The Enthymeme - what is it and how can it help you?
In every argument there are hidden premises as well as stated ones; sometimes revealing that hidden premise can help you expose a weakness in your opponent's case.
What are fallacies, how do you spot them, avoid them and deal with them when you come across them?
Debate coaches Lo and William discuss logical fallacies based on Lo's excellent workshop on logical fallacies in debating.
William chats to Sarah Beckwith, a long-standing memeber of 104 London Debaters and an accomplished Toastmaster, on how she overcame her fear of public speaking and how debating is both fun and useful.
What makes a debate a debate? It's the clash between the two sides of the controversy or argument. But even in everyday life, work and other contexts you'll be called upon to defend your views against the counter-arguments presented against them.
How do you do that effectively?
Listen to this podcast and learn 3 great strategies used by the world's leading debate experts.
Presented by Debate Coach William Hagerup.
(We had to cut out a clip from the Monty Python sketch in the Argument Office for copyright reasons, so please watch that here if you want to know what is being referred to right at the start).
The comedian and social commentator, Konstantin Kisin, gave a debate speech at the Oxford Union about woke culture. Here debate coach William Hagerup picks it apart - what can we learn, what could, and should, have been done better if this had been a 104 London Debaters debate?
This recording is from a Zoom-based workshop our founding member, Paul Carroll, DTM, held at another club within our Toatmasters District 91.
What is debate?
How is it relevant for daily life?
What are the key elements?
How can you do it better?
When TV-debates were polite and meaningful: recommended viewing by our founding member Paul Carroll, DTM
Interview with one of the founders of 104 London Debaters, Paul Carroll, DTM