Author: Steve
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Planning a Course in Legal Argumentation
In planning a course, my mind tends to wander. I think about what it would be like to be in that course, and what it would look like as a failure and as a success. What do students say about it? What can they say? What options do they have after the course in terms…
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Rhetoric, Oratory, Argumentation, and Debate
Welcome to Sophistic Disputation by me, Steve Llano. Teacher and Professor of Rhetoric, Debate, Argument and Oratory. Love words, love speeches, and love talking about what we can learn from debate.\n\nhttps://ko-fi.com/stevellano Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. In the meantime, tell your friends!
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Moved!
Moving is one of these things that is so disruptive it’s hard to consider it as anything other than disruption itself. There is no way – at least for me – to put things where they go since there is no where they go when you are in a new spot. Luckily I have a…
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The Canonical Debate Lab is on a Mission to Clean Up Internet Debate
https://anchor.fm/inthebin/episodes/The-Canonical-Debate-Lab-Can-Internet-Debating-Have-Value-e10ao4h In this latest episode, I chat with the co-founders of the Canonical Debate Lab about their project to establish a way to collect, store, and provide arguments to the world to improve decision making. I’m joined by Timothy High and Bentley Davis to talk about how computers, coding, and the internet can hopefully improve…
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New Podcast Episode: Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Post-Structuralism
Dr. Lee Pierce, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo joins Dr. Dan the Renaissance Man and Steve for a discussion on the relationship of post-structuralism to rhetoric, graduate school pedagogy, and whether or not it matters if you have read everything Derrida ever wrote. Have a listen here!
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Cooking and Debating: Debating and the Need for a New Metaphor
The history of American intercollegiate debate practice is mostly the tracking of metaphors. Debate instructors and debate practice has always been connected to some metaphor that communicates the value and importance of debate as an educational practice. Since the mid 20th century, that metaphor has only been “fair competition” and further reduced to “fair tournament…
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Should Students Speak about Controversy in the Public Speaking Class?
I was asked by the people at Power of Public Speaking if I would like to be a guest host on their POPs Community podcast. In thinking about what to talk about for 45 minutes or so, I thought a great topic would be why we are obligated to allow students to speak about very…
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That’s Not Relevant
Relevance is a part of argumentation, not a rule or container that surrounds or determines what kinds of arguments are permitted. It’s not a referee and it’s not a boundary. Consider relevance an ask, or an indicator, that you are not doing a very good job of sharing your view with your audience/interlocutor. They are…
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