Critical Reasoning: A Romp Through the Foothills of Logic
By Oxford University
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Description
This series of podcasts by Marianne Talbot will equip you with everything you need to improve your reasoning skills. You will learn to recognize arguments and distinguish them from other sets of sentences, analyse them logic-book style into premises and conclusion, classify them as deductive or inductive and evaluate them appropriately to their type. You will also learn about fallacies - bad arguments that look like good arguments.
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Answers to Questions (Other Resource) | Answers to Questions posed in lectures 1 to 6 of Marianne Talbot's lecture series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fallacies: Understanding where Arguments go Wrong | Lecture 6 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fallacies: Understanding where Arguments go Wrong (Slides) | Lecture 6 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Inductive Strength: Evaluating Inductive Arguments | Lecture 5 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Inductive Strength: Evaluating Inductive Arguments (Slides) | Lecture 5 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Deductive Validity: Evaluating Deductive Arguments | Lecture 4 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Deductive Validity: Evaluating Deductive Arguments (Slides) | Lecture 4 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Deduction and Induction: Classifying Arguments | Lecture 3 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Analysing Arguments: How to Identify Premises and Conclusions | Lecture 2 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Analysing Arguments: How to Identify Premises and Conclusions (Slides) | Lecture 2 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Nature Of Argument: How to Recognise Arguments | Lecture 1 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Nature Of Argument: How to Recognise Arguments (Slides) | Lecture 1 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. | 20 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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- Language: English
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