This session covers the philosophy of analytic reasoning and collective discourse along with the role and use of public forums in the modern era.

Participants

Facilitators: Rebecca Farinas, Texas State Department of Philosophy; Nick Williams, KTSW Guests: Ann Burnette and Rebekah Fox, Department of Communication Studies; Daniel Carter, School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Ivan Marquez, Department of Philosophy All: Texas State University

References

Aristotle, Rhetoric. 
Kenneth Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1969. 
John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, Swallow Press, Ohio University Press, 1954.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty at Project Gutenberg, derived from an edition by Walter Scott Publishing with an introduction by W. L. Courtney.

George A. Reisch, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.