Do PIPA and SOPA threaten to reverse legal burden of proof in the US? Clay Shirky argues they do. I don’t know enough about the legal system, or the proposed legislation. However, this is a serious allegation with implications far beyond the US.
Posts Tagged ‘Michael Gilbert’
Burden of proof and intellectual property
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, Teaching, tagged Black Label Movement, dance, dance your phd, explanation, explanations, John Bohannon, Michael Gilbert, visual argument on January 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Dancing an Explanation
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, Teaching, tagged Black Label Movement, dance, dance your phd, explanation, explanations, John Bohannon, Michael Gilbert, visual argument on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some readers of RAIL may already with John Bohannon’s brilliant competition Dance your PhD. In the video below, given at a TED event in Brussels, Bohannon generalizes the point that Dance your PhD essentially makes: Explanations can be effectively delivered in any number of ways. Though the suggestion that dancers might replace the ubiquitous and [...]
Deep Disagreement: A Lesson from the Jewish Tradition
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Informal Logic, tagged Deep Disagreement, Judaism, Michael Gilbert, Richard Friemann, Walter Fogelin on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mulling over deep disagreement (again) I came across this nice little piece by David Suissa at the Huffington Post from a little over a year ago. In it he talks about the traditional Jewish narrative of the houses of Shammai and Hillel, who differed over how to interpret the Jewish law (Shammai insisted on strict [...]