Stephen Toulmin

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  • Born

    Stephen Toulmin was born in London, England

  • Publishes "Reason in Ethics"

    Publishes "Reason in Ethics"
    Stephen Toulmin challenges ideas of ethics and morals in his work "Reason in Ethics." Toulmin challenges common ideas and conceptions, putting other philosophers on the stage by questioning ethical reasoning (Smith, George "Reason and Ethics," Libertarianism August 26, 2016)

  • Publishes "The Uses of Argument"

    Publishes "The Uses of Argument"
    Toulmin challenges the idea of argument and rational justifications in his book "The Uses of Argument." Here he offers a flow of which an argument should be considered and evaluated using warrant, backing, and rebuttal techniques to cast better judgment on problems at hand
    (https://philpapers.org/rec/TOUTUO-2)

  • Publishes "Human Understanding"

    Publishes "Human Understanding"
    Stephen Toulmin publishes "Human Understanding," a challenge of Thomas Kuhn's ideas on conceptual change, arguing that changes in ways of thinking are an evolutionary process (Richard S. Westfall The Journal of Modern History Vol. 47, No. 4 (Dec., 1975), pp. 691-698)

  • Publishes "Cosmopolis"

    Publishes "Cosmopolis"
    Stephen Toulmin challenges the idea of certainty and human modernization (Skinner, Quinten "The Past in the Present," The New York Review of Books 1990 issue)

  • Died

    Stephen Toulmin died, aged 87 in Los Angeles, California