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Stephen Edelston Toulmin (born March 25, 1922) is a British philosopher and author. He was influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein at the University of Cambridge.

He is Professor at University of Southern California. He is known for seminal work in modeling arguments. He works towards a "return to reason", as opposed to the more scientistic modern "rationality".

Works

• An Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics (1953)
• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (1953)
• The Uses of Argument (1958)
• Metaphysical Beliefs, Three Essays (1957) with Ronald W. Hepburn and Alasdair MacIntyre
• The Riviera (1961)
• Foresight and Understanding: an Enquiry into the Aims of Science (1961)
• The Architecture of Matter (1962) with June Goodfield
• The Fabric of the Heavens: the Development of Astronomy and Dynamics (1963) with June Goodfield
• Night Sky at Rhodes (1963)
• The Discovery of Time (1966) with June Goodfield
• Physical Reality (1970)
• Human Understanding (1972)
• Wittgenstein’s Vienna (1972) with Allan Janik
• Knowing and Acting: An Invitation to Philosophy (1976)
• An Introduction to Reasoning (1979) with Allan Janik and Richard D. Rieke
• The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature (1985)
• The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning (1988) with Albert R. Jonsen
• Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity (1990)
• Social Impact of AIDS in the United States (1993) with Albert R. Jonsen
• Return to Reason (2001)

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