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- David Godden
- Assistant Professor
- Philosophy & Religious Studies
- 9013 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-5997
- dgodden@odu.edu
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- David M. Godden (Ph.D. McMaster University, 2004) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University, with
research interests in epistemology, the theory of rationality, reasoning and argument and 20th century analytic philosophy.
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Education
- McMaster University,
2004
- Major: Philosophy
- Degree: Ph. D.
- York University,
1997
- Major: Philosophy
- Degree: M.A.
- Wilfrid Laurier University,
1995
- Major: Philosophy
- Degree: B.A.
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Research Interests
- Areas of Specialty: Epistemology; History and Philosophy of Logic; Theory of Reasoning and Argument;
Areas of Competence: History of Modern and Analytic Philosophy; Logic (formal and informal);
Metaphysics; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind
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Book Chapters
- Godden, D. Informal logic and the dialectical approach to argument. (pp. 3-17). Newport News, VA: Reason Reclaimed, Vale Press.
- Walton, and Godden, D. (2008). Rescher on dialogue systems, argumentation and burden of proof in Rescher Studies: A Collection of Essays on the Philosophical
Work or Nicholas Rescher, Reading Rescher (vol.2). (pp. pp. 401-427). Frankfurt: Verlag Ontos.
- Walton, and Godden, D. (2007). Informal logic and the dialectical approach to argument in Reason Reclaimed. (pp. pp. 3-17). Newport News, VA: Vale Press.
- Walton, and Godden, D. (2006). The impact of argumentation on artificial intelligence in 'Considering Pragma-Dialectics'. (pp. pp. 287-299). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Articles
- Godden, D., and Griffin Psychologism and the development of Russell’s account of propositions. History and Philosophy of Logic
- Godden, D. The importance of belief in argumentation: Belief, commitment and the effective resolution of a difference of opinion. Synthese
- Godden, D., and Griffin (2009). Psychologism and the development of Russell’s account of propositions. History and Philosophy of Logic, 30 (2), (pp. 171-186).
- Godden, D., and Walton (2008). Defeasibility in judicial opinion: logical or procedural?. Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice, 28 (1), (pp. pp. 5-15).
- Godden, D. (2008). On common knowledge and ad populum: Acceptance as grounds for acceptability. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 41 (2), (pp. pp. 101-129).
- Godden, D., and Walton (2007). A theory of presumption for everyday argumentation. Pragmatics & Cognition, 15 (2), (pp. pp. 313-346).
- Godden, D., and Walton (2007). Advances in the theory of argumentation schemes and critical questions. Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice, 27 (3), (pp. pp. 267-292).
- Godden, D. (2007). Informal Logic Special Issue on Douglas Walton. Editor’s Introduction. A bibliography of Douglas Walton’s published works,
1971-2007. Informal Logic, 27 (1), (pp. pp. 1-4, pp. 135-147).
- Godden, D., and Walton (2006). Argument from expert opinion as legal evidence: Critical questions and admissibility criteria of expert testimony in the American
legal system. Ratio Juris, 19 (3), (pp. pp. 261-286).
- Godden, D. (2006). Departmental boundaries within the corporate body of theory: Quine on the holistic foundations of logic. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 45 (3), (pp. pp. 505-528).
- Godden, D. (2005). Deductivism as an interpretative strategy: A reply to Groarke’s defense of reconstructive deductivism. Argumentation and Advocacy: Journal of the American Forensic Association, 41 (3), (pp. pp. 168-183).
- Godden, D., and Walton (2005). Persuasion dialogue in online dispute resolution. Artificial Intelligence and Law, 13 (2), (pp. pp. 273-295).
- Godden, D. (2005). Psychologism in the logic of John Stuart Mill: Mill on the subject matter and foundations of ratiocinative logic. History and Philosophy of Logic, 26 (2), (pp. pp. 115-143).
- Godden, D., and Walton (2004). Denying the antecedent as a legitimate argumentative strategy: A dialectical model. Informal Logic, 24 (3), (pp. pp. 219-243).
- Godden, D. (2003). Arguing at cross-purposes: Discharging the dialectical obligations of the coalescent model of argumentation. Argumentation: An International Journal on Reasoning, 17 (2), (pp. pp. 219-243).
- Godden, D. (1999). The problems of individuality and incommensurability in Raz’s The Morality of Freedom. De Philosophia/ GRADUATE STUDENT JOURNAL, 15 (2), (pp. pp. 33-50).
- Godden, D. (1998). Language and acquisition in Chomskian theory. Discourse/ GRADUATE STUDENT JOURNAL, 4, (pp. pp. 52-64).
- Godden, D. (1996). Nehamas’ Life as Literature: A case for the defence. Kinesis/ GRADUATE STUDENT JOURNAL, 23 (2), (pp. pp. 29-46).
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Presentations
- Corroborative Evidence
- Conference Name: Wake Forest University
- Sponsoring Organization: Wake Forest University
- Location: Winston-Salem, NC
- Date: March 19, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Corroborative Evidence
- Conference Name: Old Dominion University
- Sponsoring Organization: Old Dominion University
- Location: Norfolk, Virginia
- Date: February 16, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- The epistemic utility of Toulmin’s argument fields
- Conference Name:
- Location: Windsor, ON
- Date: June 3, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Revisiting Frege’s epistemology: Frege on the nature of proof and justification
- Conference Name: Bertrand Russell Society/History of Early Analytic Philosophy
- Sponsoring Organization: Bertrand Russell Society/History of Early Analytic Philosophy
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Date: December 28, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Rethinking the debriefing paradigm: Bounded rationality and normative explanations of belief perseverance
- Conference Name: Canadian Philosophical Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Canadian Philosophical Association
- Location: Vancouver, BC
- Date: June 5, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Redefining knowledge in a way suitable for argumentation: Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground
- Conference Name:
- Location: Windsor, ON
- Date: 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
Walton
- On the utility of fields as evaluative categories of argument
- Conference Name:
- Location: Alta, Utah
- Date: August 5, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- The importance of belief in argumentation: Belief, commitment and the effective resolution of a difference of opinion
- Conference Name: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
- Sponsoring Organization: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
- Date: June 9, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Alternatives to suspicion and trust as conditions for challenge in argumentative dialogue in P. Riley (ed.), Engaging Argument:
Selected Papers from the 2005 NCA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation, pp. 438-444
- Conference Name: National Communication Association
- Sponsoring Organization: National Communication Association
- Location: Washington DC
- Date: 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Walton
Godden, D.
- Writing Successful Research Grant Proposals, (2 ½ hrs; invited)
- Conference Name: Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor
- Sponsoring Organization: Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor
- Location: Windsor, Ontario
- Date: October, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Stimulating Effective Discussion (1 ½ hrs; invited)
- Conference Name: Centre for Leadership in Learning, McMaster University
- Sponsoring Organization: Centre for Leadership in Learning, McMaster University
- Location: Hamilton, Ontario
- Date: September, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- The adequacy of foundationalism and coherence as regulative models of belief change
- Conference Name:
- Location: Amsterdam
- Date: June 30, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Theory of logic in the 19th century: Whately, Mill, Boole, Bolzano, and Frege on the nature and subject matter of logic
- Conference Name: Simon Fraser University
- Sponsoring Organization: Simon Fraser University
- Date: March 17, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- On common knowledge and ad populum
- Conference Name: University of Windsor
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Windsor
- Date: February 22, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Frege on the nature of philosophy
- Conference Name: University of Windsor
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Windsor
- Date: February 16, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- The nature and status of critical questions in argumentation schemes in D. Hitchcock (ed.), The Uses of Argument: Proceedings
of a conference at McMaster University, pp. 476-484
- Sponsoring Organization: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
- Location: Hamilton, ON
- Date: 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Walton
Godden, D.
- Can we change our minds about everything? Quine on the revisability of belief
- Conference Name: University of Winnipeg
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Winnipeg
- Date: January 26, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Psychologism and the development of Russell’s theory of propositions
- Conference Name: American Philosophical Association
- Sponsoring Organization: American Philosophical Association
- Location: Boston, MA
- Date: December 28, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Griffin
Godden, D.
- On Toulmin's fields and Wittgenstein's later views on logic,’ in F.H. van Eemeren, J.A. Blair, C.A. Willard and A.F. Snoeck
Henkemans (eds.) Amsterdam: Sic Sat, pp. 368-375
- Conference Name:
- Location: Amsterdam
- Date: 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Reconstruction and representation: Deductivism as an interpretative strategy,’ in J.A Blair, D. Farr, H.V. Hansen, R.H. Johnson
and C.W. Tindale (eds.), Informal Logic @ 25
- Conference Name: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
- Sponsoring Organization: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
- Location: Windsor, ON
- Date: 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Grading Student Papers (1 ½ hrs; invited)
- Conference Name: Centre for Leadership in Learning, McMaster University
- Sponsoring Organization: Centre for Leadership in Learning, McMaster University
- Location: Hamilton, Ontario
- Date: September, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- The First Tutorial (1 ½ hrs; invited)
- Conference Name: Centre for Leadership in Learning, McMaster University
- Sponsoring Organization: Centre for Leadership in Learning, McMaster University
- Location: Hamilton, Ontario
- Date: September, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- On the relation of argumentation and inference, in H.V. Hansen, C.W. Tindale, J.A. Blair, R.H. Johnson and R.C. Pinto (eds.)
- Conference Name: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
- Sponsoring Organization: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
- Location: Windsor, ON
- Date: 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Dealing with Academic Dishonesty in Your Classroom, (2 hrs; invited)
- Conference Name: Centre for Leadership in Learning, McMaster University
- Sponsoring Organization: Centre for Leadership in Learning, McMaster University
- Location: Hamilton, Ontario
- Date: November 1, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Psychologism in contemporary argumentation theory, in Hans V. Hansen, Christopher W. Tindale, and Elmar Sveda (eds.)
- Conference Name: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
- Sponsoring Organization: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
- Location: St. Catherines, ON
- Date: 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Reference, reduction and mental discourse
- Sponsoring Organization: Ontario Philosophical Society
- Location: McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
- Date: October, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Commentary on Jose Plug: Indicators of obiter dicta, in Hans V. Hansen, Christopher W. Tindale, Athena V. Colman (eds.)
- Conference Name: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
- Sponsoring Organization: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
- Location: St. Catherines, ON
- Date: 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Godden, D.
- Essay Award, Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
- SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Institutionally awarded) /annum
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
- Albert Shalom Travel Scholarship, McMaster
- James F. Harvey & Helen S. Harvey Travel Scholarship , McMaster
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- McMaster Graduate Scholarship
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research