Leo Groarke

                 
(Photos taken at the third International Conference on Argumentation in Amsterdam, June 1994; and on an art trip to New York City in February 1996; the statue in Central Park is BALTO, for the sake of my son.)

DEGREES:

PhD, Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, 1982; MA, Philosophy, University of Calgary, 1977; BA (Hons.), Philosophy, University of Calgary, 1975.

BOOKS:

-Good Reasoning Matters! new, revised ed. Leo Groarke, Christopher Tindale, Linda Fisher (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997)

-Greek Scepticism: Anti-Realist Trends in Ancient Thought (Kingston, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, McGill- Queen's Series in the History of Ideas, 1990)

-Nuclear War: Philosophical Perspectives. Michael Allen Fox and Leo Groarke, eds. (New York: Peter Lang, 1985; 2nd printing 1987).

SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS

David Birdsell & Leo Groarke, Guest Editors, Argumentation and Advocacy, Special Issue on Visual Argumentation, 1997.

"Skepticism, Ancient" and "Logic, Informal" -- articles in the Stanford World Wide Web Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu).

"Prakticheckii razum i polemika vokrug pornographii" ("Practical Reason and Pornography") in R. Apresyan, ed. Morality and Rationality; Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 1995).

"There's (Virtually) Nothing New Under the Sun," a commentary on the social consequences of virtual reality, forthcoming in Technology Studies.

Leo Groarke and Sally Scholz, "Seven Principles for Better Practical Ethics," forthcoming in Teaching Philosophy.

"Logic, Art and Argument," forthcoming in Informal Logic.

E-mail address:    lgroarke@wlu.ca