Ethics Bowl Symposium

The Symposium hosts a number of "courses", some of which are resources for Ethics Bowl preparation, while others are online hubs for the Summer Workshop Series and the Ethics Writing Competition. Most courses require enrollment keys, which you will receive either from your team leader or from us for the courses you are allowed to enroll in. You can find all available courses on the home page and all courses you're currently enrolled in on the "My courses" page above. You must first register before joining any courses. For any questions, please feel free to contact us at info@ethicsbowlchina.com.

Debating teams are promoted in schools as a spur to effective language and incisive thought. They serve that purpose, but only by setting the goal of persuasion above the goal of truth. The debater’s strength lies not in intellectual curiosity nor in amenability to rational persuasion by others, but in his skill in defending a preconception come what may. ––W.V.O. Quine, Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary, 183, quoted in Kyle Robertson, "Debating Democarcy: Building Argument Programs for Good Citizenship," in The Ethics Bowl Way, 11-8.