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Stephen Toulmin

By: Emily Donnan. Stephen Toulmin. Born March 25, 1922 in London, England B.A. in mathematics and physics at King’s College (1942) Officer for the Ministry of Aircraft production in WWII PhD in ethics from Cambridge University (1948).

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Stephen Toulmin

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  1. By: Emily Donnan Stephen Toulmin

  2. Born March 25, 1922 in London, England • B.A. in mathematics and physics at King’s College (1942) • Officer for the Ministry of Aircraft production in WWII • PhD in ethics from Cambridge University (1948)

  3. Ludwig Wittgenstein- relationship between meanings and uses of language • Had a large influence on Toulmin’s work • Appointed university lecturer in philosophy at Oxford University • Wrote The Philosophy of Science: an Introduction (1952)

  4. 1955- served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Leeds • Published The Uses of Argument (1958)

  5. The Uses of Argument • Ridiculed by professors in England as “Toulmin’s anti-logic book” • 1959: returned to U.S. • Book praised by American rhetoricians • Toulmin Model of Argumentation; most influential work- esp. in rhetoric and communication

  6. professorships at Columbia, Dartmouth, Michigan State, Northwestern, Stanford and the University of Chicago • 1960- director of the Unit for the History of Ideas of the Nuffield Foundation (London) • Returned to U.S. in 1965

  7. became professor of history of ideas and philosophy at Brandeis University • 1972- University of California, Santa Cruz, Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts • 1973-1986 professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago

  8. Currently- Henry R. Luce Professor at the Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies at the University of Southern California School of International Relations

  9. Philosophy of Science (1953) • The Uses of Argument (1958) • Foresight and Understanding(1960) • The Discovery of Time (1965) • Physical Reality: Philosophical Essays on 20th Century Physics (1970) • Wittgenstein’s Vienna (co-authored with Alan Janik) (1973) • Knowing and Acting (1976) • Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity (1990) • The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning (co-authored with Albert R. Jonsen) (1990) • Return to Reason (2001).

  10. QUIZ!! • 1. Where was Toulmin born? • London • 2. True or False: Philosophers around the world praised Toulmin for his model on argumentation. • False • 3. What University is Toulmin working in today? • University of Southern California

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