Perspectives in Controversy: Selected Essays from Contemporary Argumentation and DebateThese essays explore current controversies in the theory of competitive academic debate. Selected articles represent opposing viewpoints on significant in-round and out-of-round disputes. |
Contents
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Argument Borrowing and its Obligations | 33 |
The Question of Critical Thinking | 48 |
The Value of Competitive Debate as a Vehicle for Promoting Development of Critical Thinking Ability | 49 |
Enhancing Critical Thinking Ability Through Academic Debate | 73 |
Versions of Cause | 103 |
Constructing CountertoFact Causal Claims | 155 |
Flat The Force of Assumed Action | 173 |
In Defense of Utopian Fiat | 175 |
A Counterfactual Theory of Fiat | 191 |
Fiat and the Circumvention Argument | 217 |
The DecisionMaker | 243 |
Critiques Expanding the Argumentative Domain | 267 |
Beyond the Resolutional Question | 269 |
The Application of Proximate Cause to CEDA Debate | 105 |
Argumentation about Feminisms | 121 |
The Limits of Extended Causal Chains in Contest Debating | 131 |
Textual Analysis ReExamined Criticizing Kritiks | 287 |
Policy Debate Beyond the Rationalist Perspective | 304 |
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