While her earlier works largely focus on society's failings and responsibilities, in this work she turns inward, explicitly arguing for the value of personal experience.
However, the novel does not argue explicitly that Jack's illness is acceptable, or not really an illness.
She then explicitly argued that the medieval "blood libel" - that Jews kill Christian children - has a basis in fact.
Aristotle even explicitly argues against some of the ideas that were demonstrated during the scientific revolution, such as heliocentrism.
Experimental philosophers are aware of these concerns, and have in some cases explicitly argued against pragmatic explanations of the phenomena they study.
They didn't argue explicitly, because as Cheung notes with a laugh, "A smart guy would never fight with an actress."
In the Kalama Sutra the Buddha explicitly argues against simply following authority or tradition, particularly those of religions contemporary to the Buddha's time.
Without explicitly arguing that all good books demand similar collaborations, Mr. Delany's book makes a good case for it.
In 300 CE, Bao Jingyan explicitly argued that there should be neither lords nor subjects.
Lakoff makes an attempt to keep his personal views confined to the last third of the book, where he explicitly argues for the superiority of the liberal vision.