The Art of Argument

In this section, you can find notes from each of our classes. Some of these notes will be quite complete and full, others will be a bit more scrappy. This is not a course manual, but it is instead a place to share information, ideas, stray thoughts, summaries, and suggestions in a way that is easily accessible.

As these are only notes — a work in progress — please don’t see these pages as something you should be citing in your essays!

Class 3 - Sheep, Wayward Fathers and the Role of Argument in Moral Life

Exploring argument in divergent philosophical traditions.
2025-02-10
7 min read

Class 2 - About the Euthyphro and the Elenchus

Plato, Socrates and the famous "elenchus"
2025-02-05
2 min read

Class 1 - Introduction

Our first class - getting to know each other, and thinking about the arts of argument
2025-01-03
7 min read