Leo Groarke
Leo Groarke | |
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8th President and Vice-Chancellor of Trent 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 |
Alma mater |
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Academic career | |
Discipline | philosophy |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Scepticism: A defense (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Tom Lennon |
Leo Groarke (born 1953) is a Canadian philosopher, known for his contributions to argumentation theory and informal 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 of Trent University from 2014-2024.[2]
He is the brother of philosophers Louis Groarke and Paul Groarke. The three are identical triplets.[3]
Education and career
[edit]Groarke studied at the University of Calgary, Simon Fraser University, the University of Helsinki, and the University of Western Ontario. He earned his PhD in philosophy in 1982 and was a professor of philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University, also holding several administrative positions. From 2010 to 2015 he served as the provost/vice-president academic at the University of Windsor.[1] From 2014-2024, he was the president of Trent University.[2]
Groarke's publications have concerned Ancient Greek philosophy, the history of ideas, and argumentation 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 of Argumentation and Advocacy on Visual Argumentation in 2007.[1] He is the author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry 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. with Christopher Tindale (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2008)
- Greek Scepticism: Anti-Realist Trends in Ancient Thought (Kingston, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990)