In Memoriam: Stephen Edelston Toulmin 1922-2009

In memoriam Piotr Slonimski (1922-2009) the unconventional yeast geneticist.

PIOTR Slonimski, one of the forebears of yeast molecular genetics, died in Paris, France April 25, 2009. He was 86 years old. His exceptional personality and scientific contributions made him so well known among the international genetic community that his first name, Piotr, was usually sufficient to identify him in conversation. During the early 1970s, Slonimski was one of the principal founde...

Eight Theses Reflecting on Stephen Toulmin

I discuss eight theses espoused or occasioned by Toulmin: (1) The validity standard is nearly always the wrong standard for real-life reasoning. (2) Little in good reasoning is topic neutral. (3) The probability calculus distorts much probabilistic reasoning. (4) Scant resources have a benign influence on human reasoning. (5) Theoretical progress and conceptual change are connected. (6) Logic s...

The Toulmin Model Today: Introduction to the Special Issue on Contemporary Work using Stephen Edelston Toulmin’s Layout of Arguments

In 1958, Stephen Edelston Toulmin’s The Uses of Argument saw the light of day. This book has never been out of print; an updated second edition appeared in 2003. It has influenced, and continues to influence, researchers in speech communication and philosophy, and also in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology and application domains such as law and medicine. In The Uses of Argument Toul...

In memoriam: Beverly Petterson Bishop (1922-2008).

PTJ does not usually publish tributes, as there are so many physical therapists who have given so much to their profession and to rehabilitation science. We make an exception in this case because of the direct impact that Dr Beverly Bishop has had on PTJ's Editorial Board over the years. B orn in Corning, NY, Bishop earned a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Syracuse University in ...

In memoriam: Stephen F. Lowry, MD, MBA.