Sunil D'Monte

How to Argue

If you spend any amount of time online, chances are you have been involved in online debates and arguments. Sometimes these things go well, but more often than not it’s a “comment trail war” where multiple participants say all kinds of things and no one is clear what the other person is saying. A hundred-plusContinue reading “How to Argue”

A Year of Grand Slam Data: Men’s Tennis and Women’s Tennis

Since the 2013 US Open (this post was originally written in 2014), I’ve been collecting the statistics published by the grand slam tennis tournaments in a spreadsheet. This was prompted by a discussion on sexism in tennis about a year ago, where I saw someone say he didn’t watch women’s tennis these days as itContinue reading “A Year of Grand Slam Data: Men’s Tennis and Women’s Tennis”

Analysing Arguments: Two Articles on the Death Penalty

“Analysing Arguments” is going to be an ongoing series of posts which analyse arguments found in the news and online media. Some good background material for this is Coursera’s enormously popular course Think Again: How to Reason and Argue, and the book Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic. You might also find the primerContinue reading “Analysing Arguments: Two Articles on the Death Penalty”