Leo Groarke
Leo Groarke | |
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8th President and Vice-Chancellor ofTrent University | |
In office July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2024 | |
Chancellor | Don Tapscott Stephen Stohn |
Preceded by | Steven E. Franklin |
Succeeded by | Cathy Bruce |
Personal details | |
Born | 1953 |
Relatives | Louis Groarke(brother) |
Occupation | Professor,university administrator |
Known for | Argumentation theory,informal logic |
Academic background | |
Alma mater |
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Thesis | Scepticism: A defense(1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Tom Lennon |
Academic work | |
Discipline | philosophy |
Institutions | |
Leo Groarke(born 1953) is a Canadian philosopher, known for his contributions toargumentation theoryandinformal logic.
Groarke has authored and edited a number of books, articles, and anthologies.[1]Groarke has held numerous administrative positions at various Canadian universities, and served as the President ofTrent Universityfrom 2014-2024.[2]
He is the brother of philosophersLouis Groarkeand Paul Groarke. The three are identical triplets.[3]
Education and career
[edit]Groarke studied at theUniversity of Calgary,Simon Fraser University,theUniversity of Helsinki,and theUniversity of Western Ontario.He earned his PhD in philosophy in 1982 and was a professor of philosophy atWilfrid Laurier University,also holding several administrative positions. From 2010 to 2015 he served as the provost/vice-president academic at theUniversity of Windsor.[1]From 2014-2024, he was the president ofTrent University.[2]
Groarke's publications have concernedAncient Greek philosophy,the history of ideas,andargumentation theory.He has published several papers on the possibility of arguments in non-linguistic modes, such as visual and musical arguments. With David Birdsell, he edited a special edition ofArgumentation and Advocacyon Visual Argumentation in 2007.[1]He is the author of theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophyentry for Informal Logic, and also wrote the 2008 edition of the Stanford Encyclopedia entry for Ancient Skepticism.[4][5]
Selected works
[edit]- Good Reasoning Matters! Revised 4th Ed.withChristopher Tindale(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2008)
- Greek Scepticism: Anti-Realist Trends in Ancient Thought(Kingston, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990)