Matthew P. Brigham
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Justifying Debate as “Cerebral Gymnastics” and as “Glorification of the Experience of Play”: An Alternative to William Hawley Davis’s Rejection of the “Debate as Gaming” Vision for Debate Open
William Hawley Davis’s “Is Debate Primarily A Game?” (1916) represents an early, prominent effort to justify academic, intercollegiate debate and also, indirectly, societal debate. Davis sharply rebukes those who would conceptualize and/or…