They're absorbed in scholastic debates about their man's drinking habits and pickup techniques.
Faced with ancient scholastic debates about consciousness and free will, they are even prepared to talk to neuroscientists.
Rival claims were often defended by highly reputable academics in scholastic debates.
This aggregated view of persons became the object of early and extensive scholastic debates as Buddhists sought to explain how we come to mistakenly apprehend an unchanging and enduring self in a stream of causally interconnected phenomena.
Twenty years ago, in The New Republic, Michael McGough argued, rightly, I think, that there is a noble impulse driving the destruction of American scholastic debate.
In the fourth century, before scholastic debate was properly formalised, zealous Christians called Circumcellions roamed north Africa braining theological opponents with cudgels.
In them we see for the first time a powerful thinker, solidly grounded in Aristotle, patristic theology, and thirteenth-century scholastic debate, bringing these resources directly to bear on educating his countrymen and inspiring them to pursue the happiness that rewards the philosopher.
Coordinated by the World Debate Institute and several academic associations, this weekend's conference will bring together leading international rhetoric scholars, along with a good number of American debate coaches, to discuss the current state of scholastic debate.
With all of the developments in the Middle East, this upcoming conference in Doha, "The Fourth International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate, and the Pedagogy of Empowerment," occurs at a fascinating time to think about the role of rhetoric and scholastic debate in empowerment and political change.
With the end of the Cold War and the globalization of civil society practices, scholastic competitive debate -- both high school and college -- has become increasingly internationalized.
In particular, the contents of the paper bring to an end a recent scholastic and rather fruitless debate as to how the drag and buoyancy constituents have to be singled out from the total force acting on a particle of a uniform fluidized bed at steady conditions.
