Logic 15(2): 93-104.
(1993). “Trust and Testimony: Nine Arguments on Testimonial
Knowledge.”
(1993). “Self-Trust, Autonomy, and Self-Esteem.” Hypatia 8(1):
99-120.
(1993). “An Epistemology of Trust.” International Journal of
Moral and Social Studies 8(2): 155-174.
Trudy Govier
© Trudy Govier. Informal Logic, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2013), pp. 332-341.
336
(1993). “Needing Each Other for Knowledge: Reflections on
Trust and Testimony.” In Erik C.W. Krabbe, Renee Jose Dalitz,
and Pier A. Smit (Eds.), Empirical Knowledge and Public De-
bate: Essays in Honour of Else M. Barth, pp. 13-26. Poznan
Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities. Am-
sterdam: Rodopi.
(1994). “Is It a Jungle Out There? Trust, Distrust, and the Con-
struction of Social Reality.” Dialogue 33(2): 237-252.
(1995). “Non-Adversarial Conceptions of Argument.” In F.H. van
Eemeren, R. Grootendorst, J.A. Blair and C.A. Willard (Eds.),
Proceedings of the Third ISSA Conference on Argumentation,
Vol. I: Perspectives and Approaches, pp. 196-206. Amsterdam:
SicSat.
(1996). “Trust and Totalitarianism: Some Suggestive Examples.”
Journal of Social Philosophy 27(3): 149-163..
(1997). “Het Probleem van Ontbrekene Premissen” (The Problem
of Missing Premises). In Frans van Eemeren and Rob Grooten-
dorst (Eds.), Studies over Argumentatie, pp. 80-110. Amster-
dam: Leenden Stotbergen, (Translated into Dutch by Rianne
Groot.)
(1998). “Philosophers, Argument, and Politics Without Certainty.”
Inquiry 18(1): 95-103.
(1999). “Judicial Independence in the Context of Interdependence.”
In Setting Judicial Compensation: Multidisciplinary Perspec-
tives, pp. 95-104. Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada.
(1999). “Forgiveness and the Unforgivable.” American Philosophi-
cal Quarterly 36(1): 59-75. (Translated into Russian by Ruben
Apressyan. Appears in a yearbook of Russian philosophy,
2004.)
(1999). “Argument, Adversariality, and Controversy.” In F.H. van
Eemeren, R. Grootendorst, J.A. Blair, and C.A. Willard (Eds.),
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the In-
ternational Society for the Study of Argumentation, pp. 260-265.
Amsterdam: SicSat.
(2001). “Acknowledgement and Forced Confession.” The Acorn
11(1): 5-20.
Publications 1972-2013
© Trudy Govier. Informal Logic, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2013), pp. 332-341.
337
(2002). “Should A Priori Analogies Be Regarded as Deductive Ar-
guments?” Informal Logic 22(2): 155-157.
(2002). “The Promise and Pitfalls of Apologies.” (Co-authored
with Wilhelm Verwoerd.) Journal of Social Philosophy 33(1):
67-82.
(2002). “Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation.” (Co-
authored with Wilhelm Verwoerd.) Philosophy of the Social
Sciences 32(2): 178-205 .
(2002). “Taking Wrongs Seriously: A Qualified Defense of Public
Apology.” (Co-authored with Wilhelm Verwoerd.) Saskatche-
wan Law Review. Seminar Issue V.65: 139ff.
(2002). “Forgiveness: the Victim’s Prerogative.” (Co-authored
with Wilhelm Verwoerd.) South African Journal of Philosophy
21(2): 97-111.
(2004). “Email Addiction.” In Bela Szabados and Kenneth G.
Probert (Eds.), Writing Addiction: Toward a Poetics of Desire
and Its Others. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center.
(2004). “How Not to Polarize ‘Victims’ and ‘Perpetrators’.” (Co-
authored with Wilhelm Verwoerd.) Peace Review 16(3).
(2005). “Physical Violence in Political Conflicts: Grounds for a
Strong Presumption Against Violence.” In Timothy Shanahan
(Ed.), Philosophy 9/11: Thinking About the War on Terrorism,
pp. 107-126. Peru, IL: Open Court.
(2005). “Emotion, Relevance, and Consolation Arguments.” In
Kent A. Peacock and Andrew D. Irvine (Eds.), Mistakes of Rea-
son, Essays in Honour of John Woods, Ch. 20. Toronto: Univer-
sity of Toronto Press.
(2005). “Thinking without Justification? A Reply to David Miller.”
Learning for Democracy 1(3): 57-71.
(2005). “Philosophies, Life & Philosophies of Life.” Philosophy
Now 49: 23-25.
(2006). “My Interlocutor.” In Peter Houtlosser and Agnès van
Rees (Eds.), Considering Pragma-Dialectics, A Festschrift for
Frans H. van Eemeren, pp. 87-96. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erl-
baum Associates.
Trudy Govier
© Trudy Govier. Informal Logic, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2013), pp. 332-341.
338
(2006). “Vulnerability,” “Kindness,” “Murdering Trees?” and
“What is Government For?” In Andrew D. Irvine and John S.
Russell (Eds.), In the Agora: The Public Face of Canadian Phi-
losophy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
(2007). “Considering Questions about Questions.” In Hans V. Han-
sen and Robert C. Pinto (Eds.), Reason Reclaimed, Essays in
Honor of J. Anthony Blair and Ralph H. Johnson, pp. 171-186.
Newport News, VA: Vale Press.
(2007). “Quoting the Experts: The Case of Peace and War.” Hu-
manist Perspectives 161 (Spring).
(2007). “Getting Even? The Ethics and Politics of Revenge.” Hu-
manist Perspectives 162 (Autumn).
(2008). “War’s Aftermath: The Challenges of Reconciliation.” In
Larry May and Emily Crookston (Eds.), War: Essays in Politi-
cal Philosophy, pp. 229-248. New York: Cambridge University
Press.
(2008). “Visiting Uninhabited Islands.” Humanist Perspectives 163
(Winter).
(2008). “A Conception of Invitational Forgiveness.” (Co-authored
with Colin Hirano.) Journal of Social Philosophy 39(3): 429-
444.
(2008). “Pressing for Remorse?” Humanist Perspectives 164
(Spring).
(2008). “Violence, Nonviolence, and Definitions: A Dilemma for
Peace Studies.” Peace Research: The Journal for Peace and
Conflict Resolution 40(2): 61–83.
(2009). “A Dialectic of Acknowledgement.” In Joanna R. Quinn
(Ed.), Reconciliation(s): Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict
Societies, pp. 36-50. Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queen’s
University Press.
(2009). “Duets, Cartoons, and Tragedies: Struggles with the Falla-
cy of Composition.” In F. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen (Eds.),
Pondering Problems of Argumentation. Pp. 91-104. Amsterdam:
Springer.
(2009). “Logical Opposition and Social Opposition.” Cogency
1(1): 43-58.
Publications 1972-2013
© Trudy Govier. Informal Logic, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2013), pp. 332-341.
339
(2010). “Reflections on Fact, Values, and Argument.” In Reed, C.
and Tindale, C.W., Eds., Dialectics, Dialogue, and Argument:
An Examination of Douglas Walton’s Theories of Reasoning
and Argument, pp. 19-29. London: College Publications.
(2011). “Anecdotes and Arguments.” (Co-authored with Henrike
Jansen.) In E. Feteris, B. Garssen and F. Snoeck-Henkemans
(Eds.), Keeping in Touch with Pragma-Dialectics, pp. 75-88.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
(2011). “Conductive Arguments: Overview of a Symposium.” In
J. Anthony Blair and Ralph H. Johnson (Eds.), Conductive Ar-
gument, An Overlooked Type of Defeasible Reasoning, 262-276.
London: College Publications.
(2011). “Economies and Trust.” Elsevier Online Encyclopedia of
Applied Ethics.
(2011). “Hope and Its Opposites.” Journal of Social Philosophy
42(3): 239-253.
(2011). “More on Counter-Considerations.” In Frank Zenker (Ed.),
Argumentation: cognition and community. Proceedings of the
9
th
Ontario Society for Studies in Argumentation conference.
Windsor, ON: University of Windsor. CD-ROM.
(2012). “Public Forgiveness: A Modest Defence.” In Neelke
Doorn, Bas van Stokkom, and Paul Tongeren (Eds.), Public
Forgiveness in Post-Conflict Situations, pp. 25-36. Antwerp: In-
tersentia.
(2012). “Logic, Parables, and Argument.” (Co-authored with Low-
ell Ayers). Informal Logic, 32(2): 161-189.
(2012). “Respect and its Dilemmas.” In Janet Keeping, Daniel
Shapiro, and Gillian Steward (Eds.), Deal with it! Free Speech,
Ethics and the Law in Canada, pp. 46-56. Calgary, AB: Sheldon
Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership.
(2012). “Responsibility and Responsiveness.” (Co-authored with
Wilhelm Verwoerd.) Praxis 13(20): 9-28.
(2013 forthcoming). “Teaching and Learning, Stories and Argu-
ments.” In Tone Kvernebekk (Ed.), special issue of Scandinavi-
an Journal of Educational Research.
Trudy Govier
© Trudy Govier. Informal Logic, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2013), pp. 332-341.
340
Reviews and Critical Notices:
(1974). Critical notice of H.G. Frankfurt, Demons, Dreamers and
Madmen. Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
(1980). Critical Review of Carl Wellman, Challenge and Response.
Informal Logic Newsletter 2(2): 10-15.
(1980). Review of Lynda Lange and Lorenne Clark. The Sexism of
Social and Political Theory. Branching Out 7(2).
(1981). Review of J.L. Mackie, Hume’s Moral Theory. Canadian
Philosophical Reviews, 1(4): 162-166.
(1983). Review of Vincent Barry, Applying Ethics. Teaching Phi-
losophy 6(1): 54-56.
(1983) Review of John McPeck, Critical Thinking and Education.
Dialogue 22(1): 170-175.
(1984). Review of David O’Connor, The Metaphysics of G.E.
Moore. Philosophical Books 25(1): 27-29.
(1985). Review of Douglas Walton, The Arguer’s Position. Cana-
dian Philosophical Reviews 5(9): 405-406.
(1986). Review of Robert Dahl, Controlling Nuclear Weapons:
Democracy versus Guardianship. Canadian Philosophical Re-
views 67(6): 265-268.
(1987). Review of Barbara Deming, We are All Part of One Anoth-
er. Studies in Feminist Research.
(1991). Review of Duane Cady, From Warism to Pacifism and
Alex Michalos, Militarism and the Quality of Life. Canadian
Philosophical Reviews 11(2): 91-94.
(1995). Critical Review of Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair
(Eds.), New Essays in Informal Logic. Informal Logic 17(3):
407-419.
(1999). Review of Knud Logstrup, The Ethical Demand (trans.
from Danish by Fru Rosemarie Logstrup). The Journal of Value
Inquiry.
(2000). Review of Mark E. Warren (Ed.), Democracy and Trust.
Philosophy in Review 20(4): 303-304.
(2000). Critical Review of Ralph Johnson, Manifest Rationality.
Informal Logic 20(3): 281-290.
Publications 1972-2013
© Trudy Govier. Informal Logic, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2013), pp. 332-341.
341
(2003). Review of Jonathan Adler, Belief’s Own Ethics. Philosophy
in Review 23(3): 157-159.
(2004). Review of Peter Digeser, Political Forgiveness. Dialogue
43(2): 380–386.
(2005). Review of Geoffrey Scarre, After Evil: Responding to
Wrongdoing. Journal of Moral Philosophy 2(2): 248-251.
(2006). Review of Steven Lukes, Liberals and Cannibals: The Im-
plications of Diversity. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 36(4):
503-507.
(2010). Review of Russell Hardin, How Do You Know: The Eco-
nomics of Ordinary Knowledge. The Journal of Politics 72(3):
911-912.
(2011). Review of Andrea Veltman and Kathryn Norlock (Eds.),
Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of
Claudia Card. Hypatia 26(4): 881-883.