# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-n-walton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:01:12.200Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-n-walton"
name: "Douglas N. Walton"
slug: "douglas-n-walton"
description: "Douglas Neil Walton was a Canadian academic and author, known for his books and papers on argumentation, logical fallacies and informal logic. He was a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric (CRRAR) at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and before that (2008–2014), he held the Assumption Chair of Argumentation Studies at the University of Windsor. Walton's work has been used to better prepare legal arguments and to help develop artificial intelligence."
tagline: "Canadian academic (1942–2020)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1942-06-02"
deathDate: "2020-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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    title: "Уолтон, Дуглас Нил"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump