April 4, 2017
Bob summarizes some of the arguments from this season's disclosure/disclosure theory battles.
February 27, 2017
The first edition of "10 Things I Like and Don't Like" by Bob Overing features the Harvard tournament, plant pedagogy, and "1AR theory bad."
February 5, 2017
"What is an a priori anyway?" Noah Simon asks and answers the basic definitional question while presenting a nuanced distinction between two types of a prioris. His distinction provides insight into how debaters and theorists should approach a prioris moving forward.
January 20, 2017
The first edition of "10 Things I Like and Don't Like" by Bob Overing features the Harvard-Westlake tournament, K vs Theory debates, "We," and more...
January 16, 2017
Bob issues a public challenge to inadequate disclosers to debate him on the merits of disclosure.
January 8, 2017
Bob stakes out a spectrum of possible disclosure practices and defines three thematic divides to characterize the debates on disclosure. He defends a middle-ground approach to disclosure and clarifies exactly which practices that entails.
December 30, 2016
Bob's second post in response to Chris Kymn on disclosure theory applies the framework from Section 1 to out-of-round theory, forwards five reasons why theory is a superior option for this kind of unfairness, and analogizes out-of-round behavior causing in-round unfairness to the use of PEDs in sporting events.
December 29, 2016
Bob's first post in response to Chris Kymn on disclosure summarizes previous arguments about the nature of fairness and theory debates, setting up the framework for the next post.
December 23, 2016
Bob introduces the idea of enthymemes, suggesting that they pose difficult problems for tabula rasa judges. The question is not if judges must intervene, but how and when?
November 22, 2016
Bob says there are three obvious maxims that some judges aren't following: (1) pay attention, (2) don’t intervene, and (3) judge fairly.
October 13, 2016
In this edition of The Meta, Bob applies the typical pragmatic justifications for plans to the September/October 2016 topic. In a surprising twist, he also makes semantic arguments for plans -- what do you think?
August 3, 2016
In this edition of The Meta, Bob rehearses some common arguments for disclosure in more depth by imagining the same debate in a world with disclosure and a world without it. He then moves on to tackle Martin Sigalow's recent blog post in opposition to disclosure.
