DebateLab

Outreach

  • Our outreach activities aim at improving the argumentative quality of public debates.
  • Experts from DebateLab have been interviewed in Germany's top news broadcasts (heute journal and tagesschau). 
  • We have been collaborating with ZKM and Badisches Landesmuseum.
  • We use our expertise in epistemology and argumentation theory to design and inform critical thinking teaching at universities and schools.
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Blog "Streitkultur"

David Lanius has founded the Forum Streitkultur and is actively blogging about how to argue in a civilized and mutually beneficial way. 

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Fake News Book

David Lanius (KIT, DebateLab) and Romy Jaster (HU Berlin) have just published a new book on Fake News. See also this website for reviews and suppl. material.

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Argument Analysis

Gregor Betz' new book introduces the art of argument analysis by example. It presents step-by-step analyses of three complex debates. For more info, check the supplementary website argumentationsanalyse.online.

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Argdown

Christian Voigt has developed Argdown, a Markdown-inspired syntax for complex argumentation. Supplementary open-source tools support both informal argument mapping and sophisticated logical analysis (see also this recent example).

http://argdown.org