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Announcement 
 
 
The Informal Logic editorial team has been undergoing changes, 
which are reflected in changes to our masthead with this issue.  
 
After 16 years as a Co-editor, and a number of years before 
that—serving in various roles, beginning as Assistant to the 
editors (essentially carrying out the duties of Managing editor) 
and eventually serving as Consulting editor—Professor Hans V. 
Hansen has decided to devote his considerable energy full-time 
to other projects. 
 
And after four years as Co-editor of the Informal Logic 
Newsletter (1979-1983) followed by 33 years as Co-editor of the 
journal, Informal Logic, Distinguished University Professor 
Ralph H. Johnson—who retired from the University of Windsor 
Philosophy Department in 2006—has decided to step down as 
Co-editor. With Tony Blair, Ralph was a co-founder of both the 
newsletter and the journal, and his departure marks a watershed 
in the life of Informal Logic. 
 
We at the journal, and the wider community of scholars in the 
various fields that touch on reasoning and argumentation in 
theory and practice, owe them gratitude for the wisdom and 
good judgment that these two scholars brought to the selection 
of, and improvements to, the manuscripts that passed through 
their hands on the way to publication over those many years.