Leo Groarke

Leo Groarke
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	University of Calgary(BA, MA) University of Western Ontario(PhD)
Thesis	Scepticism: A defense(1982)
Doctoral advisor	Tom Lennon
Academic work
Discipline	philosophy
Institutions	Wilfrid Laurier University University of Windsor Trent University

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.Groarke has held numerous administrative positions at various Canadian universities, and served as the President ofTrent Universityfrom 2014-2024.

He is the brother of philosophersLouis Groarkeand Paul Groarke. The three are identical triplets.

Education and career

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.From 2014-2024, he was the president ofTrent University.

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.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.

Selected works

• 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)