Philosophy Sports
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Philosophy Sports is a new modality of public participatory philosophy
featuring social reasoning (collaborative argument construction),
confrontation of divergent perspectives, live dialogue, plus real-time
phone-mediated voting and measured persuasive effect. The first
Philosophy Sport is an app, Tug of Logic, which is a
logically-sophisticated audience response system designed to serve as
infrastructure to facilitated philosophical discussion. Participants
evaluate supporting claims and overall conclusions by revisable live
e-voting, which allows for measurement of effective persuasion. Contrary
to the adversarial model of debate, in which only those who lose learn,
in these truth games one wins only by changing one's mind. Designed for
the post-truth era, these philosophy games aim to revivify public reason
and deepen civil discourse in the spirit of fun and fair competition.
They represent a radical new way to play philosophy and enact democracy.
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