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Sophistical refutations in the climate change debates.
February 19, 2019
Goodwin, Jean. (2019). Sophistical refutations in the climate change debates. Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:1, 40–64. https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.18008.goo A case study of a short televised debate between a climate scientist and an advocate for climate skepticism provides the basis for developing a contemporary conception of sophistry. The sophist has a high degree of argumentative content […]
Objecting to Models: A Typology of Non-experts’ Critiques of Models of Human-Natural Systems
December 1, 2016
Goodwin, Jean. (2016). Objecting to Models: A Typology of Non-experts’ Critiques of Models of Human-Natural Systems. In Jean Goodwin (Ed.), Confronting the Challenges of Public Participation: Issues in Environmental, Planning and Health Decision-Making (pp. 39-49). Charleston, SC: CreateSpace.
Conceptions of speech acts in the theory and practice of argumentation
April 20, 2014
Goodwin, Jean. (2014). Conceptions of speech acts in the theory and practice of argumentation: A case study of a debate about advocating. Studies in Logic, Grammar & Rhetoric, 36 (49), 79-98. Far from being of interest only to argumentation theorists, concep- tions of speech acts play an important role in practitioners’ self-reflection on their own activities. […]
Communication strategies for earning trust in climate change debates
December 3, 2013
Climate scientists need the trust of lay audiences if they are to share their knowledge. But significant audience segments—those doubtful or dismissive of climate change—distrust climate scientists.
Lippmann, the indispensable opposition
July 14, 2012
Lippmann's thoroughgoing pessimism may lead us to a better understanding of the role of communication in public deliberations between scientists and citizens.
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- Stop looking for specks of climate skepticism
- Should the existence of an “anti-vax” movement change what scientists can say in publications?
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- Responsibility for polar bear arguments
Jean Goodwin 
June 14, 2021
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