Andrew Aberdein: SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2013:

• Mathematical wit and mathematical cognition. Topics in cognitive science 5(2), 2013, forthcoming.

• The parallel structure of mathematical reasoning. In The argument of mathematics, Andrew Aberdein & Ian Dove, edd. (Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag, forthcoming).
  • Presented at AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012, University of Birmingham, July 2012.
  • Abridged version in Proceedings of the Symposium on Mathematical Practice and Cognition II: A symposium at the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012, Alison Pease and Brendan Larvor, edd. (Birmingham: Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 2012), pp. 7-14.

2012:

• The judo principle, philosophical method, and the logic of jokes. In Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Nicholas Joll, ed. (London: Palgrave, 2012), pp. 213-35.
  • Presented at 5th Annual Lighthearted Philosophers' Society Meeting, Treasure Island, FL, October, 2011.

• The dialectical tier of mathematical proof. In Argumentation: Cognition & community, Frank Zenker, ed. (Windsor, ON: OSSA, forthcoming).
  • Presented at 8th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, University of Windsor, May 2011.

2011:

• Interview with Stephen Read. The reasoner 5(12), 2011, pp. 205-211.
  • Reprinted in Insolubles and consequences: Essays in honour of Stephen Read, Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Ole Thomassen Hjortland, edd. (London: College Publications, 2012), pp. 1-10.

• Five theories of reasoning: Interconnections and applications to mathematics (with Alison Pease). Logic and logical philosophy 20(1-2), 2011, pp. 7-57.

2010:

• Antoine Arnauld; Argumentation theory; Chrysippus; Euler's diagrams; Gerolamo Saccheri; Novum Organum; Port Royal Logic; Practical Syllogism; Quantum logic; Rules of inference; Square of opposition; Syllogism; and William S. Jevons. In Key terms in logic, Jon Williamson & Federica Russo, edd. (London: Continuum, 2010).
  • Some of these items appeared in The reasoner 3(2), 2009, p. 13; 3(5), 2009, pp. 12-13; 3(8), 2009, p. 15; 4(1), 2010, pp. 12-13; 4(3), 2010, pp. 43-4.

• Strange bedfellows: The interpenetration of philosophy and pornography. In Porn: How to think with kink, Dave Monroe, ed. (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 22-34.
  • Presented at Lighthearted Philosophers' Society, St. Petersburg, FL, October 2009.
  • Published in French in La philosophie du porno, Dave Monroe, ed., Marc-Emmanuel Konigson, tr. (Champs-sur-Marne: Original, 2011).
  • Published in German as Seltsame Bettgenossen: Die Interpenetration von Philosophie und Pornographie in Philosophie für Verdorbene: Essays über Pornografie, Dave Monroe, ed., Heike Steffen, tr. (Berlin: Rogner & Bernhard, 2011), pp. 35-52.

• Rationale of the mathematical joke. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematical Practice and Cognition: A symposium at the AISB 2010 Convention, Alison Pease, Markus Guhe, and Alan Smaill, edd. (Leicester: Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 2010), pp. 1-6.
  • Presented at AISB 2010, De Montfort University, Leicester, March 2010 and Lighthearted Philosophers' Society, St. Petersburg, FL, October 2010.

• Argumentation schemes and communities of argumentational practice. In Argument cultures: Proceedings of OSSA 2009, Juho Ritola, ed. (Windsor, ON: OSSA, 2010).
  • Presented at Argument Cultures: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference, University of Windsor, June 2009.

• Observations on sick mathematics. In Philosophical perspectives on mathematical practice, Bart Van Kerkhove, Jonas De Vuyst, & Jean Paul Van Bendegem, edd. (London: College Publications, 2010), pp. 269-300.
  • Presented at Perspectives on Mathematical Practices, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, March 2007.

• Virtue in argument. Argumentation, 24(2), 2010, pp. 165-179.

2009:

• The philosophy of alternative logics (with Stephen Read). In Development of modern logic, L. Haaparanta, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 613-723.

• (As editor, with Ian J. Dove.) Mathematical argumentation. Special issue of Foundations of science, 14(1-2), 2009.

• Mathematics and argumentation. Foundations of science, 14(1-2), 2009, pp. 1-8.

2008:

• Logic for dogs. In What philosophy can tell you about your dog, Steven D. Hales, ed. (Chicago: Open Court, 2008), pp. 167-181.
  • Presented at the 2nd Annual Lighthearted Philosophers' Society Meeting, St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, FL, October, 2008.

• The Companions and Socrates: Is Inara a hetaera? In Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Joss Whedon's further worlds, Tanya Cochran & Rhonda Wilcox, edd. (London: I. B. Tauris, 2008), pp. 63-75.
  • Presented at SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, May 2006.

• Biology: Classification systems. In Scientific thought: In context, K. Lee Lerner & Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, edd. (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2008), Vol. 1, pp. 167-176.

2007:

• Fallacies in mathematics. Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, 27(3), pp. 1-6.
  • Presented at British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics Day Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, June 2007.

• Virtue argumentation. In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Frans H. van Eemeren, J. Anthony Blair, Charles A. Willard & Bart Garssen, edd. (Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2007), pp. 15-19.

• The informal logic of mathematical proof. In Perspectives on mathematical practices: Bringing together philosophy of mathematics, sociology of mathematics, and mathematics education, J. P. Van Bendegem & B. Van Kerkhove, edd. (Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag, 2007), pp. 135-51.
  
  • Reprinted in 18 Unconventional essays on the nature of mathematics, Reuben Hersh, ed, (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2006), pp. 56-70.
    
  • Originally presented at Perspectives on mathematical practices, Brussels University (VUB), October 2002.

2006:

• Raising the tone: Definition, bullshit, and the definition of bullshit. In Bullshit and Philosophy, George Reisch and Gary Hardcastle, edd. (Chicago: Open Court, 2006), pp. 151-69.
  
  • Partly based on Definition and persuasion, a paper presented at the 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Universidad de Oviedo, August 2003.

• Managing informal mathematical knowledge: Techniques from informal logic. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence 4108, 2006, pp. 208-221.
  
  • Presented at MKM 2006: The 5th International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management, St. Annes Manor, Wokingham, UK, August 2006.

• Proofs and rebuttals: Applying Stephen Toulmin's layout of arguments to mathematical proof. In Logica yearbook 2005, Marta Bilkova & Ondrej Tomala edd. (Prague: Filosofia, 2006), pp. 11-23.

• Induction, Mathematical. In Continuum Encyclopedia of British philosophy, A. C. Grayling, A. Pyle & N. Goulder, edd. (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006).

• Introduction to Euclid's The Elements: Books I-XIII. (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), pp. vii-xvii.

2005:

• The uses of argument in mathematics. Argumentation, 19(3), 2005, pp. 287-301.
  
  • Reprinted in Arguing on the Toulmin model: New essays in argument analysis and evaluation, D. Hitchcock & B. Verheij, edd. (Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag, 2007), pp. 327-39.
    
  • Presented at the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference, McMaster University, May 2005 and the 19th International Symposium LOGICA 2005, Hejnice Monastery, Czech Republic, June 2005.

2004:

• Entries for William Burnside, Alfred Bray Kempe and Thomas Penyngton Kirkman in The dictionary of nineteenth-century British scientists, B. Lightman, ed. (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2004).

2003:

• Review of John Ziman Real science: What it is, and what it means. Metapsychology, August 2003.

• Balderdash and chicanery: Science and beyond. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and philosophy: Fear and trembling in Sunnydale, James South, ed. (Chicago: Open Court, 2003).
  
  • Published in Portuguese as Palavrório e chicana: ciência e além in Buffy a Caça-Vampiros e a filosofia: Medos e calafrios em Sunnydale, James South, ed., Marcos Malvezzi Leal, tr. (São Paolo: Madras, 2004).

• Regional maps of HOPOS activity and infrastructure: Scotland. Newsletter of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) 7(2), 2003.

2001:

• Review of Douglas Walton One-sided arguments: A dialectical analysis of bias. Philosophy in review 21(2), April 2001.

• Classical recapture. In Prospettive della logica e della filosofia della scienza, V. Fano, G. Tarozzi, & M. Stanzione, edd. (Catanzaro: Rubettino, 2001).

• Post-classical logic? In Wittgenstein and the future of philosophy: A reassessment after 50 years, R. Haller & K. Puhl, edd. (Beiträge der Österreichischen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft 9(1), 2001).

1998:

• Persuasive definition. In Argumentation and rhetoric, H. V. Hansen, C. W. Tindale & A. V. Colman, edd. (Newport News, VA: Vale Press, 1998).