Luke Muehlhauser

Symposium-style written debates

October 25, 2014 by Luke 2 Comments

I like high-quality written debates for which (1) one ‘top thinker’ on the subject makes an argument, (2) four or more other top thinkers on the subject reply, and (3) then the first author writes a final reply to his or her critics. I think of these as “symposium-style debates,” as contrasted with e.g. the Oxford-style debates seen in Economist Debates and elsewhere. (Is there another name for them?)

Examples include:

  • Boston Review‘s Forum
  • Cato Unbound
  • Brain and Behavioral Sciences
  • Psychological Inquiry
  • American Journal of Bioethics (almost: there’s no final reply in this case)
  • Various journal special issues and academic edited volumes that serve as symposia for published books or invited papers/chapters

Know of other examples?

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Comments

  1. josefjohann says

    October 29, 2014 at 11:45 am

    Perhaps http://edge.org/conversations ?

    Specifically, the conversations that list multiple contributors.

    Reply
  2. T. Greer says

    October 30, 2014 at 12:04 am

    H-Diplo roundtables.

    I usually call it a “round table” discussion, as H-Diplo does.

    Reply

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