This is a creatively named update on my previous Debating
Resources Post. Which was itself an update of a stickied post on the Communist Case File Facebook Group, which crowdsources useful information for debaters.
I am indebted to everyone who contributed. If you have any additions feel free
to post them on the group, in the comments below, or email me at Johnwbh@Googlemail.com.
Debating Guides
The Practical Guide to
Debating by Neill Harvey-Smith
Winning Debates - A Guide to Debating in the Style of the World Universities Debating Championships
The Birmingham
Competitive debating guide, Kindly donated by James Bowker.
World Universities Debating Championship, Speaker Scale - Used at most BP style debating competitions as well.
General Debating resources
Shengwu
Li’s Blog Lots of excellent advice on improving as a debater and meta-debate discussions.
The Monash
Debating Review: (Academic articles on debating.)
International Debate Education Association: Debatabase, Teaching resources, Debating
in the Neighbourhood Skills Guides
How
to Debate International Relations Motions, by Jonathan Leader Maynard
Debating
can change your life: Lucinda David at TEDxLundUniversity – Video on YouTube
Debatekeeper Android App - An excellent application that times debates and beeps at the appropriate times to indicate the beginning and end of protected time.
Useful Background
Information Sources
Rob
Marr's reading list for World Schools competitors, [Included with his
kind permission.]
The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has good introductory articles on
pretty much everything
Personally I prefer The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which is slightly more concise, but you’ll need to be on a university network.
The “Very Short Introductions” series is, as you might expect, a good introduction to many topics.
Best textbooks on every subject list on LessWrong.com.
Personally I prefer The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which is slightly more concise, but you’ll need to be on a university network.
The “Very Short Introductions” series is, as you might expect, a good introduction to many topics.
Best textbooks on every subject list on LessWrong.com.
Monash Debaters Association, Matter Guides
The Economist - Generally considered a good resource for concise analysis of political stories. At least one copy can be found at every debating competition.
Debating Blogs and other
general community stuff
- The Communist Case File (Facebook Group) – Crowdsourced collection of useful information and discussions. (Not actually communist.)
- European Debating – Contains an up to date list of dates for upcoming European debating competitions and motions from previous competitions.
- Global Debate – Alfred Snider’s Blog on international competitive debating (with a slight US focus).
- SevenTwenty – Dutch and general debating blog
- AchteMinute – Group blog focused on German and international debating
- DEBATTIERKLUB WIEN – Updates from Vienna debating society
- Debate Mate – Charity that teaches debating in schools.
- St Andrews Union Debating Society (Mainly updates from Worlds and Euros)
- Progymnasmata – Steve Llano’s blog on debating, rhetoric and argumentation
- China Debate Project
- Korea Debate
- Bangladesh Debate
- Asian Debating
- Friday Debate Blog – French
- The Debating Circuit – Pakistan
- Japan Parliamentary Debate Union
- Badger and Squirrel – Australia National University, (Don’t ask me about the name)
- List of Debating twitter accounts - Compiled by AchteMinute
Miscellaneous interesting
articles and websites
Some background on Sharia law: Tl;Dr: If you talk about Sharia as if it’s a universal codified legal system I will hit you with a stick.
The Non-Libertarian FAQ (aka Why I Hate Your Freedom) - A good overview of arguments against libertarianism. Also applies to any general state intervention bad/good debate.
There are times when slippery slopes aren’t an awful argument
The Philosophers Beard
Slate Star Codex - Miscellaneous philosophical writing
LessWrong - Articles on human rationality
A cartoon guide to criminal law - (US based)
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