In Memoriam: Joseph W. Wenzel 1933-2021

An obituary of emeritus professor Joseph W. Wenzel who died on Dec 30, 2021 is presented. He was pivotal in the internationalization of the U.S. argumentation community, by encouraging the work of Frans van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst in Argumentation and Advocacy and at the Alta meetings, and by b...

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Published in:Informal logic 2022-03, Vol.42 (1), p.359-361
Main Author: Hample, Dale
Format: Article
Language:English
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Wenzel, Joseph W
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Summary:An obituary of emeritus professor Joseph W. Wenzel who died on Dec 30, 2021 is presented. He was pivotal in the internationalization of the U.S. argumentation community, by encouraging the work of Frans van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst in Argumentation and Advocacy and at the Alta meetings, and by being one of the first U.S. scholars to take a role in the meetings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. His career was honored by the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, and he was a keynote speaker at several conferences in North America and Europe. Perhaps his most remarkable scholarly contribution was his recognition that arguments can usefully be seen from three different perspectives: as rhetorical, as logical, and as dialectical. His idea that scholars should try to see argument, the one thing, in three different ways offered a comfortable way to reconcile what seemed to be radically different interests in the argumentation community.
ISSN:0824-2577
2293-734X
DOI:10.22329/il.v42i1.7227