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Michael Baumtrog
Associate Professor
DepartmentLaw and Business
EducationPh.D, MA, BA (H)
Phone416-979-5000, ext. 544868
Overview
Michael Baumtrog is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Business at the Ted Rogers School of Management. He is also co-editor-in-chief of the journal Informal Logic. He completed his PhD in philosophy at NOVA University of Lisbon (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Portugal in 2015, while also completing the Argupolis II doctoral training program at Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano. His specializations are in reasoning and ethics, and he works to use both areas of study to make practical improvements in the real world.
Applied ethics, practical reasoning, critical thinking, social epistemology.
| Select Research and Professional Contributions |
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| 2025 – “Deep Agreements (external link, opens in new window) ”. Episteme, 22(2), 611-626. |
| 2024 – with Gabriel Fortes and Leandro De Brasi. Employing the intellectual virtues to better understand argumentation interventions in education (external link, opens in new window) . Frontline Learning Research, 12(2), 99–112. |
| 2023 – “The Basic Components of Agreement (external link, opens in new window) ”. Informal Logic. 43 (2), pp. 257-27. |
| 2022 – with Mejía, D., & Mota, H. R. “Connecting argumentation in the Americas: past, present, future.” Argumentation and Advocacy, 58 (3-4), pp. 196-213. |
| 2021 “Designing Critical Questions for Argumentation Schemes (external link, opens in new window) .” Argumentation. 35 (4), pp. 629–643. |
| 2021 - “Youth voting, rational competency, and epistemic injustice.” Informal Logic, 41(1), pp. 41-55. |
| 2019 - (with H. Martin, Z. Vahedi, and S. Ahadi). “Is There a Case for Gamification in Business Ethics Education? An Empirical Study”. Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, 19 (2), pp. 113-127 |
| 2019 - (with Harmony Peach) “They Can’t be Believed: Children, Intersectionality, and Epistemic Injustice.” Journal of Global Ethics, 15 (3), pp. 213-232. |
| 2018 - (with João Sàágua) “Practical Rationality at Work - A New Argumentation Model.” In: J. Sàágua, & A. Marques (Eds.), Essays on Value and Practical Rationality - Ethical and Aesthetical Dimensions (pp. 193-230). Bern: Peter Lang. |
| 2018 - “Navigating a Necessary Inequality: Children and Knowledge-Based Injustice (external link, opens in new window) ” in Social Inequality and the Spectre of Social Justice. C. Fanelli, G. Potter, J. Noonan & J. Essex (Eds.), Alternative Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research Vol 29, pp. 294-306. |
| 2018 - “Editor’s Introduction (external link, opens in new window) .” Reason and Rhetoric in the Time of Alternative Facts: Special Issue of Informal Logic, 28 (1). |
| 2018 – “Reasoning and Arguing, Dialectically and Dialogically, Among Individual and Multiple Participants.” Argumentation, 32(1), pp.77-98. |
| 2017 - "Others and Imagination in Reasoning and Argumentation: Improving our Critical Creative Capacity (external link, opens in new window) .” Informal Logic, 37(2), pp. 129-151. |
| 2016 – “The Willingness to be Rationally Persuaded (external link, opens in new window) ,” in P. Bondy and L. Benacquista (Eds). Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 18-21 May 2016. Windsor, Ontario. |