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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 ...
What is Software?
(Penn State University Press, 1988)
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 ...