By: Emily Donnan

 Born March 25, 1922 in London, England  B.A. in mathematics and physics at King’s College (1942)  Officer for the Ministry of Aircraft production in WWII  PhD in ethics from Cambridge University (1948)

 Ludwig Wittgenstein- relationship between meanings and uses of language  Had a large influence on Toulmin’s work  Appointed university lecturer in philosophy at Oxford University  Wrote The Philosophy of Science: an Introduction (1952)

 served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Leeds  Published The Uses of Argument (1958)

The Uses of Argument  Ridiculed by professors in England as “Toulmin’s anti-logic book”  1959: returned to U.S.  Book praised by American rhetoricians  Toulmin Model of Argumentation; most influential work- esp. in rhetoric and communication

 professorships at Columbia, Dartmouth, Michigan State, Northwestern, Stanford and the University of Chicago  director of the Unit for the History of Ideas of the Nuffield Foundation (London)  Returned to U.S. in 1965

 became professor of history of ideas and philosophy at Brandeis University  University of California, Santa Cruz, Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts  professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago

 Currently- Henry R. Luce Professor at the Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies at the University of Southern California School of International Relations

 Philosophy of Science (1953)  The Uses of Argument (1958)  Foresight and Understanding(1960)  The Discovery of Time (1965)  Physical Reality: Philosophical Essays on 20th Century Physics (1970)  Wittgenstein’s Vienna (co-authored with Alan Janik) (1973)  Knowing and Acting (1976)  Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity (1990)  The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning (co-authored with Albert R. Jonsen) (1990)  Return to Reason (2001).

 1. Where was Toulmin born? London  2. True or False: Philosophers around the world praised Toulmin for his model on argumentation. False  3. What University is Toulmin working in today? University of Southern California