J. Anthony Blair

John Anthony Blair (born 12 August 1941) is a Canadian philosopher, born in Ottawa, Ontario.[1] Along with his colleague Ralph Johnson, he has been credited as one of the founding members of the informal logic movement in North America. The two co-published one of the movement's most influential texts, "Logical Self-Defense". Blair is also co-founder of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric, co-founder of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), and a founding board member of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA).[2][3]

J. Anthony Blair
Born1941 (age 78–79)
Ottawa, Ontario
OccupationProfessor
Known forOne of the founding members of the informal logic movement in North America

Career

Blair studied at the University of Michigan and McGill University. He taught philosophy at the University of Windsor from 1967 until 2006, serving two terms as the head of that department.[3] He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Windsor.[4]

Blair's publications have focused on argumentation theory, critical thinking, informal logic, and visual argumentation.

Selected works
  • Logical Self Defense (New U.S. Edition, IDEBATE, 2006)
  • Groundwork in the Theory of Argumentation: Selected Papers of J. Anthony Blair (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012)
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gollark: For example, send a request to `https://interweb.site/search-some-private-data?query=thing` using a form or `img` or `script` or whatever, and see how long it takes (using `onload`/`onerror` handlers and such).
gollark: The timing attacks thing: since you can send GET requests to domains you probably shouldn't be able to, and time how long they take, you can infer some data you shouldn't be able to from other domains.
gollark: It is not okay, it is bees.
gollark: Because you can access cross-domain scripts and images without explicit optin by the site they're from, guess what? TIMING ATTACKS, *and* you can check whether there's an image or not at some arbitrary URL because while CORS weirdness won't let your code read the *content* of an image you include with `<img>` unless the site it's from opts in, you can check the width/height and whether it loaded or not.

References
  1. 2006 Logical Self-Defense, Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair. New York: IDEA. Pg. vii
  2. "Windsor Daily News, March 14, 2007".
  3. "CRRAR at UWindsor". Archived from the original on 2017-10-25. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  4. "UWindsor Philosophy Faculty".
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