Papers, correspondence, manuscripts of the prolific, cross-disciplinary scholar, philosopher, historian of science, and USC University Professor, Stephen E. Toulmin.

Stephen Edelston Toulmin was an English philosopher and educator whose career spanned nearly six decades. Toulmin's research focused on moral reasoning analyses, and developed a new approach to analyzing arguments known as the Toulmin Model of Argumentation. A foremost authority on international relations, history and philosophy of the physical and social sciences, ethics, and the history of ideas, his research has widely influenced many fields, particularly clinical medical ethics, rhetoric, communication and computer science.

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