Introduction: Reasoning for change

Abstract

This special issue of Informal Logic brings together two important areas of philosophy that have shown significant development in the last three decades: informal logic and feminist philosophy. A significant innovation they both share is new thinking about practices of argumentation and related practices of reasoning. Feminist theorizing sup-porting social and political change foregrounds "reasoning for change" in a way that draws attention to the contextual and rhetorical dimensions of argument, and thus connects with significant developments in informal logic. © Phyllis Rooney and Catherine E. Hundleby.