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1895 Lübeck Debate between Ludwig Boltzmann and Wilhelm Ostwald on the existence of atoms. [8] 1920 Great Debate (astronomy) between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis on the scale of spiral nebulae and the Universe. [9] 1927–1935 Bohr–Einstein debates between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr on interpretations of quantum mechanics. [10]
At the high school level, debate competitors outscore non-debate competitors on standardized tests and have higher grade point averages (GPAs). [55] One study found that competitors in the Chicago urban debate league (UDL) were more likely to graduate high school, scored an additional point higher on all portions of the ACT test, and had ...
1978: Walter Panas – Donna Gilbert & Patrick O'Neill; Bronx High School of Science (NY) – Eric Raps & Matthew Mandell; 1979: Bronx High School of Science (NY) – Andrew Berman & Herschel Goldfield; Marquette University High School – Jim Boehner & John Barrett
The topics for public forum have to do with current-day events relating to public policy. Debaters work in pairs of two, and speakers alternate for every speech. It is primarily competed by middle and high school students, but college teams exist as well.
An example: a student at a high school debate argues that increases in United States support of United Nations peacekeeping may help to render the United States more multilateral. Such an increase is very unlikely to occur from the debate judge voting for the Affirmative, but fiat allows the student to side-step this practicality, and argue on ...
The Kuhn-Popper debate was a debate surrounding research methods and the advancement of scientific knowledge. In 1965, at the University of London's International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper engaged in a debate that circled around three main areas of disagreement. [ 1 ]
The topic is only revealed to the students an hour before the actual debate by way of opening a sealed envelope in their presence. This ensures that no pre-written material can be used in the debate. Students are expected to speak for a total time period of four minutes which is followed by two minutes of questioning and rebuttals.
Rhetoric of science is a body of scholarly literature exploring the notion that the practice of science is a rhetorical activity. It emerged after a number of similarly oriented topics of research and discussion during the late 20th century, including the sociology of scientific knowledge, history of science, and philosophy of science, but it is practiced most typically by rhetoricians in ...