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  1. Bounded Psychological Change: Why Identity Preservation Constrains Experimental Effect Sizes

    Article • August 2026, Center for Open Science

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  2. Cohen’s convention, the seriousness of errors, and the body of knowledge in behavioral science

    Article • Synthese, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  3. Norms and Practices of Public Argumentation

    Article • Argumentation, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  4. Thou Shalt Not Squander Life – Comparing Five Approaches to Argument Strength

    Article • December 2023, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  5. A Scheme and Critical Questions for the argumentum ad baculum

    Article • Topoi, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  6. Norms of Public Argumentation and the Ideals of Correctness and Participation

    Article • Argumentation, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker, Dr. Hab. Martin Hinton, Jean H.M. Wagemans, Dr. Brian N Larson

  7. Predicted as observed? How to identify empirically adequate theoretical constructs

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2022, Frontiers

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  8. Authority Argument Schemes, Types, and Critical Questions

    Article • Argumentation, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  9. Identifying Linked and Convergent Argument Structures

    Article • Informal Logic, June 2022, University of Windsor Leddy Library

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  10. Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law

    Article • September 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  11. De-Biasing Legal Factfinders

    Article • September 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  12. Newcomb’s problem isn’t a choice dilemma

    Article • Synthese, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  13. An Eco-cognitive Model of Abductive Reasoning

    Article • Science & Education, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  14. Slippery Slope Arguments in Legal Contexts: Towards Argumentative Patterns

    Article • Argumentation, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  15. Schemes, Critical Questions, and Complete Argument Evaluation

    Article • Argumentation, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  16. Generalization in Legal Argumentation

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice, November 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  17. From Stories—via Arguments, Scenarios, and Cases—to Probabilities: Commentary on Floris J. Bex's “The Hybrid Theory of Stories and Arguments Applied to the Simonshaven Case” and Bart Verheij's “Analyzing the Simonshaven Case With and Without Probabilit...

    Article • Topics in Cognitive Science, November 2019, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  18. A Dialectical View on Conduction: Reasons, Warrants, and Normal Suasory Inclinations

    Article • Informal Logic, March 2019, University of Windsor Leddy Library

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  19. Conceptual Spaces: Elaborations and Applications

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  20. Hypothesis-Testing Demands Trustworthy Data—A Simulation Approach to Inferential Statistics Advocating the Research Program Strategy

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2018, Frontiers

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  21. Data replication matters to an underpowered study, but replicated hypothesis corroboration counts

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  22. Falsification

    Article • December 2017, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  23. Peirce Knew Why Abduction Isn’t IBE—A Scheme and Critical Questions for Abductive Argument

    Article • Argumentation, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  24. From Discovery to Justification: Outline of an Ideal Research Program in Empirical Psychology

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2017, Frontiers

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  25. Logic, Reasoning, Argumentation: Insights from the Wild

    Article • Logic and Logical Philosophy, September 2017, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  26. Legal Facts in Argumentation-Based Litigation Games

    Article • Argumentation, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  27. Does giving reasons pro and contra reduce biased decision-making in legal contexts?

    Article • Psychological Reports, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  28. Causal Argument

    Article • May 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  29. ERRATUM to “Miss Rate Neglect in Legal Evidence” by Christian Dahlman, Frank Zenker and Farhan Sarwar, Law, Probability and Risk . doi:10.1093/lpr/mgw007

    Article • Law Probability and Risk, January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  30. Extending a Multilab Preregistered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect to a Research Program

    Article • Basic and Applied Social Psychology, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  31. Argument-Based Bayesian Estimation of Attack Graphs: A Preliminary Empirical Analysis

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  32. A probabilistic analysis of argument cogency

    Article • Synthese, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  33. Miss rate neglect in legal evidence

    Article • Law Probability and Risk, December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  34. From reasonable preferences, via argumentation, to logic

    Article • Journal of Applied Logic, November 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  35. Reconstructing Recent Work on Macrosocial Stress as a Research Program

    Article • Basic and Applied Social Psychology, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Erich H. Witte, Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  36. Beyond Schools: Reply to Marsman, Ly, and Wagenmakers

    Article • Basic and Applied Social Psychology, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Erich H. Witte, Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  37. Continuity of Theory Structure: A Conceptual Spaces Approach

    Article • International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  38. Introduction: Reasoning, Argumentation, and Critical Thinking Instruction

    Article • Topoi, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  39. Using conceptual spaces to exhibit conceptual continuity through scientific theory change

    Article • European Journal for Philosophy of Science, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  40. Denying Antecedents and Affirming Consequents: The State of the Art

    Article • Informal Logic, March 2015, University of Windsor Leddy Library

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  41. Applications of Conceptual Spaces

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  42. Communication, Rationality, and Conceptual Changes in Scientific Theories

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  43. Editors’ Introduction: Conceptual Spaces at Work

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  44. The Laws of Belief—Ranking Theory and its Philosophical Applications

    Article • The Philosophical Quarterly, November 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  45. From Euler to Navier–Stokes: A Spatial Analysis of Conceptual Changes in Nineteenth-century Fluid Dynamics

    Article • International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  46. Editors’ introduction: social dynamics and collective rationality

    Article • Synthese, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  47. Basic Concepts of Structuralism

    Article • Erkenntnis, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  48. Perspectives on Structuralism

    Article • Erkenntnis, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  49. Modeling Diachronic Changes in Structuralism and in Conceptual Spaces

    Article • Erkenntnis, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  50. From Features via Frames to Spaces: Modeling Scientific Conceptual Change Without Incommensurability or Aprioricity

    Article • November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  51. Perspectives on Structuralism, Munich, Germany, 16–18 February 2012

    Article • Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  52. Bayesian Argumentation

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  53. What Do Normative Approaches to Argumentation Stand to Gain from Rhetorical Insights?

    Article • Philosophy and Rhetoric, January 2013, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  54. Bayesian Argumentation: The Practical Side of Probability

    Article • October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  55. Theory change as dimensional change: conceptual spaces applied to the dynamics of empirical theories

    Article • Synthese, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  56. Review of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

    Article • Inquiry Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, January 2012, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  57. Experts and Bias: When is the Interest-Based Objection to Expert Argumentation Sound?

    Article • Argumentation, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  58. Parmenides as Secret Hero. Gregor Betz’s Theorie Dialektischer Strukturen (Theory of Dialectical Structures)

    Article • Argumentation, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  59. Designing an Introductory Course to Elementary Symbolic Logic within the Blackboard E-learning Environment

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  60. Analyzing Social Policy Argumentation: A case study on the opinion of the German National Ethics Council on an amendment of the Stem Cell Law

    Article • Informal Logic, March 2010, University of Windsor Leddy Library

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  61. Using Conceptual Spaces to Model the Dynamics of Empirical Theories

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Peter Gärdenfors, Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  62. Eemeren & Garssen's Controversy and Confrontation: Relating Controversy Analysis with Argumentation Theory

    Article • Informal Logic, December 2009, University of Windsor Leddy Library

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  63. Lakatos’s Challenge? Auxiliary Hypotheses and Non-Monotonous Inference

    Article • Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker

  64. Monotonicity and Reasoning with Exceptions

    Article • Argumentation, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Frank Zenker