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    A Theory of Argument.Mark Vorobej - 2006 - Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
    A Theory of Argument is an advanced textbook intended for students in philosophy, communications studies and linguistics who have completed at least one course in argumentation theory, information logic, critical thinking or formal logic. Containing nearly 400 exercises, Mark Vorobej develops a novel approach to argument interpretation and evaluation. One of the key themes of the book is that we cannot succeed in distinguishing good argument from bad arguments until we learn to listen carefully to others. Part I develops a (...)
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  2. (1 other version)A Theory of Argument.Mark Vorobej - 2007 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 13 (2):245-246.
     
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    Hybrid Arguments.Mark Vorobej - 1995 - Informal Logic 17 (2).
    Sometimes logical support for a conclusion is provided exclusively by premises which are independently relevant to that conclusion. At other times, support is provided exclusively by independently irrelevant premises. On still other occasions, relevant and irrelevant premises may collectively offer a distinctive pattern of support. This paper provides a rigorous account of some of these differences in terms of a tripartite classification of convergent, linked and hybrid arguments. These various arguments are defined, diagrammed, and some of their logical properties are (...)
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    The Concept of Violence.Mark Vorobej - 2016 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    This study focuses on conceptual questions that arise when we explore the fundamental aspects of violence. Mark Vorobej teases apart what is meant by the term ‘violence,’ showing that it is a surprisingly complex, unwieldy and highly contested concept. Rather than attempting to develop a fixed definition of violence, Vorobej explores the varied dimensions of the phenomenon of violence and the questions they raise, addressing the criteria of harm, agency, victimhood, instrumentality, and normativity. Vorobej uses this multifaceted understanding of violence (...)
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    The TRUE Test of Linkage.Mark Vorobej - 1994 - Informal Logic 16 (3):147-157.
    There are many radically different ways of understanding the distinction between linked and convergent arguments. This paper provides a generic model which enables one to articulate in a rigorous manner the important differences as well as the underlying similarities that exist between competing proposals. In addition, the paper offers a TRUE (Type Reduction Upon Elimination) test for distinguishing linked from convergent arguments which best captures the informal intuition that linked arguments are especially vulnerable to local criticisms pertaining to premise acceptability.
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    Defining Deduction.Mark Vorobej - 1992 - Informal Logic 14 (2).
    This paper defends the view that the classification of an argument as being deductive ought to rest exclusively upon psychological considerations; specifically, upon whether the argument's author holds certain beliefs. This account is justified on theoretical and pedagogical grounds, and situated within a general taxonomy of competing proposals. Epistemological difficulties involved in the application of psychological definitions are recognized but claimed to be ineliminable from the praetice of argumentation. The paper concludes by discussing embryonic arguments where the author's relevant beliefs (...)
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    Gauthier on Deterrence.Mark Vorobej - 1986 - Dialogue 25 (3):471-.
    Suppose that two nations A and B each possess a nuclear arsenal and are rational utility-maximizers. Suppose further that B has some interest in provoking A, possibly by attacking her with nuclear weapons. In the hope of preventing this from happening, A informs B of à conditional intention on her part to retaliate against B with nuclear weapons should B in fact attack A. By doing so A attempts to lower the probability of B's attacking A by increasing B's estimate (...)
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    Past desires.Mark Vorobej - 1998 - Philosophical Studies 90 (3):305-318.
  9. Distant Peers.Mark Vorobej - 2011 - Metaphilosophy 42 (5):708-722.
    What is the nature of rational disagreement? A number of philosophers have recently addressed this question by examining how we should respond to epistemic conflict with a so-called epistemic peer—that is, someone over whom you enjoy no epistemic advantage. Some say that you're rationally required to suspend judgment in these cases—thereby denying the very possibility of a certain kind of rational disagreement. Others say that it's permissible to retain your beliefs even in the face of epistemic conflict. By distinguishing between (...)
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    Was World War Two a Completely Just War?Mark Vorobej - 2019 - Journal of Military Ethics 18 (4):299-313.
    According to Brian Orend’s binary political model, minimally just states possess a robust set of moral rights, while other states essentially exist in a moral vacuum in which they possess no moral rights. I argue that a more plausible comparative model would allow for a state to acquire (or lose) discrete moral rights as it improves (or damages) its moral record. This would generate a more accurate portrayal of both domestic policy within states and military conflict between states; including, in (...)
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    Conditional Obligation and Detachment.Mark I. Vorobej - 1986 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (1):11 - 26.
    Suppose that John has a moral obligation to stop smoking given that smoking is dangerous to his health. Suppose further that smoking is dangerous to his health. Does it follow that John has a moral obligation to stop smoking? Although intuition inclines one to answer in the affirmative, recent developments in deontic logic apparently call this inference into question. The issue at hand is whether unconditional obligations are detachable from conditional obligations on the basis of purely factual considerations. I believe (...)
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    Linked arguments and the validity requirement.Mark Vorobej - 1995 - Argumentation 9 (2):291-304.
    In this paper I demonstrate that most textbook accounts of the linked/convergent distinction fail to conform to the widespread intuition that all valid arguments ought to be classified as linked arguments. I also show that standard textbook accounts of linkage and convergence cannot provide a satisfactory treatment of fallacies of irrelevance and, due to their general insensitivity to the epistemic context in which arguments are offered, must be supplemented by subjective accounts of linkage and convergence which appeal exclusively to authorial (...)
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    Deontic accessibility.Mark Vorobej - 1982 - Philosophical Studies 41 (3):317 - 319.
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    Logic on the Track of Social Change.Mark Vorobej - 2001 - Mind 110 (440):1054-1057.
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    (1 other version)Criteria and conditionals.Mark Vorobej - 1984 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (1):123-128.
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    Cogency, Compactness and Microstructure.Mark Vorobej - 2008 - Informal Logic 28 (3):279-281.
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    Commentary on Jovicic.Mark Vorobej - unknown
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    Commentary on Pinto.Mark Vorobej - unknown
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    Commentary on Reed & Long.Mark Vorobej - unknown
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    D. N. Walton, Argument structure, A Pragmatic Theory.Mark Vorobej - 1998 - Argumentation 12 (3):421-425.
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    Defeasibility, Trust, and the Priority Thesis.Mark Vorobej - 2006 - Dialogue 45 (4):755-761.
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    Fallacies on Film.Mark Vorobej - unknown
    This paper explores the question of how films may be used to enhance the teaching of fallacies. Theoretical questions about the nature of fallacies will be addressed along with pedagogical issues. The paper is structured around a case study—an examination of various arguments from ignorance as articulated by fictional characters in the 1964 Hammer horror production of The Gorgon.
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    (1 other version)Hybrid Arguments and Moral Relevance.Mark Vorobej - 2012 - Informal Logic 32 (3):306-312.
    Some of Jonathan Dancy's strongest arguments in support of moral particularism depend crucially upon the distinction he draws between three different kinds of relevance relations -- favourers, intensifiers and enablers. In this paper I generalize certain features of Dancy's account of the different roles that premises can play in moral argumentation. Most significantly, I argue that both intensifiers and enablers play parallel roles within different kinds of supplementation relations. This matters since it is common for people to accept Dancy's account (...)
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  24. (1 other version)Jay F. Rosenberg, The Thinking Self Reviewed by.Mark Vorobej - 1987 - Philosophy in Review 7 (12):524-526.
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  25. (1 other version)Jordan Howard Sobel, Taking Chances: Essays on Rational Choice Reviewed by.Mark Vorobej - 1996 - Philosophy in Review 16 (1):64-66.
     
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  26. (1 other version)Karen Schweers Cook and Margaret Levi, eds., The Limits of Rationality Reviewed by.Mark Vorobej - 1991 - Philosophy in Review 11 (6):384-387.
     
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    Monsters and the Paradox of Horror.Mark Vorobej - 1997 - Dialogue 36 (2):219-246.
    L'horreur en art vise à effrayer, bouleverser, dégoûter et terroriser. Puisque nous ne sommes pas normalement attirés par de ielles expériences, pourquoi quiconque s'exposerait-il délibérément a la fiction d'horreur? Noel Carroll soutient que le caractère constant du phénomène de l'horreur en art tient à certains plaisirs d'ordre cognitif, qui résultent de la satisfaction de notre curiosité naturelle à l'ègard des monstres. Je soutiens, quant è moi, que la solution cognitive de Carroll auparadoxe de l'horreur est profondément erronée, étant donné la (...)
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    Monstrous Equivocation.Mark Vorobej - 1996 - Film and Philosophy 3:3-13.
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    Moderate universalizability.Mark Vorobej - 2005 - Philosophia 32 (1-4):295-311.
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  30. Nicholas Rescher, A System of Pragmatic Idealism. Volume II: The Validity of Values Reviewed by.Mark Vorobej - 1993 - Philosophy in Review 13 (6):336-338.
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  31. Nicholas Rescher, Pascal's Wager: A Study of Practical Reasoning in Philosophical Theology.Mark Vorobej - 1986 - Philosophy in Review 6 (6):299-301.
     
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    On the central principle of deontic logic.Mark Vorobej - 1986 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (1):137-143.
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    Pacifism and Wartime Innocence.Mark Vorobej - 1994 - Social Theory and Practice 20 (2):171-191.
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    Promoting the past.Mark Vorobej - 1999 - Philosophia 27 (3-4):523-534.
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    Rationality and time preference.Mark Vorobej - 1987 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 25 (3):407-423.
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    Relative virtue.Mark Vorobej - 1984 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (4):535-541.
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  37. Structural Violence.Mark Vorobej - 2008 - Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies 40 (2):84-98.
    Over the past forty years, Johan Galtung has extensively employed a broad definition of peace that incorporates the notion of structural violence. Roughly, structural violence is violence that results in harm but is not caused by a clearly identifiable actor, and positive peace is the absence of structural violence. Galtung’s account of structural violence, while highly influential, has recently been subjected to a surprisingly hostile critique by C. A. J. Coady in his 2008 study, Morality and Political Violence. In this (...)
     
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    Thick Cogency.Mark Vorobej - unknown
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    Timeless reasons.Mark Vorobej - 1988 - Philosophical Studies 53 (3):461 - 471.
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    The Robbery Paradox.Mark Vorobej - 1983 - Dialogue 22 (3):433-440.
    James E. Tomberlin [6] has recently argued that the logical systems of conditional obligation proposed by Azizah al-Hibri [1] and Peter Mott [5] are incapable of resolving at least one variant of the notorious contrary to duty imperative paradox, formulated originally by Chisholm [2]. Tomberlin concedes that these systems offer the very best of the' “conditional obligation approach” to deontic logic and concludes his critical discussion with the pessimistic remark that “the best of this approach is simply not good enough. (...)
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    Book reviews and critical studies. [REVIEW]Felix Grayeff, Yuval Lurie, O. H. Green, Ashok Vohra, Herbert Moskowitz, F. Günthner & Mark Vorobej - 1983 - Philosophia 13 (3-4):349-407.
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    D.N. Walton, Appeal to Expert Opinion: Arguments from Authority. [REVIEW]Mark Vorobej - 2002 - Argumentation 16 (2):251-255.
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    Formal Ethics. [REVIEW]Mark Vorobej - 1999 - Dialogue 38 (2):449-450.
    “A good formula,” writes Gensler, “is a powerful thing. Life would be impoverished if we had no formulas”. The formulas which most interest Gensler are those formal ethical principles which are expressible using only variables and constants, and which are neutral with respect to meta-ethical and normative issues, and so “can supplement and enhance virtually any approach to ethics”. “Formal ethics” is the systematic study of such formulas, including the principles of logicality, conscientiousness, universalizability, and the golden rule.
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    Formal Ethics Harry J. Gensler New York: Routledge, 1996, viii + 213 pp. $83.95, $23.95 paper. [REVIEW]Mark Vorobej - 1999 - Dialogue 38 (2):449-.
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    Justice and Justification: Reflective Equilibrium in Theory and PracticeNorman Daniels Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xiii + 365 pp., $59.95, $18.95 paper. [REVIEW]Mark Vorobej - 1998 - Dialogue 37 (4):853-855.
    Norman Daniels is perhaps best known as one of America’s foremost champions of coherentist moral epistemology, and the justificatory method of wide reflective equilibrium in particular. The striking coherence of Daniels’s career itself is evident in this collection of sixteen of his essays, composed over an eighteen-year period. To a large extent, these essays extend the work of John Rawls—either by attempting to make greater theoretical sense of WRE, or by applying abstract Rawlsian arguments to concrete social problems in applied (...)
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    Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes Charles Hartshorne Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 144. $10.95. [REVIEW]Mark Vorobej - 1985 - Dialogue 24 (4):759-.
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    Taking Laughter Seriously. [REVIEW]Mark Vorobej - 1984 - International Philosophical Quarterly 24 (3):337-338.
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  48. W. Rabinowicz, Universalizability. [REVIEW]Mark Vorobej - 1982 - Philosophy in Review 2 (2/3):130-132.
     
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