If you replay arguments long after they end, your brain may be seeking reward, not resolution. Here’s how dopamine shapes ...

No one’s a total pushover. We all have ways of asserting what we want and don’t want. While Kohlberg and others have suggested developmental stages of moral development, there’s little research on how ...

Strong and thorough evidence supports an argument or "claim," providing explanation in the form of quotes, statistics, personal reflections, and observations, to name a few. Yet, just including a ...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days. AI and the tools that enable it, including machine learning and neural networks, have, of course, been the subject of intensive research and ...

We all have disagreements with a variety of people from time to time. Arguing with someone who is being unreasonable can get to you, especially when you know you're right. You feel that nothing would ...

For years when I taught freshman composition, I centered the class around argument, the form of writing that I took to be at the heart of academic discourse and intellectual life generally. I assigned ...

Since last week’s newsletter offered a favorite argument for the existence of God, it’s only fair to balance the scales by considering a strong argument against religious faith, against the existence ...

A guy I knew in college once told me, as I struggled to make a point in a dorm lounge argument, that I had “the verbal acuity of shampoo.” The put-down was so devastating that it immediately ended ...