Switch-Side Debating Meets Demand-Driven Rhetoric of Science

Mitchell, Gordon R.

doi:10.1353/rap.0.0134

rap

2010

DOI: 10.1353/rap.0.0134

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Switch-Side Debating Meets Demand-Driven Rhetoric of Science

Gordon R. Mitchell¹

Abstract: where he also directs the William Pitt Debating Union. Robert Asen's patient and thoughtful feedback sharpened this manuscript, which was also improved by contributions from members of the Schenley Park Debate Authors Working Group (DAWG), a consortium of public argument scholars at the University of Pittsburgh that strives to generate rigorous scholarship addressing the role of argumentation and debate in society.

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What’s So Funny About Arguing with God? A Case for Playful Argumentation from Jewish Literature

Waisanen¹,

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Friedman

2014

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In this paper, we show that God is portrayed in the Hebrew Bible and in the Rabbinic literature-some of the very Hebrew texts that have influenced the three major world religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-as One who can be argued with and even changes his mind. Contrary to fundamentalist positions, in the Hebrew Bible and other Jewish texts God is omniscient but enjoys good, playful argumentation, broadening the possibilities for reasoning and reasonability. Arguing with God has also had a profound influence upon Jewish humor, demonstrating that humans can joke with God. More specifically, we find in Jewish literature that humor's capacity to bisociate between different domains of human experience can share a symbiotic relationship with argumentation's emphasis on producing multiple, contested perspectives. Overall, once mortals realize that figures such as God can accept many perspectives through humor, teasing, arguing, criticism, and in at least one case, even lawsuits, a critical point emerges: citizens should learn to live, laugh, and reason with others with whom they disagree.

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What’s So Funny About Arguing with God? A Case for Playful Argumentation from Jewish Literature

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Friedman

2014

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The Debate Authors Working Group Model for Collaborative Knowledge Production in Forensics Scholarship

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Woods

Brigham

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The disconnect between modes of knowledge production inforensics (mostly collaborative) and academic study in the humanities (mostly solo work) is a chasm that can complicate the transition fiom tournament competitor to professional scholar. Might arrangements that promote joint authorship help harmonize the two modes of knowledge production and convert creative energy fiom the forensics setting to the academic publishing enterprise? This essay considers the possibility, reflecting on how efforts to coordinate collaborative knowledge production in debate authors working groups relate to professional development challenges isolated in the 1974 The analysis sheds light on issues of perennial importance for the forensics community and also contributes understanding of how recent technological and sodological trends portend changes in the process of knowledge production for the academy writ large.

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Policy debate topic change controversies in the U.S. and Japan

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Hahn

Aonuma

2017

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Switch-Side Debating Meets Demand-Driven Rhetoric of Science

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

What’s So Funny About Arguing with God? A Case for Playful Argumentation from Jewish Literature

What’s So Funny About Arguing with God? A Case for Playful Argumentation from Jewish Literature

The Debate Authors Working Group Model for Collaborative Knowledge Production in Forensics Scholarship

Policy debate topic change controversies in the U.S. and Japan

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