Decision by Debate (Key Titles in Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Debates)

Wayne Brockriede

ISBN 10: 1932716475 / ISBN 13: 9781932716474

Published by Intl Debate Education Assn, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decision by Debate (Key Titles in Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Debates)
• Publisher: Intl Debate Education Assn
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932716475
• ISBN 13: 9781932716474
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Decision by Debate broke new ground in argumentation and debate with its publication in 1963. Ehninger and Brockriede were the first to recognize debate as fundamentally a co-operative enterprise, with the competitive clash of ideas occurring within a framework in which everyone has the opportunity to speak, in which everyone agrees to suspend judgment until all arguments are presented, in which everyone agrees to abide by the decision of the adjudicator. The most lasting legacy of the work is its break with formal, deductive logic and its introduction of Stephen Toulmin's model of argument to undergraduate student debaters, which, since then, has become a mainstay of what many have called the Renaissance of argumentation studies. Without the work presented in Decision by Debate, contemporary interdisciplinary views of argumentation that now dominate many disciplines might have never have taken place or at least have been severely delayed.