Christopher Tindale

Christopher William Tindale (born 1953) is a Canadian philosopher specializing in rhetoric, argumentation theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. Tindale is an editor of the journal Informal Logic, and currently serves as the chair of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric. He has published numerous books and articles, translated into several languages, with a focus on argumentation and rhetoric.

Career Tindale received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Waterloo. He worked as a professor at Trent University for over twenty years, and served as Chair of the department of Ancient History and Classics for part of that time. He has been a professor at the University of Windsor since 2006.

Select books Plato’s Reasons (SUNY, 2023) How We Argue (Routledge, 2022) The Anthropology of Argument: Cultural Foundations of Rhetoric and Reason (Routledge, 2021) Retórica y Teoría de la Argumentación Contemporáneas: Ensayos Escogidos de Christopher Tindale (Editorial EAFIT, 2017) The Philosophy of Argument and Audience Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2015) Grundkurs Informelle Logik: Begründen und Argumentieren im Alltag und in den Wissenschaften with Thomas Keutner (Translator) (Mentis Verlag GmbH, 2013) Good Reasoning Matters! Fifth Edition with Leo Groarke. (Oxford University Press Canada, 2013) Reason's Dark Champions: Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument (University of South Carolina Press, 2010) Fallacies and Argument Appraisal (Cambridge University Press, 2007) Rhetorical Argumentation (Sage, 2004) Acts of Arguing: A Rhetorical Model of Argumentation (SUNY, 1999)