Non-Policy Debating

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This work examines and hypothesizes on the theory and practice of non-policy debating. Rather than debating about what is right, just, fair, or true, non-policy debating is about propositions of facts, quasi-facts, and values. The work is designed from and for competitive debating within popular formats currently used in para-and co-curricular settings in both secondary and higher education. Fashioned for those using competitive debating as a laboratory, Non-Policy Debating is a guide for instructors and competitors in non-policy debating. It offers tremendous value to anyone wishing to discover a calculus for reasoning about questions and resolutions of fact, quasi-fact, and value. Contents: Preface, Acknowledgements, PRE-DEBATING CONSIDERATIONS: Pre-tournament Debating Preparation, The Critique and the Audience, Resolutional Analysis, PROCEDURAL ARGUMENTATION: Non-Topicality, Subtopicality: Hasty Generalization, Subtopicality: Counter-Warrants, THE AFFIRMATIVE CASE: Affirmative Casing: Stock Issues, Affirmative Criteria, THE NEGATIVE CASE: Refuting the Case, Countercasing the Intrinsicness, Counterplanning and Fiat Theory, THE OFF-CASE: Value Objections Policy Implications, SKILLS: Cross-Examination, Debating the Big Picture, INNOVATIONS: Critical Objections, Arguing Counterfactuals, Language Critiques, References, Index.