Organizing Committee:

Hans V. Hansen
Christopher W. Tindale
J. Anthony Blair
Ralph H. Johnson

Programme Committee:

DEREK ALLEN, University of Toronto
J. ANTHONY BLAIR, University of Windsor
DANIEL H. COHEN, Colby College
DAVID M. GODDEN, University of Windsor
JEAN GOODWIN, Iowa State University
HANS V. HANSEN, University of Windsor
RALPH H. JOHNSON, University of Windsor
CHRISTOPHER W. TINDALE, University of Windsor

The Society is grateful to the following for their generous support:

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
The Vice-President, Academic, University of Windsor
The Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Windsor
The Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR) , University of Windsor
The Network for the Study of Reasoning (NSR), Canada
The Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor
Dr. John Hoaglund and Vale Press
Dr. Stephen Pender, University of Windsor
Sic Sat: International Centre for the Study of Argumentation
Informal Logic

OSSA Student-Essay Prize

This conference sees the fourth competition for the J. Anthony Blair Prize, an award given by OSSA to an outstanding paper by a graduate student whose paper was accepted for the conference. The award was presented at the banquet, Saturday, June 9. We wish to acknowledge and thank the scholars who advised the Organizing Committee in the competition for the OSSA Prize:

CHARLES BLATZ, University of Toledo
ROBERT ENNIS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
JOHN FIELDS, Edgewood College
MICHAEL HOFFMAN, Georgia Institute of Technology
BETH MANOLESCU, University of Kansas
HARVEY SIEGEL, University of Miami
KENNETH OLSON, Law School Admission Council

Additional Acknowledgements

Mark Battersby, Photography
Tory James, Photography
Jacob Machina, Technical Assistant
Robert Pinto, Photography
Maryam Yousif, Photography