Word: argumentativeness
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...very much engaged in what I’m doing now and particularly enjoying the freedom to be able to speak and argue freely without having to be concerned with anything other than the intellectual quality of the argument...
...staying a million miles away from Faculty politics. I believe very much that freedom of speech and argument is a central value in an academic community, but it is a serious, serious mistake to confuse freedom of speech with freedom from criticism, and part of free speech is the ability to balance ideas or cast doubt on ideas with which one disagrees...
...commonly used argument against compensated kidney donation is that people in poverty would be most likely to sell their organs. While perhaps true, this concern neglects the fact that we already allow people with low-incomes to make their own decisions regarding the sale of their sperm, eggs and blood. Both kidney and egg donation are invasive procedures that come with associated risks. The decision whether or not to sell an organ would also not be made in a vacuum and one would expect medical professionals to fully present the associated (albeit minor) risks of kidney donation before surgery...
...Commentators on the state of undergraduate education at Harvard frequently bemoan the slow, sad deterioration of the Faculty’s role in governing their ostensible charges. As Masters of Education have replaced Doctors of Philosophy in positions of College governance, the argument goes, Harvard has slowly abdicated its proper place as its students’ matron and guide. Bread and circuses have supplanted education and virtue. The end is nigh...
...Hoopes Prize winner Elizabeth B. David ’08 said she credited her adviser, history professor David R. Armitage, “100 percent” for her success. “He pushed me to find the argument, to pull out my own ideas and not bury them in historiography,” she said...