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Born March 25 1922
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Stephen Edelston Toulmin earns his PhD in ethics from Cambridge University.
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Appointed University Lecturer at Oxford University
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Appointed University Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at Oxford University
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Stephen Toulmin publishes his dissertation and first publication "An Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics" this would begin a long list of publications. This first publication centers around the question of what makes a "good reason" to do something. The attempt is to clarify the kind of logic that goes into moral reasoning.
Toulmin, Stephen. An Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics. Cambridge U.P., 1968. -
Appointed Visiting Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Melbourne University in Australia.
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Appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Leeds
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Stephen Toulmin publishes "The Uses of Argument". A key and one of the influential books he will have ever published. The book itself breaks down thoughts on absolutism and puts forth the Toulmin model of Argument. The Toulmin model puts forth a practical argument outline with a layout containing six parts to analyze arguments. The claim, otherwise easily stated as the thesis or the point being made. Toulmin, Stephen Edelston. The Uses of Argument. Cambridge University Press, 1958
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Publishing three books with his second wife, The Fabric of the Heavens (1961), The Architecture of Matter (1962) and The discovery of Time (1965). Three volumes of "The Ancestry of Science" which aimed to put us in the minds of what the world would have been experienced like in our ancestor's minds.
Toulmin, Stephen, and June Goodfield. The Fabric of the Heavens: the Development of Astronomy and Dynamics. Harper & Brohers, 1961. -
Stephen Toulmin publishes "Human Understanding" where he attempts to replace Thomas Khun's revolutionary science or paradigm shifts. Instead of siding with relativists, Toulmin proposes a new version of Thomas Khun's version.
Toulmin, Stephen. Human Understanding. Princeton University Press, 1972. -
Stephen Toulmin publishes Cosmopolis. The primary point of which is to further prove his point that the history of philosophy is concentrated too much on formal argumentation instead of focusing on humanism.
Toulmin, Stephen Edelston. Cosmopolis: the Hidden Agenda of Modernity. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990. -
Stephen Toulmin publishes Return to Reason continuing along the same lines as Cosmopolis, further disagreeing with modern philosophy and stating that "From now on permanent validity must be set aside as illusory, and our ideas of rationality related to specific functions of the human reason."
Toulhmin, Stephen. Return to Reason. Harvard University Press, 2001 -
Toulmin receives the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
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Dies Dec 4 2009
