Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
David Godden
PHILOSOPHY MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN 48824-1032
http://www.davidgodden.ca
dgodden@msu.edu
Academic Appointments
Michigan State University, Philosophy Department (East Lansing, MI, USA)
201920192015-19
Undergraduate Program Director
Associate Professor with Tenure
Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University, Philosophy Department (Norfolk, VA, USA)
2010-15
2008-10
Assistant Professor
Lecturer
University of Winnipeg, Philosophy Department (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)
2007-08
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Windsor, Philosophy Department (Windsor, ON, Canada)
2005-06
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
(Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada)
University of Winnipeg, Philosophy Department (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)
2004
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Areas of Specialization
Areas of Specialization:
Epistemology Theory of Reasoning and Argument
Logic (formal and informal) History and Philosophy of Logic
Areas of Competence:
History of Modern and Analytic Philosophy
Philosophy of Language Metaphysics Philosophy of Mind
Education
Ph.D. in Philosophy (2004)
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Supervisor: Nicholas Griffin
Dissertation: Psychologism, Semantics and the Subject Matter of Logic.
M.A. in Philosophy (1997)
York University, North York, ON, Canada
Supervisor: Stuart Shanker
Hons. B.A. in Philosophy (1995)
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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Publications
Journal Articles
26. Godden, D. and Casey, J. (2020 forthcoming). No place for compromise: Resisting the
shift to negotiation. Argumentation: An International Journal on Reasoning, vol, pp-pp.
doi: 10.1007/s10503-020-09517-z
25. Godden, D. (2019). On the rational resolvability of deep disagreement through metaargumentation: A resource audit. Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, 38,
725-750. doi: 10.1007/s11245-019-09682-1
24. Godden, D. (2019). Corroboration: Sensitivity, safety, and explanation. Acta Analytica,
34(1):15-38. doi: 10.1007/s12136-018-0351-x
23. Godden, D. and Zenker, F. (2018). A probabilistic analysis of argument cogency.
Synthese, 195, 1715-1740. doi: 10.1007/s11229-016-1299-2
22. Godden, D. (2017). Presumption as a modal qualifier: Presumption, inference, and
managing epistemic risk. Argumentation: An International Journal on Reasoning, 31,
485-511. doi: 10.1007/s10503-017-9422-1
21. Godden, D. (2017). On the norms of visual argument: A case for normative nonrevisionism. Argumentation: An International Journal on Reasoning, 31, 395–431.
doi: 10.1007/s10503-016-9411-9
20. Godden, D. (2016). On the priority of agent-based argumentative norms. Topoi: An
International Review of Philosophy, 35, 345-357. doi: 10.1007/s11245-014-9296-x
19. Godden, D. (2015). Argumentation, rationality, and psychology of reasoning. Informal
Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice, 35, 135-166.
18. Godden, D. and Zenker, F. (2015). Denying antecedents and affirming consequents:
The state of the art. Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and
Practice, 35, 88-134.
17. Godden, D. (2014). Modeling corroborative evidence: Inference to the best explanation
as counter-rebuttal. Argumentation: An International Journal on Reasoning, 28, 187-220.
16. Godden, D. (2014). Teaching rational entitlement and responsibility: A Socratic
exercise. Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice, Teaching
Supplement, 34, 124-151.
this paper is translated into Spanish and appears as:
Gascón, J. (trans). and Godden, D. (2017). Archivo de Textos: D. Godden “Enseñar la
legitimación racional y la responsabilidad: Un ejercicio socrátic” (Teaching Rational
Entitlement and Responsibility: A Socratic Exercise). Revista Iberoamericana de
Argumentación, 14, 75-105.
15. Godden, D. (2012). Rethinking the debriefing paradigm: The rationality of belief
perseverance. Logos & Episteme, 3, 51-74.
14. Godden, D. (2010). The importance of belief in argumentation: Belief, commitment and
the effective resolution of a difference of opinion. Synthese, 172, 397-414.
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13. Godden, D. and Brenner, W. (2010). Wittgenstein and the logic of deep disagreement.
Cogency: Journal of Reasoning and Argumentation, 2, 41-80.
12. Godden, D. and Griffin, N. (2009). Psychologism and the development of Russell’s
account of propositions. History and Philosophy of Logic, 30, 171-186.
11. Godden, D. (2008). On common knowledge and ad populum: Acceptance as grounds
for acceptability. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 41, 101-129.
10. Godden, D. and Walton, D. (2008). Defeasibility in judicial opinion: Logical or
procedural? Informal Logic: Reasoning & Argumentation in Theory &Practice, 28, 5-15.
9.
Godden, D. and Walton, D. (2007). A theory of presumption for everyday
argumentation. Pragmatics & Cognition, 15, 313-346.
8.
Godden, D. and Walton, D. (2007). Advances in the theory of argumentation schemes
and critical questions. Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and
Practice, 27, 267-292.
7.
Godden, D. (2006). Departmental boundaries within the corporate body of theory:
Quine on the holistic foundations of logic. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review,
45, 505-528.
6.
Godden, D. and Walton, D. (2006). Argument from expert opinion as legal evidence:
Critical questions and admissibility criteria of expert testimony in the American
legal system. Ratio Juris, 19, 261-286.
5.
Godden, D. (2005). Psychologism in the logic of John Stuart Mill: Mill on the subject
matter and foundations of ratiocinative logic. History and Philosophy of Logic, 26, 115143.
4.
Godden, D. (2005). Deductivism as an interpretative strategy: A reply to Groarke’s
defense of reconstructive deductivism. Argumentation and Advocacy: Journal of the
American Forensic Association, 41, 168-183.
3.
Walton, D. and Godden, D. (2005). Persuasion dialogue in online dispute resolution.
Artificial Intelligence and Law, 13, 273-295.
2.
Godden, D. and Walton, D. (2004). Denying the antecedent as a legitimate
argumentative strategy: A dialectical model. Informal Logic: Reasoning and
Argumentation in Theory and Practice, 24, 219-243.
1.
Godden, D. (2003). Arguing at cross-purposes: Discharging the dialectical obligations
of the coalescent model of argumentation. Argumentation: An International Journal on
Reasoning, 17, 219-243.
Contributions to Edited Collections
11. Godden, D. (2021). Epistemic autonomy, epistemic paternalism, and blindspots of
reason. In G. Axtell and A. Bernal (Eds.), Epistemic paternalism: Conceptions,
justifications, and implications (pp. 181-197) London: Rowman & Littlefield.
10. Godden, D. (2019). Analyzing presumption as a modal qualifier. In H.V. Hansen, F.
Kauffeld, J. Freeman, and L. Bermejo-Luque (Eds.), Presumptions and burdens of proof:
An anthology (pp. 206-219). Tuscaloosa, AB: University of Alabama Press.
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Godden, D. (2017). Mill on logic. In C. Macleod and D.E. Miller (Eds.), A Companion to
Mill (pp. 175-191). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
8.
Godden, D. (2016). Pushing the bounds of rationality: Argumentation and extended
cognition. In F. Paglieri, L. Bonelli, and S. Felletti (Eds.), The psychology of argument:
Cognitive approaches to argumentation and persuasion (pp. 67-83). Studies in Logic and
Argumentation. London: College Publications.
7.
Godden, D. (2014). Mill’s System of Logic. In W.J. Mander (Ed.), Oxford handbook of
British philosophy in the nineteenth century (pp. 44-70). Oxford: Oxford UP.
6.
Godden, D. (2012). The role of mental states in argumentation: Two problems for
rationality from the psychology of belief. In F. Paglieri, L. Tummolini, R. Falcone,
and M. Miceli (Eds.), The goals of cognition: Essays in honor of Cristiano Castelfranchi
(pp. 123-143). London: College Publications.
5.
Laar, J.A. van and Godden, D. (2011). The Pragma-Dialectical approach to circularity
in argumentation. In E. Feteris, B. Garssen and F. Snoeck-Henkemans (Eds.),
Keeping in touch with pragma-dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren (pp. 265-280).
Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.
4.
Godden, D. (2010). Corroborative evidence. In C. Reed and C.W. Tindale (Eds.),
Dialectics, dialogue and argumentation: An examination of Douglas Walton's theories of
reasoning and argument (pp. 201-212). London: College Publications.
3.
Walton, D. and Godden, D. (2008). Rescher on dialogue systems, argumentation and
burden of proof. In R. Almeder (Ed.), Rescher studies: A collection of essays on the
philosophical work of Nicholas Rescher, Reading Rescher (vol.2), (pp. 401-427). Frankfurt:
Verlag Ontos.
2.
Walton, D. and Godden, D. (2007). Informal logic and the dialectical approach to
argument. In H.V. Hansen and R.C. Pinto (Eds.), Reason reclaimed (pp. 3-17).
Newport News, VA: Vale Press.
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Walton, D. and Godden, D. (2006). The impact of argumentation on artificial
intelligence. In M.A. van Rees and P. Houtlosser (Eds.), Considering pragma-dialectics
(pp. 287-299). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Edited Collections
7.
Godden, D., and Campolo C. (Eds.). (2019). Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy,
Special Issue: The Practice(s) of Giving Reasons, 38(4), 627-762.
Including: Godden, D., and Campolo, C. (2019). “Introduction: The practice(s) of
giving reasons” (pp. 627-630).
6.
Garssen, B., Godden, D., Mitchell, G. and Wagemans, J. (Eds.). (2019). Proceedings of the
Ninth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation.
Amsterdam: Sic Sat. http://cf.hum.uva.nl/issa/ISSA_2018_proceedings.pdf
5.
Godden, D., Palczewski, C.H., and Groarke, L. (Eds.). (2016). Argumentation and
Advocacy: Journal of the American Forensic Association, Special Issue: Twenty Years of
Visual Argument, 52(4), 217-299.
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Including: Groarke, L., Palczewski, C.H., and Godden, D. (2016). “Editors’
introduction to the special issue: Navigating the visual turn in argument” (pp. 217235).
4.
Eemeren, F.H. van, Garssen, B., Godden, D., and Mitchell, G. (Eds.). (2015). Proceedings
of the Eighth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation.
Amsterdam: Sic Sat. http://rozenbergquarterly.com/issa-proceedings-2014-tableof-contents/
3.
Eemeren, F.H. van, Garssen, B., Godden, D., and Mitchell, G. (Eds.). (2011). Proceedings
of the Seventh Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation.
Amsterdam: Sic Sat. http://rozenbergquarterly.com/issa-proceedings-2010-tableof-contents/
2.
Godden, D. (Ed.). (2007). Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and
Practice, Special Issue on Douglas Walton, 27(1).
Including: “Editor’s Introduction” (pp. 1-4), and “A bibliography of Douglas
Walton’s published works, 1971-2007” (pp. 135-147).
1.
Hansen, H.V., Tindale, C.W., Blair, J.A., Johnson, R.H. and Godden, D. (Eds.). (2007).
Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground: Proceedings of the Ontario Society for the
Study of Argumentation (OSSA) Conference, June 3-6. Windsor, ON: OSSA.
Book Reviews & Published Commentaries
6.
Godden, D. (2019). Response: On Bondy’s conception of reasons. Symposium on P.
Bondy, Epistemic Rationality and Epistemic Normativity. Syndicate Philosophy, 4.9.19.
https://syndicate.network/symposia/philosophy/epistemic-rationality-andepistemic-normativity/
5.
Godden, D. (2015). Review of: D. Walton, Burden of proof, presumption and
argumentation. Cogency: Journal of Reasoning and Argumentation, 7, 91-107.
4.
Godden, D. (2015). Images as arguments: Progress and problems, a brief commentary.
Argumentation: An International Journal on Reasoning, 29, 235-238.
3.
Godden, D. (2009). Review of: M. Vorobej, A theory of argument. History and Philosophy
of Logic, 30, 101-102.
2.
Godden, D. (2005). Review of: F.H. van Eemeren & R. Grootendorst, A systematic theory
of argumentation: The pragma-dialectical approach. Philosophy in Review, 25, 72-75.
1.
Godden, D. (2000). Review of: C.W. Tindale, Acts of arguing: A rhetorical model of
argument. Philosophy in Review, 20, 384-386.
Works In Translation
1.
Gascón, J. (trans). and Godden, D. (2017). Archivo de Textos: D. Godden “Enseñar la
legitimación racional y la responsabilidad: Un ejercicio socrátic” (Teaching Rational
Entitlement and Responsibility: A Socratic Exercise). Revista Iberoamericana de
Argumentación, 14, 75-105.
translation into Spanish by J. Gascón of:
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Godden, D. (2014). Teaching rational entitlement and responsibility: A Socratic
exercise. Informal Logic, 34, 124-151.
Articles Graduate Student Journal
3.
Godden, D. (1999). The problems of individuality and incommensurability in Raz’s The
morality of freedom. De Philosophia, 15, 33-50.
2.
Godden, D. (1998). Language and acquisition in Chomskian theory.Discourse, 4, 52-64.
1.
Godden, D. (1996). Nehamas’ Life as literature: A case for the defence. Kinesis, 23, 29-46
Conferences: Presentations & Contributions to Proceedings
42. Godden, D. (2020). It’s always darkest before the dawn: The Lark of Arete and
praiseworthiness in public discourse. Association for Philosophy of Education
session at the American Philosophical Association (APA), Central Division, New
York, USA, February 28, 2020.
41. Godden, D. (2019). Trust, trustworthiness, and distrust in contexts of dissent. Reason
to dissent: 3rd European Conference on Argumentation (ECA), University of
Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, June 25 2019.
40. Zenker, F., Debowska-Kozlowska, K., Godden, D., Selinger, M., and Wells, S. (2019).
Five approaches to argument strength: probabilistic, dialectical, structural,
empirical, and computational. In C. Dutilh Novaes & B. Verheij (Eds.), Reason to
Dissent: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Argumentation (ECA), vol. N
(pp. nn-nn). University of Groningen, The Netherlands, June 24 – 27 2019. Studies
in Logic and Argumentation. London: College Publications.
39. Godden, D. (2019). Dialectical approaches to modeling argument strength (part of an
panel on argument strength). Reason to dissent: 3rd European Conference on
Argumentation (ECA), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, June
25 2019.
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Godden, D. (2019). Plausible counterexamples: An informal test of connection
adequacy. Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) session
at the American Philosophical Association (APA), Eastern Division, New York,
USA, January 8, 2019.
37. Dove, I. and Godden, D. (2019). On maps as visual grounds for inference: against
isomorphism. In B. Garssen, D. Godden, G. Mitchell, and J. Wagemans (Eds.).
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the International Society for the Study of
Argumentation (pp. 257-264). Amsterdam: Sic Sat.
http://cf.hum.uva.nl/issa/ISSA_2018_proceedings.pdf
36. Godden, D. (2018). Bayesian accounts of testimony: Some further applications.
International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA), 9th International
Conference on Argumentation, at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
July 3-6, 2018.
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35. Godden, D. (2017). On the uses of testimony in argumentative contexts.
Argumentation and Inference: 2nd European Conference on Argumentation
(ECA), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, June 20-23 2017.
34. Godden, D. (2016). Revisiting Frege’s epistemology: Frege on the nature of proof and
justification. Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP),
Denver, Colorado, USA, June 16-18, 2016.
33. Godden, D. (2016). Pushing the bounds of rationality: Argumentation and extended
cognition. Objectivity and bias: 11th International Conference of the Ontario
Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), University of Windsor, Windsor,
Canada, May 18-21, 2016.
32. Godden, D. (2016). Towards an informal logic of presumptions. Presumptions,
Presumptive Inferences, and Burden of Proof, at the University of Granada,
Granada, Spain, April 26-28, 2016.
31. Godden, D. (2016). Visual argument: Content, commensurability, and cogency. In D.
Mohammed & M. Lewinski (Eds.), Argumentation and Reasoned Action: Proceedings of
the First European Conference on Argumentation (ECA), Lisbon, 9-12 June 2015, vol. 2
(pp. 69-82). Studies in Logic and Argumentation. London: College Publications.
30. Godden, D. (2015). Thinking outside the box: Sources of normativity in normative
pragmatics. Argumentation and Reasoned Action, 1st European Conference on
Argumentation (ECA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, June 9-12,
2015.
29. Godden, D. (2014). Against the restorative model of counter rebuttal. International
Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA), 8th International Conference on
Argumentation, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 1-4, 2014.
28. Godden, D. and Zenker, F. (2014). Heuristics, total evidence, and then some: Why DA
and AC arguments are still fallacies. Fifteenth Biennial Wake Forest Argumentation
Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, April 11-13, 2014.
27. Godden, D. (2013). Argumentation, rationality and the psychology of reasoning. 9th
eColloq on argumentation (live internet colloquium), December 12, 2013.
26. Godden, D. (2013). On the norms of visual argument. In D. Mohammed and M.
Lewinski (Eds.), Virtues of argumentation: Proceedings of the 10th International
Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 22-26 May
2013 (pp. 1-13). Windsor, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA10/papersandcommentaries/54/
25. Godden, D. (2013). Corroboration, explanation, and sensitivity. Southern Society for
Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP) 105th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, Feb. 28 –
Mar. 2, 2013.
24. Godden, D. (2012). Corroboration, explanation, and sensitivity. Canadian Society for
Epistemology Annual Conference, Intuition and Experimental Epistemology,
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, November 23-24, 2012.
23. Godden, D., Groarke, L. and Hansen, H. (2011). Informal logic and argumentation: An
Alta conversation. In R. Roland (Ed.), Reasoned argument and social change: Selected
papers from the 17th biennial conference on argumentation (pp. 48-62). Washington, DC:
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National Communication Association. Alta, Utah, July 28-31, 2011.
22. Godden, D. (2011). Modeling corroborative evidence. 17th Biennial NCA/AFA
Summer Conference on Argumentation, Alta, Utah, July 28-31, 2011.
21. Godden, D. (2011). Informal logic and the product, process, and procedural
perspectives on argument. 17th Biennial NCA/AFA Summer Conference on
Argumentation, Alta, Utah, July 28-31, 2011. (invited panelist with L. Groarke and
H. Hansen.)
20. Godden, D. (2011). Frege on the nature of proof and justification: Revisiting Frege’s
epistemology. Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting at the Congress
of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Fredericton, NB, May 30 – June 2, 2011.
19. Godden, D. (2011). Presumptions in argument: Epistemic versus social approaches. In
F. Zenker et al. (Eds.) Argumentation: Cognition & community: Proceedings of the 9th
international conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA),
May 18-21, 2011 (pp. 1-13). Windsor, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA9/papersandcommentaries/57/
18. Godden, D. (2010). Revisiting Frege’s epistemology: Frege on the nature of proof and
justification. Canadian Society for Epistemology, Ottawa, Canada, Nov. 12, 2010.
17. Brenner, W. and Godden, D. (2010). Wittgenstein and the logic of deep disagreement.
Third Regional Wittgenstein Workshop, Floyd, VA, Sept. 24-26, 2010.
16. Godden, D. (2010). Corroborative evidence. Wake Forest University 13th Biennial
Conference on Argumentation, Winston-Salem, NC, March 19-21, 2010.
15. Godden, D. (2009). The epistemic utility of Toulmin’s argument fields. In J. Ritola et.
al. (Eds.), Argument Cultures: Proceedings of the 8th Ontario Society for the Study of
Argumentation (OSSA) Conference, June 3-6, 2009 (pp. 1-8). Windsor, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA8/papersandcommentaries/53/
14. Godden, D. (2008). Revisiting Frege’s epistemology: Frege on the nature of proof and
justification. American Philosophical Association (Bertrand Russell Society/History
of Early Analytic Philosophy), Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 28, 2008.
13. Godden, D. (2008). Rethinking the debriefing paradigm: Bounded rationality and
normative explanations of belief perseverance. Canadian Philosophical Association,
Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Vancouver, BC, June 2-5, 2008.
12. Godden, D. (2007). On the utility of fields as evaluative categories of argument. 15th
Biennial NCA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation, Alta, Utah, Aug. 2-5,
2007. (invited panelist with David Zarefsky, Jim Klumpp, and Robin Roland.)
11. Walton, D. and Godden, D. (2007). Redefining knowledge in a way suitable for
argumentation. In H.V. Hansen et. al. (Eds.), Dissensus and the Search for Common
Ground: Proceedings of the 7th Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)
Conference, June 6-9, 2007 (pp. 1-13). Windsor, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA7/papersandcommentaries/149/f
10. Godden, D. (2007). The importance of belief in argumentation: Belief, commitment and
the effective resolution of a difference of opinion. Dissensus and the Search for
Common Ground, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, June 6-9, 2007.
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Godden, D. (2006). The adequacy of foundationalism and coherence as regulative
models of belief change. International Society for the Study of Argumentation
(ISSA), 6th International Conference on Argumentation, at the University of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 27-30, 2006.
8.
Walton, D. and Godden, D. (2006). Alternatives to suspicion and trust as conditions for
challenge in argumentative dialogue. In P. Riley (Ed.), Engaging argument: Selected
papers from the 2005 NCA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation (pp. 438-444).
Washington, DC: National Communication Association.
7.
Walton, D. and Godden, D. (2005). The nature and status of critical questions in
argumentation schemes. In D. Hitchcock (Ed.), The uses of argument: Proceedings of
the 6th Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) Conference at McMaster
University, May 18-21, 2005 (pp. 476-484). Hamilton, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA6/papers/56/
6.
Griffin, N. and Godden, D. (2004). Psychologism and the development of Russell’s
theory of propositions. American Philosophical Association (Bertrand Russell
Society), Boston, MA, Dec. 28, 2004.
5.
Godden, D. (2003). Reconstruction and representation: Deductivism as an
interpretative strategy. In J.A Blair, D. Farr, H.V. Hansen, R.H. Johnson and C.W.
Tindale (Eds.), Informal Logic @ 25: Proceedings of the Windsor Ontario Society for the
Study of Argumentation Conference, May 14-17, 2003, (pp. 1-7). Windsor, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA5/papersandcommentaries/26/
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Godden, D. (2003). On Toulmin’s fields and Wittgenstein’s later views on logic. In F.H.
van Eemeren, J.A. Blair, C.A. Willard and A.F. Snoeck Henkemans (Eds.),
Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of
Argumentation (pp. 368-375). Amsterdam: Sic Sat.
3.
Godden, D. (2001). On the relation of argumentation and inference. In H.V. Hansen,
C.W. Tindale, J.A. Blair, R.H. Johnson and R.C. Pinto (Eds.), Argumentation and its
applications: Proceedings of the Fourth Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
(OSSA) Conference, May 17-19, 2001 (pp. 1-10). Windsor, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA4/papersandcommentaries/38/
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Godden, D. (1999). Psychologism in contemporary argumentation theory. In H.V.
Hansen, C.W. Tindale, and Elmar Sveda (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third Ontario
Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA) Conference: Argumentation at the
Century's Turn, May 15-17, 1999 (pp. 1-10). St. Catherines, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA3/papersandcommentaries/20/
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Godden, D. (2000). Reference, reduction and mental discourse. Ontario Philosophical
Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, October 28, 2000.
Commentaries: Presentations & Contributions to Proceedings
11. Godden, D. (2019). Commentary on: D. Castro: “Critical discussion in sub-optimal
settings.” Reason to dissent: 3rd European Conference on Argumentation (ECA),
University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, June 25 2019.
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10. Godden, D. (2017). Commentary on: M. Hinton: “On arguments from testimony.”
Argumentation and Inference: 2nd European Conference on Argumentation
(ECA), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, June 20-23 2017.
9.
Godden, D. (2016). Commentary on Jan Albert van Laar and Erik C.W. Krabbe:
“Splitting a difference of opinion.” In P. Bondy and L. Benacquista (Eds.),
Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of
the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), May 18-21, 2016 (pp. 1-9).
Windsor, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA11/papersandcommentaries/173/
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Godden, D. (2013). Commentary on: C. Campolo: “Argumentative virtues and deep
disagreement.” In D. Mohammed and M. Lewinski (Eds.), Virtues of argumentation:
Proceedings of the 10th international conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of
Argumentation (OSSA), 22-26 May 2013 (pp. 1-8). Windsor, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA10/papersandcommentaries/33/
7.
Godden, D. (2011). Commentary on K. Boyd: “P-dependency and the normative
significance of being Gettiered.” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual
Meeting at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2011. Fredericton,
NB, Canada, May 30 – June 2, 2011.
6.
Godden, D. (2011). Commentary on M. Finocchiaro: “Deep disagreements: A metaargumentation approach.” In F. Zenker et al. (Eds.) Argumentation: Cognition &
community: Proceedings of the 9th international conference of the Ontario Society for the
Study of Argumentation (OSSA), May 18-21, 2011 (pp. 1-7). Windsor, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA9/papersandcommentaries/31/
5.
Godden, D. (2009). Commentary on A. Aberdein: “Argumentation schemes and
communities of argumentational practice.” In J. Ritola et. al. (Eds.), Argument
Cultures: Proceedings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)
Conference, Windsor, ON, June 3-6, 2009 (pp. 1-4). Windsor, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA8/papersandcommentaries/2/
4.
Godden, D. (2007). Commentary on E.C.W. Krabbe: “Predicaments of the concluding
stage.” In H.V. Hansen et. al. (Eds.), Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground:
Proceedings of the 7th Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)
Conference, June 6-9, 2007 (pp. 1-5). Windsor, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA7/papersandcommentaries/91/
3.
Godden, D. (2005). Commentary on D. Jacquette: “Two sides of any issue.” The Uses
of Argument, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), Hamilton,
ON, May 18-21, 2005.
2.
Godden, D. (2004). Commentary on M. Allen: “A road less travelled.” American
Philosophical Association (Bertrand Russell Society), Boston, MA, Dec. 28, 2004.
1.
Godden, D. (1997). Commentary on J. Plug: “Indicators of obiter dicta.” In H.V.
Hansen, C.W. Tindale and A.V. Colman (Eds.), Argumentation and rhetoric:
Proceedings of the Second Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA)
Conference. St. Catherines, ON: OSSA.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA2/papersandcommentaries/85/
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Departmental Talks
* indicates an invited talk
18.* Trust and distrust in contexts of dissent: Persuasion failure as evidence of
untrustworthiness. Center for Research in Reasoning and Argumentation (CRRAR)
and PhD Program in Argumentation Studies Visiting Speaker Series, University of
Windsor, November 15, 2019.
17. Responding to parity of reasoning arguments: Rachels’s “Geographic Differences”
argument against cultural moral relativism. Undergraduate Philosophy Club,
Michigan State University. Oct. 30, 2019.
16.* . Theorizing testimony in argumentative contexts: Problems for assurance. Philosophy
Colloquium Series, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, April 4, 2019.
15.* No place for compromise: Resisting the shift to negotiation. Center for Research in
Reasoning and Argumentation (CRRAR) and PhD Program in Argumentation
Studies Visiting Speaker Series, University of Windsor, November 2, 2018.
14.* Theorizing testimony in argumentative contexts: Problems for assurance. Philosophy
Visiting Speaker Series, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, October 5, 2018.
13.* Testimony and trust in argumentative contexts. Center for Research in Reasoning and
Argumentation (CRRAR) and PhD Program in Argumentation Studies Visiting
Speaker Series, University of Windsor, October 20, 2017.
12.* Corroborative evidence: Sensitivity, safety, and explanation. Philosophy Visiting
Speaker Series, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, October 7, 2016.
11.* Corroborative evidence: Sensitivity, safety, and explanation. Philosophy Visiting
Speaker Series, McMaster University, April 8, 2016.
10. Corroborative evidence: Sensitivity, safety, and explanation. Philosophy Colloquium
Series, University of Waterloo, April 7, 2016.
9.
What should we do when we disagree? Epistemic dimensions of disagreement.
Undergraduate Philosophy Club, Michigan State University. Feb. 22, 2016.
8.
Corroboration, explanation, and sensitivity. Philosophy Department Research
Colloquium at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Feb. 5, 2013.
7.
Corroborative evidence. Philosophy Department Research Colloquium at Old
Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Feb. 16, 2010.
6.
Frege on the nature of proof and justification: Revisiting Frege’s epistemology.
Philosophy Dep’t Research Colloquium at Old Dominion University, Nov. 13, 2009.
5.
Rethinking the debriefing paradigm: Bounded rationality and normative explanations
of belief perseverance. Windsor Research Group for Argumentation and Informal
Logic, University of Windsor, Nov. 20, 2006.
4.* Theory of logic in the 19th century: Whately, Mill, Boole, Bolzano, and Frege on the
nature and subject matter of logic. Simon Fraser University, Graduate Seminar in
the History of Logic, March 17, 2006.
3.
On common knowledge and ad populum. University of Windsor Philosophy
Department Dry-Run Speaker Series, February 22, 2006.
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2.
Frege on the nature of philosophy. University of Windsor Philosophy Department
Graduate Seminar Series, February 16, 2006.
1.
Can we change our minds about everything? Quine on the revisability of belief.
University of Winnipeg Philosophy Department Colloquia Series, January 26, 2005.
Research Grants, Awards, & Fellowships
2019
Theorizing corroborative evidence. MSU Office of the Vice President for
Research and Graduate Studies, Humanities and Arts Research
Program (HARP), University Competition.
US$ 24,994
2016
How pictures persuade: Evaluating visual arguments. MSU CAL Faculty
Summer Fellowship Program (FSFP), College Competition.
US$
7,000
2013
How pictures persuade: Evaluating visual argument. ODU Summer
Research Fellowship Program (SRFP), University Competition.
US$
6,000
2009
Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT)
US$
Essay Award for: The importance of belief in argumentation. Synthese
300
2005-2006
SSHRC* Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2004
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Institutionally awarded)/annum CDN$ 31,200
2002-2003
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2000-2002
SSHRC* Doctoral Fellowship
2001-2002
McMaster Graduate Scholarship
(Declined by candidate)
CDN$ 8,000
2000-2001
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
(Declined by candidate)
CDN$ 11,859
2000-2001
McMaster Graduate Scholarship
(Declined by candidate)
CDN$ 8,000
2000-2001
James F. Harvey & Helen S. Harvey Travel Scholarship (McMaster)
CDN$ 1,000
2000-2001
Albert Shalom Travel Scholarship (McMaster)
CDN$ 1,000
1999-2000
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
CDN$ 11,859
1999-2000
McMaster Graduate Scholarship
1998-1999
McMaster Graduate Scholarship
/annum
CDN$ 35,000
CDN$ 15,000
/annum CDN$ 17,700
(Declined by candidate)
CDN$ 8,000
CDN$ 8,000
* SSHRC grants are funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of
Canada (Canada’s national granting agency), and are competitively awarded on the
basis of project applications submitted by the recipient.
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Teaching: Experience & Development
Courses Taught
Michigan State University
Epistemology (Phil 460): 2020F, 2019F, 2017F, 2016F
Formal Reasoning [Logic] (Phil 330): 2021S, 2020S, 2018S, 2017S, 2016S , 2016F
Undergraduate Capstone Seminar (Phl492): 2021S, 2020S
20th Century Philosophy [Analytical] (Phil 418): 2017S, 2015F
Logic and Reasoning [Critical Thinking] (Phil 130): 2020F, 2018S, 2017S
Introduction to Philosophy (Phil 101): 2015F
Wittgenstein Graduate Seminar (Phil 810/860): 2019F
Old Dominion University
Theory of Knowledge (Phil 434/534): 2013F, 2011F, 2010S
Contemporary Analytical Philosophy (Phil 406/506): 2015S, 2011S
Modern Philosophy (Phil 331): 2015S – 2012S
Philosophy of Language (Phil 495/595): 2012F, 2010F
Introduction to Philosophy (Phil 110P), 20015S-2008F
University of Winnipeg
Abduction & Inference to the Best Explanation (Phil 3301.6): 2008W
Values and the Human Condition (Intro Phil) (Phil-1002.6): 2008W&Su
Philosophy of Mind (Phil 2264.3): 2007F
Introduction to Logical Reasoning (Phil 1301.6 ): 2007-08 F/W
Logic (Phil 35.2302/6): 2004-05 F/W
University of Windsor
Reasoning About Weird Things (Phil 01-34-266): 2006W
Reasoning Skills (Phil 01-34-160): 2005F, 2004W
McMaster University
Modern Philosophy (Phil 2C06E): 2002-03 F/W
Teaching Assistant, September 1998 to April 2002, and September 2003 to April 2004
Courses: (i) Modern Philosophy (Descartes to Hume), (ii) Formal Logic, (iii)
Philosophy of Psychology (Descartes, Freud, Foucault), (iv) Critical Thinking
Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford Campus)
Reasoning & Argumentation (PY/CS 201): 2002W
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Graduate Supervision and Examination
2019- Bethany Laursen: Guidance Committee, PhD in Community Sustainability
(Defended: March 12, 2020)
2019- Jeffrey Davis: Guidance Committee, PhD in Philosophy
2018. Bethany Laursen: Examining Committee, MA in Philosophy (March 22, 2018)
2018. Jeffrey Davis: Faculty mentor for Summer Scholar Research Fellowship
2016. Bethany Laursen: Faculty mentor for Summer Scholar Research Fellowship
Teaching Development
2016. Attendee. American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Twenty-First Biennial
AAPT Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy, July 27-31, 2016,
Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, Michigan.
2015. Presenter. Teaching Critical Thinking through Rational Entitlement and Responsibility.
The Provost’s Conversations on Teaching and Learning, Center for Teaching &
Learning, ODU. January 22, 2015.
Video of presentation available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGgXFxOZzqY
2013. Participant. Learning Through Writing: Improving Disciplinary Writing, Spring term
workshop series
Quality Enhancement Program, Center for Teaching & Learning, ODU.
2001. Participant. Principles and Practice of University Teaching, Full graduate course
Topics: effective lecturing, making presentations, problem-based learning,
leading small groups, course design, constructing tests and student evaluation.
Centre for Leadership in Learning, McMaster University.
Service: Professional & Academic
Leadership & Professional Development
2019. College of Arts and Letters Leadership Fellows Program Participant
Service to Profession
Directing & Organizational Board:
(i) International Society for the Study of Argumentation (2009 – present).
Editorial Boards:
(i) Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice (2018-present)
(ii) Argumentation and Advocacy (2017-present)
(iii) Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy (2010- present),
(iv) Cogency: Journal of Reasoning and Argumentation (Scientific Committee, 2010 present),
(v) Windsor Studies in Argumentation (book series) (Editorial Board, 2012-present).
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Referee for Journals:
(i) Argumentation (2020 - 2009 incl., 2007, 2005, 2004)
(ii) Informal Logic (2018, 2017, 2015 - 2009 incl., 2007)
(iii) Argumentation & Advocacy (2020 – 2017 incl., 2014, 2013, 2011, 2006)
(iv) Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2016, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2007)
(v) Synthese (2019, 2018, 2017, 2014)
(vi) Journal of Argumentation in Context (2020, 2019, 2017)
(vii) Cogency: Journal of Reasoning and Argumentation (2017, 2011)
(viii) Studies in Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric (2019, 2018)
(ix) Dialogue (2018, 2004)
(x) Topoi: International Review of Philosophy (2015, 2014)
(xi) Journal of Philosophical Research (2017, 2009)
(xii) Philosophical Studies (2019)
(xiii) Pragmatics and Philosophy (2019)
(xiv) Journal of the History of Philosophy (2019)
(xv) Revista Iberoamericana de Argumentación (2018)
(xvi) Journal of Applied Philosophy (2018)
(xvii) Logique et Analyse (2014)
(xviii) Philosophy and Technology (2015)
(xix) Pragmatics & Cognition (2011)
(xx) Philosophy & Rhetoric (2010)
(xxi) History and Philosophy of Logic (2008)
Referee for presses:
(i) Routledge (2019)
(ii) John Benjamins (2010),
(iii) College Publications (2009),
(iv) Cambridge University Press (2006).
Guest editor and co-editorships:
(i) Topoi, Special Issue: “Epistemology of Disagreement: Perspectives from
Philosophy and Argumentation,” with P. Bondy, (in process),
(ii) (2019). Topoi, Special Issue: “The practice(s) of giving reasons,” with C. Campolo
(iii) (2018). Proceedings of the Ninth International Society for the Study of Argumentation
Conference, with B. Garrsen, J. Wegemans, and G. Mitchell.
(iv) (2016). Argumentation and Advocacy, Special Issue: “Twenty years of visual
argument,” vol. 52(4), with L. Groarke and C. Palczewski.
(v) (2015). Proceedings of the Eighth International Society for the Study of Argumentation
Conference, with F.H. van Eemeren, B. Garrsen, and G. Mitchell.
(vi) (2011).Proceedings of the Seventh International Society for the Study of Argumentation
Conference, with F.H. van Eemeren, B. Garrsen, and G. Mitchell.
(vii) (2007). Informal Logic, Special Issue on Douglas Walton, vol. 27(1).
(viii) (2007). Managing editor, Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground
Conference Proceedings, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA).
Conference directing, organizational, and program committee:
(i) Program committee member, 3rd European Conference on Argumentation:
Argumentation and Inference, June 24-27, 2019, Groningen, the Netherlands.
(ii) Planning and program committee member, 9th Conference of the International
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Society for the Study of Argumentation, July 1-6, 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(ii) Program committee member, 2nd European Conference on Argumentation:
Argumentation and Inference, June 20-23, 2017, Fribourg, Switzerland.
(iii) Program committee member, 1st European Conference on Argumentation:
Argumentation and Reasoned Action, June 9-12, 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
(iv) Planning and program committee member, 8th Conference of the International
Society for the Study of Argumentation, July 1-4, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
(v) Program committee member, Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground,
Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, June 2007, Windsor, Canada.
(vi) Program committee member, The Uses of Argument, Ontario Society for the
Study of Argumentation, May 2005, Hamilton, Canada.
Member of the Award Committee for the J. Anthony Blair Student Essay Prize in
Argumentation, 2009.
Webmaster for the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
(AILACT), June 2007 – July 2012.
Academic Service to University
Michigan State University
Undergraduate Program Director,
2019f - present. Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University.
Departmental Advisory Policy Committee (APC),
2017f - present. Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University.
College Curriculum Committee (CCC),
2018f-present. College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University
College Undergraduate Committee (CUC),
2018f-present. College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University
College Advisory Committee (CAC),
2017f-2018s. College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University
Academic Environment Committee (AEC), (Chair from 2016su – 2017su)
(mainly responsible for organizing the distinguished and visiting speaker series)
2015f – 2017su. Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University.
Ad Hoc Departmental Committee on Diversity & Curricular Reform,
2015f – 2017s. Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University.
Prior to appointment at Michigan State University
Old Dominion University
2015-14. Research and Publications Committee, College of Arts & Letters.
2014. General Education Assessment Committee (GEAC),
Departmental representative to university-wide panels. Member of departmental
assessment team for student learning outcomes for introductory philosophy and
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ethics courses; participated in assessment summit for writing-intensive courses
across the curriculum
2014. Departmental Criteria for Evaluating Scholarly Activity and Research (Chair),
Dept. of Phil & RS.
2014-2012. Dean’s Advisory Council, College of Arts & Letters
2014-2011. Lecturer Promotion Review Committee, Dept. of Phil & RS.
2014-2011. Lecturer Teaching Portfolio Review Committee, Dept. of Phil & RS.
2014-2013. Search Committee Chair (full-time lecturer), Dept. of Phil & RS.
2012. ODU University representative to Virginia Department of Education (VDoE). End
of Course (EOC) Standards of Learning (SOL) reading higher education standard
setting meeting, Nov. 7-8, 2012, Glen Allen, VA.
2012. Technology Committee, College of Arts & Letters.
2012-2011. Search Committee Member (full-time assistant professor), Dept. of Phil & RS.
2012-2011, 2010-2008. Teaching Committee, College of Arts & Letters.
2012-2010. Curriculum Committee, College of Arts & Letters.
Professional Affiliations
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International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA)
Member of Board of Directors / Organizational Board (2009 – present)
American Philosophical Association
Canadian Society for Epistemology (CSE)
Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP)
American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT)
Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT)
Links to Online Profiles
Personal Website:
http://www.davidgodden.ca
PhilPapers.org:
http://philpapers.org/profile/17333
Academia.edu:
https://michiganstate.academia.edu/DavidGodden
Google Scholar:
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nRHK2wcAAAAJ
MSU faculty webpage:http://www.philosophy.msu.edu/people/faculty/davidgodden
ORCiD:
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4870-6331
Publons:
https://publons.com/author/1381617/david-godden
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