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The breaking news this evening is that Gordon Brown is due to take on David Cameron in a live TV debate in the run up to the next election.
Many commentators are now questionning the Cameron’s wisdom in goading Gordon into having a live debate, and think that the Conservatives have more to lose than Brown [...]

Check this super tasty new guide to Aristotle’s rhetoric!  Simple  and very very very interesting!
Aristotle’s rhetoric
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Aristotle’s rhetoric (ars rhetorica) was a treatise (collection of essays) on “the art of rhetoric”.  Aristotle was particularly interested in how rhetoric could be used to persuade using “knowledge” rather than “emotion”
His treatise was written to counter the Sophists, like Gorgias and Isocrates, who used emotion in poetry to manipulate people’s feelings and thoughts.  Against [...]

What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking is the process of deliberate evaluation of the “thinking process”.
What does critical thinking involve?
In 1941, Edward Glaser identified three core characteristics of critical thinking:

A general “analytical state of mind” that means a person is disposed to questioning and analysing issues

An understanding of how arguments are structured and how logic works

Skills [...]

So things are cranking up here @ argument towers.  Over the last few months we’ve been planning our next steps, which is largely based around getting aMaps into shops and shouting louder about the concept (i.e. getting some wider press coverage).
Shops – Huge thanks to Emma who’s spear-heading our launch of aMaps into shops.  So [...]

And so the time has come (at last!). Tonight we (Delib) host a debate in Parliament on the subject: “The Internet: Saviour or Corruptor of Democracy?” For those of you who are not able to attend, you can follow the whole debate live on Twitter via hash tag #idebate or via our Delib twitter account.
Hosted [...]

The most exciting new place to sell aMaps is Ampleforth College and Monastery (my old school).  The “Does God exist?” aMap title was mostly inspired by my Theology lessons with Fr Timothy, so am super pleased that the Ampleforth shop is now stocking them.
When I was up in Yorkshire this weekend I popped into Ampleforth [...]

After a couple of months of sorting out point of sale plans for aMap – and most importantly, sorting out the “call to action” messaging, we’re ready to take aMap into shops!
The most recent shop to stock aMap is the Aarnolfini bookshop in Bristol – which is v.exciting.  So far they’ve been selling aMaps without [...]

A big thank you for everyone who made it to the party last night.  Given that we were going head-to-head with Twestival and a Soho snow storm, we were super-pleased that 60 or so could make it . . .

So a week or so on after launch, we’re planning a weeee launch party next Thursday (12th February) in Soho (London) @ Piada, 50 Frith Street.  The event will start around 6.30 + go on as long as people want to argue!  Please do come along and say hi.  There’ll be free drinks + nibbles [...]