Ralph Johnson
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Philosophy
#694
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#1346
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#312
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Analytic Philosophy
#15
World Rank
#20
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#8
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Logic
#147
World Rank
#338
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#66
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Why Is Ralph Johnson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ralph Henry Johnson is a Canadian American philosopher, born in Detroit, Michigan. Johnson has been credited as one of the founding members of the informal logic movement in North America, along with J. Anthony Blair who co-published one of the movement's most influential texts, Logical Self-Defense, with Johnson. Alongside its founder, Blair, Johnson co-directed the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric at the University of Windsor. As Johnson and Blair write in the preface to the newest edition of Logical Self-Defense on the influential nature of the text: