Tag: argumentation theory

  • Discussing Kenneth Burke’s Essay “The Virtues and Limitations of Debunking”

    https://anchor.fm/inthebin/episodes/Kenneth-Burkes-The-Virtues-and-Limitations-of-Debunking-et26ah This essay is one of my absolute favorites to teach in argumentation. My friend Dan and I take it on in an hour long conversation on the latest podcast. Every year the students complain about this essay mostly because of Burke’s eccentric writing style. I’ve tried different ways of teaching it over the years,…

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  • The Toulmin Model and its Continued Influence over Argumentation

    Here’s a new episode of my podcast, In the Bin! On this episode my friend Dan and I discuss the continued influence of the ideas of Stephen Toulmin, author of many books but most notably Uses of Argument where he introduced the world to what we now know as the Toulmin Model of Argumentation. Listen…

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  • The NCA Alta Argumentation Conference, day 1

    So far, so great! This is my first time attending the NCA Alta Argumentation conference, and it’s living up to what people have told me about it. This conference is really good so far. Wish you were here. If you aren’t, don’t fret – I’m trying to tweet some bits of interesting information I get from each…

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  • Argument Culture (like bacteria?)

    There was an interesting piece by Roger Ebert today in the Sun-Times comparing Bill O`Reilly to Charles Coughlin, and using some scholarly research as support. Ebert, I didn’t think, had much of a mind at all since all he usually does is say rather obvious things about rather obviously bad films. But this piece changed…

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