Any last minute pre-debate thoughts?
It is plausible that an existential crisis as discussed by Yalom [ 24] appeared to be evident in participants' accounts, particularly, in debating thoughts of existence vs nonexistence and the fragility of life.
Removing chemical weapons from Syria is now central to international policy debate, but thoughts must turn to other types of lethal weapons used by the Syrian regime in civilian urban areas.
Gabriel Stricker, head of search communications at Google, says that they were told Harvard profession Robert Darnton would be their opponent on the debate (his thoughts on Google Books are here, and wow he desperately needs an editor), and that Reback was added at the last minute.
It is useful for teaching different topics like transcription and translation and includes interesting information which would produce thought, debate, critical thinking etc. [FUp1].
A proposal follows for classifying thought experiments, before reviewing the state of the debate on thought experimenting, preceded by some remarks about the history of philosophical inquiry into thought experiments.
By contrast, of the 25 participants who preferred Brown prior to the debate, 60% thought that he had won the debate, versus 28% who thought Clegg had won.
