Douglas Walton

11.3k citations
242 papers · 5.1k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 33

Impact in

  • Philosophy top 0.1%
    • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
    • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
    • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
    • Semantic Web and Ontologies

Papers in

    • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation 129
    • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge 79
    • Semantic Web and Ontologies 47
    • Natural Language Processing Techniques 14
    • Topic Modeling 12
    • Classical Philosophy and Thought 13

Douglas Walton

222 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Argumentation Schemes 2008 · 692 citations
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Douglas Walton
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  • Philosophy 1.0k
  • Artificial Intelligence 2.4k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 717
  • Language and Linguistics 518
  • Literature and Literary Theory 439
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20195
2 20180
3 201827
4 201713
5 201619
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Epistemic and Deontic Authority in the Argumentum Ad Verecundiam
20160
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A Pragmatic Model of Legal Disputation
20140
8
Value-Based Practical Reasoning
20131
9
Teleological Justification of Argumentation Schemes
20131
10
Character Attacks as Complex Strategies of Legal Argumentation
20122
11
HOW TO REFUTE AN ARGUMENT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
20116
12
Classification and Ambiguity: The Role of Definition in a Conceptual System
20112
13
Burden of Proof in a Modified Hamblin Dialogue System
20111
14
CLASSIFICATION AND AMBIGUITY: THE ROLE OF DEFINITION IN A CONCEPTUAL SYSTEM
20093
15
Enthymemes, Argumentation Schemes, and Topics
20093
16 20087
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Character Evidence: An Abductive Theory (Argumentation Library)
20061
18
Practical Reasoning and the Structure of Fear Appeal Arguments
199622
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Critique de l'argumentation : logiques des sophismes ordinaires
19923
20
Are Circular Arguments Necessarily Vicious
198513

About Douglas Walton

Douglas Walton is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Law, Political Science and International Relations and General Decision Sciences, having authored 242 papers that have together received 5.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation (129 papers), Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (79 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (47 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Law (39 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (15 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (14 papers), Classical Philosophy and Thought (13 papers) and Topic Modeling (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Philosophy (1.0k citations), Artificial Intelligence (2.4k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (717 citations), Language and Linguistics (518 citations) and Literature and Literary Theory (439 citations). Douglas Walton has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, Portugal and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Fabrizio Macagno, Christopher A. Reed, Chris Reed, Thomas F. Gordon, Giovanni Sartor, Floris Bex, John Woods, Chrysi Rapanta, Evan Simpson and Andrew David Irvine. Their work appears in journals such as Informal Logic, Argumentation, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Philosophy and Rhetoric and Noûs.

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