Publications - President Leo Groarke

Letters from Doig

The letters, drawings, and photos in LETTERS FROM THE DOIG RIVER SCHOOL tell an immigrant’s story and is the first volume in a two-volume set of books featuring the writing of John and Charlotte Groarke. The book contains a collection of letters written by Charlotte Groarke to her family at home in Ireland from Doig River, B.C. between 1955 and 1958.

Reinventing Brantford

One hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada. During the century that followed, its industrial economy boomed, faltered, and finally collapsed. By the end of the twentieth century, Brantford was known for unemployment, hard luck, and the infamy of having "the worst downtown in Canada." For twenty years the downtown was in steep decline. Significant attempts at urban revival had failed until Wilfrid Laurier University decided to locate a campus in the heart of Brantford’s crumbling city centre.

Good Reasoning Matters

Now in its fifth edition, Good Reasoning Matters! is a practical guide to recognizing, evaluating, and constructing arguments. Combining straightforward instruction with abundant exercises and examples, this innovative introduction to argument schemes and rhetorical techniques will help students learn to think critically both within and beyond the classroom.

Selected Publications

2023 Leo Groarke. 希腊怀疑论：古代思想中的反实在论倾向／吴三喜译. Chinese translation of Greek Scepticism, by 吴三喜，Wu San Xi, ISBN 978-7-5130-8439-0.Intellectual Property Publishing House: Beijing, 2023.
2021 Leo Groarke, Christopher Tindale, Linda Carozza. Good Reasoning Matters! Revised 6th ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press
2021 “Logic, Informal.” Stanford World Wide Web Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu.
2020 “The End of Argument.” Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA 12) Evidence, Persuasion & Diversity: Proceedings of the 12th OSSA Conference. Windsor: OSSA Archive, https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA12/Thursday/28/
2019 “Depicting Visual Arguments: An “ART” Approach.” In Federico Puppo, ed. Informal Logic: A ‘Canadian’ Approach to Argument, pp. 332-374. Windsor: Windsor Studies in Argumentation (WSIA), Volume 9. https://windsor.scholarsportal.info/omp/index.php/wsia/catalog/view/123/303/1653-1
2019 “Matching Schemes of Argument: Verbal, Visual, Multimodal.” pp. 443-457. In Bart Garssen, David Godden, Gordon R. Mitchell, Jean H.M. Wagemans (Eds.) Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. Amsterdam: Sic Sat.
2019 “Auditory Arguments: The Logic of 'Sound' Arguments,” Informal Logic, 38:3, 312-340. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v38i3.4954
2018 Leo Groarke & Gabrijela Kišiček. “Sound Arguments: An Introduction To Auditory Argument,” pp. 177-198 In Oswald, S. & Maillat, D. (Eds.) Argumentation and Inference: Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation, Fribourg 2017. London: College Publications.
2017 “Editorial cartoons and ART: Arguing with Pinocchio.” In Tseronis, Assimakis & Charles Forceville, eds. Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in Media Genres. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
2017* Multimodality and the Law." In Maurizio Manzin, Federico Puppo & Serena Tomasi, eds. Multimodality and Reasonableness in Judicial Rhetoric. Studies on Argumentation & Legal Philosophy Vol 2. Quaderni Della Facolta Di Giurisprudenze Vol. 28 Trento: Universita degli Studi di Trento.
2010 Reinventing Brantford: A University Goes Downtown (Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, The Dundurn Group).
2009 Jan Sobocan and Leo Groarke, eds. Critical Thinking, Education and Assessment: How can we test higher order thinking? London, Ontario: The Althouse Press.
2007 David Birdsell & Leo Groarke, Guest Editors, Argumentation and Advocacy: The Journal of the American Forensic Association, Special Double Issue on Visual Argument, Vol. 43: Nos. 3&4 (Winter & Summer).
2006* Leo Groarke and Gary Warrick, “The Ethics of Stewardship,” in Chris Scarre and Geoffrey Scarre, eds. Ethics in the Field: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology (Cambridge University Press).
2005* “Teaching History: The Future of the Past,” in Peter Farrugia, ed. The River of History: Trans-National and Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives on the Immanence of the Past. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
2004 “Can Capitalism Save Itself? Some Ruminations on the End of Capitalism” In Tom Beauchamp and Norman Bowie, eds Ethical Theory and Business. 7th edition. New York: Prentice-Hall.
2003* Michael A. Gilbert, Floriana Grasso, Leo Groarke, Corrin Gurr, Janne M. Gerlofs, ‘The Persuasion Machine,’ in Chris Reed, Timothy J. Norman, Argumentation Machines: New Frontiers in Argument and Computation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers).
2003* “Are Musical Arguments Possible?” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Argumentation. Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 419-423.
1990 Greek Scepticism: Anti-Realist Trends in Ancient Thought. Kingston, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. (McGill-Queen's Series in the History of Ideas) 176pp.

Three wise men: Meet the Groarke brothers

All professors with PhDs in philosophy, the Groarke triplets share much more than their identical DNA.

http://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/three-wise-men-meet-the-groarke-brothers/