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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 Universit脿 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.
- Baumtrog, M. D. (2025). . Topoi, 1-10.
- Baumtrog, M. (2025). . Episteme, 22(2), 611-626.
- Baumtrog, M., De Brasi, L. and Fortes, G. (2024). . Frontline Learning Research, 12(2), 99鈥�112.
- Baumtrog, M. (2023). . Informal Logic, 43 (2), pp. 257-27.
- Baumtrog, M., Mejia, D. and Mota, H.R. (2022). Connecting argumentation in the Americas: past, present, future. Argumentation and Advocacy, 58 (3-4), pp. 196-213.
- Baumtrog, M. (2021). . Argumentation, 35 (4), pp. 629鈥�643.
- Baumtrog, M. (2021). Youth voting, rational competency, and epistemic injustice. Informal Logic, 41(1), pp. 41-55.
- Ahadi, S., Baumtrog, M., Martin, H. and Vahedi, Z. (2019). 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.
- Baumtrog, M. and Peach, H. (2019). They Can鈥檛 be Believed: Children, Intersectionality, and Epistemic Injustice. Journal of Global Ethics, 15 (3), pp. 213-232.
- Baumtrog, M. and S脿谩gua, J. (2018). Practical Rationality at Work - A New Argumentation Model. In: J. S脿谩gua, & A. Marques (Eds.), Essays on Value and Practical Rationality - Ethical and Aesthetical Dimensions (pp. 193-230). Bern: Peter Lang.
- Baumtrog, M. (2018) - 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.
- Baumtrog, M. (2018). . Reason and Rhetoric in the Time of Alternative Facts: Special Issue of Informal Logic, 28 (1).
- Baumtrog, M. (2018). Reasoning and Arguing, Dialectically and Dialogically, Among Individual and Multiple Participants. Argumentation, 32(1), pp.77-98.
- Baumtrog, M. (2017). . Informal Logic, 37(2), pp. 129-151.
- Baumtrog, M. (2016). , 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.