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A Case Study in Ad Hominem Arguments: Fichte's Science of Knowledge
(Penn State University Press, 1990)
Fichte's narrative persona in the Science of Knowledge is obnoxious. I try to disentangle regrettable signs of immaturity and paranoia from justifiable ad hominem arguments. Many of Fichte's ad hominem attacks on metaphysical ...
A Year of Teaching with Dialog
(American Philosophical Association, 1994)
Review of Jeff Mason, Philosophical Rhetoric
(Penn State University Press, 1990)
Infinite Reflections
(St. John's College, 1998)
Question-Begging Under a Non-Foundational Model of Argument
(Springer Verlag, 1994)
I find (as others have found) that question-begging is formally valid but rationally unpersuasive. More precisely, itought to be unpersuasive, although it can often persuade. Despite its formal validity, question-begging ...