A salon for the unresolvedWhere ideas meet their match.
A private space for you and your friends to argue well. Take a side. Make the case.
Three ways to argue
Every debate takes one of three shapes. Pick the one that fits the question.
Structured Rounds
Two sides take turns across timed rounds of opening, rebuttal, and closing.
Free Discussion
An open thread — anyone can chime in freely, no fixed sides or rounds.
Live Head-to-Head
Two debaters go back and forth in real time while the room votes on the winner.
On the floor now
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Are aesthetic judgments purely subjective, or is there something objective — even universal — about what we find beautiful?
Even with a complete map of the brain's mechanisms, can science explain why there is something it is like to be a subject — the qualitative feel of experience?
If every event is the consequence of prior causes, can human choice ever be truly free — or is the experience of agency a useful fiction?
Five lives versus one. Is the utilitarian choice obviously right, or does actively causing harm cross a moral line that allowing harm does not?
Gettier cases seem to break the classical definition. Is there any account of knowledge that survives them, or should we give up on defining knowledge altogether?