Christopher W Tindale
Biographic Data
| ID | 3531536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher W Tindale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher W |
| FAMILY NAME | Tindale |
| SIGNATURE | TINDALE C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Windsor |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2820-1416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Standing on a Bridge Between Cultures
Against the backdrop of globalization, the increasing diversity of languages and cultures has underscored the pressing need for cross-cultural comprehension and effective communication. This article stands at the junction of argumentation theory and translation studies, exploring their interrelationship. Using the “Hao Bridge Debate” as a case study, the article adopts a rhetorical perspective to explore the challenges of conveying ideas across l…
Dialectic, Dialogue, and Difference
For Richard McKeon (1975), the relationships between Greek dialectics and dialogue and rhetoric involve the “fruitful interplay of controversy and agreement,” and he judges this interplay to be the contribution that Greek dialectic makes to Western history and thought. Thus, he promises to enrich ongoing challenges of diversity, involving his own ideas on pluralism. This article reflects on and furthers that thinking, connecting early Greek insig…
The Intellectual and Cultural Origins of Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca’s New Rhetoric Project
It is a mere fifty-five years since the bulk of the New Rhetoric Project (NRP) was presented to English-speaking (and -reading) audiences in the John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver 1969 translation. Not long in the grand scheme of things, but long enough for certain orthodoxies to become established in the literature. We know, for example, that this was a return to Aristotle to recover ideas that had long been lost and that would undergird the logi…
Christopher Tindale
The interview conducted with Christopher Tindale by Ruth Amossy in this special issue on “Challenging Rhetoric” proposes a survey of Tindale’s innovative work. Developing from Informal Logic to a theory of Rhetorical Argumentation, it eventually leads to an anthropological approach that challenges the Western rhetorical tradition. It assumes that ways of reasoning are culture-dependent and that arguments as reason-giving can take many forms beyon…
Christopher Tindale
L’entretien mené avec Christopher Tindale par Ruth Amossy dans ce numéro spécial sur les défis lancés à la rhétorique propose un tour d’horizon du travail innovant du chercheur canadien. Passant de la logique informelle à une théorie de l’argumentation rhétorique, Tindale aboutit finalement à une approche anthropologique qui met au défi la tradition rhétorique occidentale. Cette approche part du principe que les modes de raisonnement dépendent de…
Logos in the Flux of Life
Since at least the work of Plato, the Western philosophical tradition has observed an ambition to detect fixed truths in the swirling movements of discourse. Related to this is the tension at the heart of our understandings of “argument,” a tension between a set of fixed propositions abstracted from the dynamic of human exchanges, and those exchanges themselves, alive with the uncertainties of experience. This article explores this tension with a…
Place and Time in Argumentation
Retórica e interdisciplinaridade
Nesta entrevista, mergulhamos na carreira do Professor Christopher Tindale, desde os seus anos de doutorado, passando pelo seu trabalho na Universidade de Trent, até seu convite para se juntar ao Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR) da Universidade de Windsor, onde trabalha atualmente. Falamos sobre sua experiência no CRARR e da sua interação com outros importantes estudiosos da argumentação, bem como sobre o papel…
Rhetoric and interdisciplinarity
In this interview, we dive into Professor Christopher Tindale’s career, starting from his years as a doctoral student, passing through his work at the University of Trent until his invitation to join the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR) at the University of Windsor, where he presently works. We talk about his experience in CRARR and his interaction with other important argumentation scholars, as well as the rol…
Retórica e interdisciplinariedad
En esta entrevista, nos sumergimos en la carrera del profesor Christopher Tindale, empezando por sus años como estudiante de doctorado, pasando por su trabajo en la Universidad de Trent, hasta su invitación a unirse al Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (Centro de Investigación en Razonamiento, Argumentación y Retórica, CRRAR) de la Universidad de Windsor, donde trabaja actualmente. Hablamos de su experiencia en el CRRAR…
Mind the Gap
Discourses conceal as much as they reveal, but in their concealment they may invite an audience into the silences of the gaps and pauses they contain in order to reflect and find insight. The moments of opportunity provided by these gaps suggest two sides to the concept of kairos, capturing both the ability of the author/speaker to create the opportune moment in the discourse, and the ability of the reader/listener to see that moment and the expe…
How We Argue
Arguments and definitions (cults and presidents)
Arguing with Numbers
Part of the RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric, this volume brings together the insights of a diverse group of rhetorical scholars exploring the rhetorical dimensions of mathematics. There is no single perspective or approach on display as the reader is presented with studies of the rhetoric of mathematics as well as the use of rhetoric in mathematics and the rhetorical nature of mathematical language. These three prongs structure Edward Sc…
Place and Time in Argumentation
Utterer Meaning, Misunderstanding, and Cultural Knowledge
All versions of Grice's theory of utterer meaning couch success in terms of stressing the hearer's ability to recognize what is intended. This ties naturally to the cooperative principle and the maxims of conversation. A later additional maxim of manner emphasizes that one should always facility the audience's response in one's communication. Meaning communication is successful with the right "uptake", whether seen in the desires or beliefs that …
La raison interculturelle et les conditions préliminaires de l’argumentation
Dans la Nouvelle rhétorique, Perelman et Olbrechts-Tyteca évoquent d’entrée de jeu le spectre du fanatique qui « adhérant à une thèse contestée, et dont la preuve indiscutable ne peut être fournie, refuse néanmoins la possibilité de la soumettre à une libre discussion, et par conséquent, refuse les conditions préalables qui permettraient, sur ce point, l’exercice de l’argumentation » (1970 : 82). L’une des suggestions intéressantes de ce passage …
Legally Speaking
Legal argumentation operates internally, in the construction of decisions, and externally, in the communication of those decisions. In this paper, I am interested in the external communication of legal decisions and the standards they assume. Treating “fine print” as a metonym that stands for much more than just contract disclosure, I explore what legal argumentation highlights and ways in which it marginalises features that a fully informed publ…
The Moral Sense in the Time of the Recluse
The circumstances of the pandemic, while inviting lessons from earlier reclusions, prompt reflection on what is lost when we are forced apart. The moral sense, as Darwin reminds us, is founded in communal bonds, the very things now brought into question. How then are values—and the dispositions that inform them—being challenged by a rhetoric of care
Self-deliberation and the Strategy of the Pseudo-dialogue
The New Rhetoric identifies the self-deliberator as one of three main types of audience. But such a turn toward the self is at odds with studies of contemporary argumentation, particularly social argumentation. Argumentation takes place “out there”, modifying the environments in which audiences operate. Equally interesting is the use of self-deliberation as a rhetorical strategy. Arguing with oneself, especially when that self is distanced in som…
Anthropology of Argument
This innovative text reinvigorates argumentation studies by exploring the experience of argument across cultures, introducing an anthropological perspective into the domains of rhetoric, communication, and philosophy. The Anthropology of Argument fills an important gap in contemporary argumentation theory by shifting the focus away from the purely propositional element of arguments and onto how they emerge from the experiences of peoples with div…
Analogical Arguments
The Philosophy of Argument and Audience Reception
Recent work in argumentation theory has emphasized the nature of arguers and arguments along with various theoretical perspectives. Less attention has been given to the third feature of any argumentative situation - the audience. This book fills that gap by studying audience reception to argumentation and the problems that come to light as a result of this shift in focus. Christopher W. Tindale advances the tacit theories of several earlier think…
Philosophy of Argument and Audience Reception
Analogical Reasoning and Semantic Rules of Inference
The nature of Aristotle’s topics has been a crucial issue in the Middle Ages (Abaelardi Dialectica, 254) and in the modern and contemporary studies on natural inferences (De Pater 1965; Stump 1982; 1988; Kienpointnter 1986). One of the crucial debates concerned their function, i.e. whether they were instruments for fi nding arguments or rules on which dialectical and rhetorical inferences were based (Bird 1962). The interpretation of the Aristote…
Utterer Meaning, Misunderstanding, and Cultural Knowledge
All versions of Grice's theory of utterer meaning couch success in terms of stressing the hearer's ability to recognize what is intended. This ties naturally to the cooperative principle and the maxims of conversation. A later additional maxim of manner emphasizes that one should always facility the audience's response in one's communication. Meaning communication is successful with the right "uptake", whether seen in the desires or beliefs that …
Totipotency and the value of embryonic cells
The Logic of Torture
Analyse des cinq principaux arguments (institutionnel, belliqueux, informationnel, relatif a la securite de l'Etat, philosophique) developpes en faveur d'une justification de la pratique de la torture sous ses formes modernes (interrogatoire, force de dissuasion, deshumanisation) dans des etats democratiques ou non-democratiques tels que l'Irlande du Nord, la Chine, la Birmanie, l'ile de Timor
The Authority of Testimony
Out of the Space of Reasons
The paper investigates the ‘logical space of reasons’ as a social space in which rational agents operate and persons in an important sense come to be. Building from an investigation of argumentative agents in Aristotle’s Rhetoric , I discuss both interior and exterior criteria for personhood and propose that the latter shows how argumentation, as a principal activity of the space of reasons, results in the particular kinds of persons we recognize…
Fallacies and Argument Appraisal
Analogical Reasoning and Semantic Rules of Inference
The nature of Aristotle’s topics has been a crucial issue in the Middle Ages (Abaelardi Dialectica, 254) and in the modern and contemporary studies on natural inferences (De Pater 1965; Stump 1982; 1988; Kienpointnter 1986). One of the crucial debates concerned their function, i.e. whether they were instruments for fi nding arguments or rules on which dialectical and rhetorical inferences were based (Bird 1962). The interpretation of the Aristote…
The Philosophy of Argument and Audience Reception
Recent work in argumentation theory has emphasized the nature of arguers and arguments along with various theoretical perspectives. Less attention has been given to the third feature of any argumentative situation - the audience. This book fills that gap by studying audience reception to argumentation and the problems that come to light as a result of this shift in focus. Christopher W. Tindale advances the tacit theories of several earlier think…
Philosophy of Argument and Audience Reception
Analogical Arguments
La raison interculturelle et les conditions préliminaires de l’argumentation
Dans la Nouvelle rhétorique, Perelman et Olbrechts-Tyteca évoquent d’entrée de jeu le spectre du fanatique qui « adhérant à une thèse contestée, et dont la preuve indiscutable ne peut être fournie, refuse néanmoins la possibilité de la soumettre à une libre discussion, et par conséquent, refuse les conditions préalables qui permettraient, sur ce point, l’exercice de l’argumentation » (1970 : 82). L’une des suggestions intéressantes de ce passage …
Legally Speaking
Legal argumentation operates internally, in the construction of decisions, and externally, in the communication of those decisions. In this paper, I am interested in the external communication of legal decisions and the standards they assume. Treating “fine print” as a metonym that stands for much more than just contract disclosure, I explore what legal argumentation highlights and ways in which it marginalises features that a fully informed publ…
The Moral Sense in the Time of the Recluse
The circumstances of the pandemic, while inviting lessons from earlier reclusions, prompt reflection on what is lost when we are forced apart. The moral sense, as Darwin reminds us, is founded in communal bonds, the very things now brought into question. How then are values—and the dispositions that inform them—being challenged by a rhetoric of care
Self-deliberation and the Strategy of the Pseudo-dialogue
The New Rhetoric identifies the self-deliberator as one of three main types of audience. But such a turn toward the self is at odds with studies of contemporary argumentation, particularly social argumentation. Argumentation takes place “out there”, modifying the environments in which audiences operate. Equally interesting is the use of self-deliberation as a rhetorical strategy. Arguing with oneself, especially when that self is distanced in som…
Anthropology of Argument
This innovative text reinvigorates argumentation studies by exploring the experience of argument across cultures, introducing an anthropological perspective into the domains of rhetoric, communication, and philosophy. The Anthropology of Argument fills an important gap in contemporary argumentation theory by shifting the focus away from the purely propositional element of arguments and onto how they emerge from the experiences of peoples with div…
Place and Time in Argumentation
Retórica e interdisciplinaridade
Nesta entrevista, mergulhamos na carreira do Professor Christopher Tindale, desde os seus anos de doutorado, passando pelo seu trabalho na Universidade de Trent, até seu convite para se juntar ao Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR) da Universidade de Windsor, onde trabalha atualmente. Falamos sobre sua experiência no CRARR e da sua interação com outros importantes estudiosos da argumentação, bem como sobre o papel…
Rhetoric and interdisciplinarity
In this interview, we dive into Professor Christopher Tindale’s career, starting from his years as a doctoral student, passing through his work at the University of Trent until his invitation to join the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR) at the University of Windsor, where he presently works. We talk about his experience in CRARR and his interaction with other important argumentation scholars, as well as the rol…
Retórica e interdisciplinariedad
En esta entrevista, nos sumergimos en la carrera del profesor Christopher Tindale, empezando por sus años como estudiante de doctorado, pasando por su trabajo en la Universidad de Trent, hasta su invitación a unirse al Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (Centro de Investigación en Razonamiento, Argumentación y Retórica, CRRAR) de la Universidad de Windsor, donde trabaja actualmente. Hablamos de su experiencia en el CRRAR…
Mind the Gap
Discourses conceal as much as they reveal, but in their concealment they may invite an audience into the silences of the gaps and pauses they contain in order to reflect and find insight. The moments of opportunity provided by these gaps suggest two sides to the concept of kairos, capturing both the ability of the author/speaker to create the opportune moment in the discourse, and the ability of the reader/listener to see that moment and the expe…
How We Argue
Arguments and definitions (cults and presidents)
Arguing with Numbers
Part of the RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric, this volume brings together the insights of a diverse group of rhetorical scholars exploring the rhetorical dimensions of mathematics. There is no single perspective or approach on display as the reader is presented with studies of the rhetoric of mathematics as well as the use of rhetoric in mathematics and the rhetorical nature of mathematical language. These three prongs structure Edward Sc…
Place and Time in Argumentation
Utterer Meaning, Misunderstanding, and Cultural Knowledge
All versions of Grice's theory of utterer meaning couch success in terms of stressing the hearer's ability to recognize what is intended. This ties naturally to the cooperative principle and the maxims of conversation. A later additional maxim of manner emphasizes that one should always facility the audience's response in one's communication. Meaning communication is successful with the right "uptake", whether seen in the desires or beliefs that …
Christopher Tindale
The interview conducted with Christopher Tindale by Ruth Amossy in this special issue on “Challenging Rhetoric” proposes a survey of Tindale’s innovative work. Developing from Informal Logic to a theory of Rhetorical Argumentation, it eventually leads to an anthropological approach that challenges the Western rhetorical tradition. It assumes that ways of reasoning are culture-dependent and that arguments as reason-giving can take many forms beyon…
Philosophy (19 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · Rhetoric (11 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (11 works) · Argumentation theory (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works)