From the Editors


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This is a special issue of Informal Logic marking the creation in 2006-2007 of a 
new research centre at the University of Windsor, the Centre for Research in 
Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR). The creation of CRRAR 
provides a corporate identity to the relatively large group of researchers on these 
topics currently connected with the University of Windsor. CRRAR was formed 
to coordinate and expand the research at Windsor, to encourage graduate education 
in these areas, and to serve as a base for collaborative research with colleagues in 
other institutions and/or in other, related fields. 

Current members of CRRAR are: 

J. Anthony Blair (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy) 
Marcello Guarini (Associate Professor of Philosophy) 
Hans V. Hansen (Associate Professor of Philosophy) 
Dale Jacobs (Associate Professor of English) 
Ralph H. Johnson (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy) 
Stephen Pender (Associate Professor of English) 
Robert C. Pinto (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy) 
Christopher W. Tindale (Professor of Philosophy) 

CRRAR looks forward to contacts with colleagues in other departments and 
centres worldwide. We hope to be able to invite scholars working on cognate or 
joint projects to visit Windsor and spend time here collaborating with our members. 
Inquiries are welcome. 

CRRAR invites colleagues in other departments to encourage their best students 
to enrol in one of the Windsor MA programs (in Philosophy or in English) that 
provide exposure to leading edge research and an excellent background for Ph.D. 
studies. 

The articles in this issue are all by members of CRRAR. We would note that, as 
is normally the case when on relatively rare occasions we publish an article by an 
editor of this journal, these articles were refereed blind. 

From the Editors