Defeating Arguments: A Primer on Argument Defeasibility

by Michael Sudduth

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50 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2007

About the author

Michael Sudduth (D.Phil., M.Phil., University of Oxford) is a philosophy professor at San Francisco State University, where he's taught philosophy and religion since 2005.

Although specializing in the philosophy of religion, his interests range broadly over epistemology, philosophy of science, the psychology of religious experience, eastern philosophy and spirituality, life after death, and philosophy in literature and film.

Michael's interests also include the field of psychology, especially cognitive, personality, and abnormal psychology. This interest evolved out of his earlier exploration of eastern spiritual practices and western therapeutic modalities.

Growing up on the works of Edgar Allan Poe and 1970s horror films, Michael has had a life-long fascination with the darker side of human nature. In 2015, Stephen King inspired his turn towards dark fiction literature.

Michael's first novel Sylvia’s Shadow is undergoing beta reader and editorial evaluation. The story revolves around the apparent discovery of poet Sylvia Plath’s unfinished, lost novel Double Exposure. When individuals who handle the manuscript begin exhibiting aberrant behavior, it appears that the manuscript is not all Plath left behind. Thematically, the story interconnects the transformative power of books, the fuzzy boundaries of personal identity, the need for emotional closure, and the possibility of life after death.

Michael Sudduth maintains a blog on his professional website Cup of Nirvana.