Wednesday at the Workshop

The students were greeted once again today by the shining faces of their lab leaders bright and early at 9am where they met in lab and continued the process of formulating cases and ideas for why a just government should provide healthcare to its' citizens. Before lunch, students were given an opportunity to enact the the skills of a good cross-examination that were demonstrated in the lecture given right before, which served as a valuable lesson to how debaters should carry themselves in the three minutes that can make or break a round. After lunch, students met for lectures on Dignity and Social Utility or Consequentialism, Deontology, and Relativism where they examined how philosophy can be used not only to encourage critical thinking but also to win ballots. Students explored the vast resources of the UNT library today where they had access to floors of books and electronic resources such as JSTOR. The evening began to wind down with lectures on Contractual Justice and Critical Theory before labs met for one final time. Almost all of the students continued to work on debate and their cases with the lab leaders who made themselves available even after all formalized activities had ended. Students and staff worked together up until the very last possible minute when students were sent upstairs to get some well earned rest.