Critical Reasoning for Beginners
By Oxford University
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Description
Are you confident you can reason clearly? Are you able to convince others of your point of view? Are you able to give plausible reasons for believing what you believe? Do you sometimes read arguments in the newspapers, hear them on the television, or in the pub and wish you knew how to confidently evaluate them? In this six-part course, you will learn all about arguments, how to identify them, how to evaluate them, and how not to mistake bad arguments for good. Such skills are invaluable if you are concerned about the truth of your beliefs, and the cogency of your arguments.
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Evaluating Arguments Part Two | Part six of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this final lecture we will look at fallacies. These are bad arguments that can easily be mistaken for good arguments. | 18 3 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Evaluating Arguments Part One | Part five of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will continue with the evaluation of arguments - this time deductive arguments - focusing in particular on the notion of validity. | 15 3 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What is a Good Argument? Validity and Truth | Part four of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will learn how to evaluate arguments and how to tell whether an argument is good or bad, focusing specifically on inductive arguments. | 11 3 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Setting out Arguments Logic Book Style | Part three of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will focus on how to identify and analyse arguments, and how to set arguments out logic book-style to make them easier to evaluate. | 10 3 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Different Types of Arguments | The second of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn about the different types of arguments, in particular deductive and inductive arguments. | 29 1 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Nature of Arguments | The first of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn how to recognise arguments and what the nature of an argument is. | 29 1 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Please compress volume variations
Thank you for releasing this course to let anyone in the world could share the privilege to be part of the class! I enjoy the content but had really struggled with the volume variations - every 15-30s rolling back to turn up volume to hear a student’s question; then fearing deaf when the professor started speaking!
I’ve asked a sound technician who advised that it’s a really simple job nowadays to ‘compress the volume’ to narrow the volume variations to make all the content more audible. Hope Oxford or Apple could take this recommendation to hugely improve the user experience of your iTune Uni courses.
