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New on Amazon - Paperback: How to Coach A Debate Team

profesorbaker wrote 4 hours ago: How to Coach A Debate Team This book contains all you need to know to successfully coach a debate te … more →

Tags: Debates, Education, Education Technology, EFL, Higher Education Teaching & Learning, interviews, Reading 2, Reflections, Teaching Tips

Exitosa primera fase del Torneo de Debates en Inglés se realizó en el Bio Bio

profesorbaker wrote 17 hours ago: Exitosa primera fase del Torneo de Debates en Inglés se realizó en el Bío Bío Fuente: Mineduc … more →

Tags: Debates, Teach, Speaking, learn, Debate, Research, Team, coach, Opposition

Werbung über Alles1 comment

O. wrote 5 days ago: I don’t have too much to add to Wild Bill’s analysis of recent statements summarizing th … more →

Tags: political spectacle, Rhetoric, Class Status, audience, Advertisements, Cliches, bureaucratic language

Do Default Positions Exist?2 comments

JW Gray wrote 1 week ago: The term “default position” refers to a belief (or lack of belief) that is preferable prior to debat … more →

Tags: Epistemology, Philosophy, Atheism, Burden of proof, Debate, default position, God, Justification, Rationality

State Coercion, Objectivism and Compassion1 comment

Xajow wrote 1 week ago: I was looking around again, and I found a post at a blog called A Nine Pound Hammer …. or a Wo … more →

Tags: libertarianism, Philosophy, anti-libertarianism, Morality, Philosophy, argumentation, Coercion, Objectivism, compassion

What One Should Be the Most Critical about1 comment

VVK wrote 2 weeks ago: See here for the Finnish version: Kaikkein epäilyttävin lähde (I have a bigger thing coming up here, … more →

Tags: Critical Thinking, English, Belief, Debate, Differing Views, double-standard, Metacognition, Opinion, subjectivity

Post Doc Postion in Argumentation and Explanation

Steve wrote 2 weeks ago: The Scrutable Autonomous Systems (SAsSy) project aims to enable the scrutiny of autonomous systems b … more →

Tags: computation, Job openings, post doc positions in argumentation, artgumentation and explanation, dialogue logic, scrutable autonomous systems

Establishing Trust in the Twenty First Century: Negotiating Tensions Between National Security and Civil Liberties

critiquesociety wrote 2 weeks ago: Establishing Trust in the Twenty First Century A dominant theme in political discourse in the United … more →

Tags: Communication 2, Politics, Comm, Civil Liberties, Public Safety, national security, Privacy, Right to Privacy, Post Nine-eleven

Video Tip: How KIPP Teachers Learn to Teach Critical Thinking

Greece Athena wrote 2 weeks ago: The KIPP Charter schools focus heavily on teaching from a focus on critical thinking.  Teacher in th … more →

Tags: Instruction, Video 2, Critical Thinking, Edutopia, Analysis, socratic seminar, kipp schools

What is the Burden of Proof?2 comments

JW Gray wrote 2 weeks ago: One of the most confusing topics regarding argumentation and rationality is what we call the “burden … more →

Tags: Epistemology, Philosophy, Debate, Justification, Rationality

About That Tyranny of Clichés2 comments

Alan wrote 3 weeks ago: G. K. Chesterton once quipped that “people generally quarrel because they cannot argue” … more →

Tags: Arguing Past Each Other, Arguing with Conservatives, Conservative Framing Devices, The Conservative-Liberal Divide, G. K. Chesterton, Ideology Is Not Something to be Shunned, Jonah Goldberg, Jonah Goldberg NPR Interview, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Lef

Visualizing the evolution of a debate on the web with Argublogging

David Herrera wrote 3 weeks ago: Argublogging is an application that allows users to write arguments supporting or dissenting from an … more →

Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Solution for the War on Drugs1 comment

Xajow wrote 3 weeks ago: Some days back, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein had an opinion piece published at The Hill. Her soluti … more →

Tags: Philosophy, drug war, Prohibition, Dianne Feinstein, drugs, drug war, Drug Legalization, decriminalization

Call for Papers: Argumentation 2012

legalinformatics wrote 3 weeks ago: A call for papers — with submission deadline of 7 September 2012 — has been issued for A … more →

Tags: conference announcements, Calls for Papers, Law and Literature, Interpretation of legal language, Legal Argumentation, Legal rhetoric, Natural language processing and law, Visualization of legal information, Legal Reasoning

Critical stakes

drcateh wrote 4 weeks ago: I keep hearing from colleagues in other disciplines that the stakes are incredibly low in contempora … more →

Tags: Discourse Analysis, Critical Thinking, Bias, Communication, Psychology, Feminism

Introduction to Argument Mapping & Critical Thinking (Ebook/PDF, updated 5/22/2012)4 comments

JW Gray wrote 4 weeks ago: I have made an introduction to argument mapping and critical thinking in the form of an ebook. There … more →

Tags: Philosophy, argument maps, Critical Thinking, eBook, Education, Informal Fallacies, Lecture Notes, logic, pdf

[A] Argument: Final Paper

Mr. Eure wrote 1 month ago: Remember to keep the materials archived in this post open and organized at all times during the proc … more →

Tags: Adversarial, Collaboration, writing process, Persuasive Writing, argumentation, persuasive writing, Final Drafts, GOOGLE DOCS

On Intellectual Savagery: The Evangelical Response to The False Division11 comments

Jonathan Hontz wrote 1 month ago: Black percheron draft horse butt (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I attempted to engage a man in an online … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Philosophy, Civilization, logic, Christianity, Evangelical, Theodore Beale, Ad Hominem, logical fallacy

Real World Examples of Liberal Brotherly Love27 comments

Xajow wrote 1 month ago: Andrew Breitbart died on March 1, 2012. Yesterday in the news was the report that the coroner has ru … more →

Tags: Politics, Liberals, Conservatives, Hate


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