Douglas Walton is Distinguished Research Fellow of CRRAR (Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric) at the University of Windsor. He has been producing widely known research on argumentation and informal logic since 1980, and has gone on to win numerous research grants, becoming the world’s best known and read scholar in the field of argumentation. Over his career he has collaborated with hundreds of colleagues, most recently in artificial intelligence and multiagent systems. He has authored or co-authored 50+ books, and 400+ refereed journal articles and papers published in conference proceedings. His work is interdisciplinary in style and is regarded by those in his profession as ground-breaking and seminal.
    Dr. Walton’s philosophical insights have led to new models for analyzing conversation, new methods for improving classroom discourse and medical interviews, innovative approaches to legal argumentation and formalizations of statutory interpretations, and new algorithms for modeling human-machine interactions. His Google Citation Index currently stands at over 22,000 citations. Walton’s interdisciplinary range, and the degree of fresh insight he brings to collaborations make him sought out by academics in fields of study from Canada and abroad. He has been invited to take part in international collaborative research projects in institutions such as The Leibniz Center for Informatics at Schloss Dagstuhl, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, the National Institute for Informatics in Tokyo, the Institute of Logic and Cognition in Guangzhow, China, and the European University Institute (Law) in Florence, Italy.

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