William Rehg, S.J. (Ph.D., Northwestern, 1991) brings an interest in argumentation theory to issues in science studies, ethics and social-political philosophy. In 2005 he participated in the exchange program between Saint Louis University and the University of Frankfurt. In 2004 he delivered the Presidential Address to the Jesuit Philosophical Association. His forthcoming book is entitled Cogent Science in Context: The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory, and Habermas (MIT P, 2009).

He is also the author of Insight and Solidarity: The Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas (U of California P, 1994), the translator of Habermas's Between Facts and Norms (MIT P, 1996), and co-editor (with James Bohman) of Deliberative Democracy (MIT P, 1997) and Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory (MIT P, 2001).

Recent publications include:

• “The CDF Collaboration and Argumentation Theory: The Role of Process in Objective Knowledge,” Perspectives on Science 16 (2008) (co-author: Kent Staley)
• "Argumentation in Science: The Cross-Fertilization of Argumentation Theory and Science Studies" (co-author: William Keith) in The Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society, 3^rd ed. (MIT P, 2008)
• "Solidarity and the Common Good: An Analytic Framework," Journal of Social Philosophy 38 (2007)
• "Assessing the Cogency of Arguments: Three Kinds of Merits," Informal Logic 25 (2005)
• "Conceptual Gerrymandering? The Alignment of Hursthouse's Naturalistic Virtue Ethics with Neo-Kantian Non-Naturalism," Southern Journal of Philosophy 41 (2003) (co-author: Darin Davis)
• "Grasping the Force of the Better Argument: McMahon versus Discourse Ethics," 46 Inquiry (2003)
• "Critical Science Studies as Argumentation Theory: Who's Afraid of SSK?" Philosophy of the Social Sciences 30 (2000).