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Ralph H. Johnson is an American philosopher, born in Detroit, Michigan.〔1994 Logical Self-Defense, Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair. First U.S. Edition. New York: McGraw Hill. Pg. v〕 Johnson has been credited as one of the founding members of the informal logic movement in North America, along with J. Anthony Blair who co-published one of the movement's most influential texts, “Logical Self-Defense,” with Johnson.〔http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/CRRAR/main.nsf/SubCategoryFlyOut/178BBCA140BB501D85257299005D8BA5 Accessed January 21st 2010〕 As Johnson and Blair write in the preface to the newest edition of Logical Self-Defense on the influential nature of the text: "We might note that the theoretical perspective introduced in Logical Self-Defense has proved quite influential among textbook authors. It is to be found in modified form in A Practical Study of Argument by Trudy Govier, in Attacking Faulty Reasoning by T. Edward Damer, in Logic in Everyday Life and Open Minds and Everyday Reasoning by Zachary Seech, in Thinking Logically by James B. Freeman, and in Good Reasoning Matters by Leo Groarke and Christopher W. Tindale."〔Logical Self-Defense, Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair. 2006. New U.S. Edition. New York: IDEBATE Press. Preface xii〕 ==Education and work== He earned an Honors Bachelor of Arts at Xavier University and received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame〔1994 Logical Self-Defense, Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair. First U.S. Edition. New York: McGraw Hill. Pg. v〕 in 1972.〔http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/CRRAR/main.nsf/SubCategoryFlyOut/178BBCA140BB501D85257299005D8BA5 Accessed January 21, 2010〕 He has been a University Professor and University Professor emeritus〔http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/CRRAR/main.nsf/SubCategoryFlyOut/178BBCA140BB501D85257299005D8BA5〕 at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where he had taught since 1966.〔1994 Logical Self-Defense, Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair. First U.S. Edition. New York: McGraw Hill. Pg. v〕 He retired in Fall 2006 after 39 years, during which he served two terms as Head of Department.〔http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/CRRAR/main.nsf/SubCategoryFlyOut/178BBCA140BB501D85257299005D8BA5 Accessed January 21, 2010〕 Ralph H. Johnson was a co-founder of the Newsletter of Informal Logic which has since become the Journal of Informal Logic in 1985, he also served as its co-editor along with J. Anthony Blair since its inception.〔1994 Logical Self-Defense, Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair. First U.S. Edition. New York: McGraw Hill.〕 He has been a co-chair for the International Symposium on Informal Logic in Windsor in 1978, 1983, and 1989.〔1994 Logical Self-Defense, Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair. First U.S. Edition. New York: McGraw Hill. Pg. v〕 Ralph H. Johnson has lectured and published widely on informal logic, fallacy theory, argumentation, and critical thinking. He is a founding member and has been a previous member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT); as well as of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking (NCECT), and of the Canadian Research Group on Argumentation (Carga).〔1994 Logical Self-Defense, Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair. First U.S. Edition. New York: McGraw Hill. Pg. v〕 In 2004 he co-founded the Network for the Study of Reasoning, a cluster of Canadian experts researching the theory and its applications of reasoning and argument.〔http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/CRRAR/main.nsf/SubCategoryFlyOut/178BBCA140BB501D85257299005D8BA5 Accessed January, 21st, 2010〕 He has given workshop presentations and has been a consultant on informal logic and critical thinking across the United States and Canada.〔1994 Logical Self-Defense, Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair. First U.S. Edition. New York: McGraw Hill. Pg. v〕 According to the University of Windsor’s website, “His articles have appeared in such journals as American Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, Argumentation, Philosophy and Rhetoric and Informal Logic. In 1996, a collection of his articles and papers was published by Vale Press under the title The Rise of Informal Logic. In 2000, his book, Manifest Rationality: A Pragmatic Study of Argument, was published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Johnson has conducted seminars and workshops on informal logic and critical thinking across North America and in Europe. In 1993, Johnson received a 3M Teaching Fellowship for outstanding university teachers, one of ten such awards conferred that year in Canada. In 1994, he was awarded the rank of University Professor by the University of Windsor. In 2000, he was awarded the Distinguished Research Award by the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2005, he received the Career Achievement Award from the University of Windsor. Johnson is listed in Who’s Who in Canada.”〔http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/CRRAR/main.nsf/SubCategoryFlyOut/178BBCA140BB501D85257299005D8BA5〕 Currently, Johnson is working on a book about Dialectical Adequacy, which will be a follow up to his recently published work Manifest Rationality (2000).〔http://web4.uwindsor.ca/units/CRRAR/main.nsf/SubCategoryFlyOut/178BBCA140BB501D85257299005D8BA5〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ralph Johnson (philosopher)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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