12 episodes
Critical Reasoning: A Romp Through the Foothills of Logic Oxford University
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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. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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Fallacies: Understanding where Arguments go Wrong
Lecture 6 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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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. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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Inductive Strength: Evaluating Inductive Arguments
Lecture 5 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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Inductive Strength: Evaluating Inductive Arguments (Slides)
Lecture 5 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
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Deductive Validity: Evaluating Deductive Arguments
Lecture 4 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/