3 episodes
Maynard’s Manias Maynard
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- Education
While this show will eventually cover a broader array of topics, the focus for the first few programs is on harnessing and honing base-level critical thinking skills. These skills are universally utilized by those trying to influence you to vote for them or buy their product. It therefore is incumbent on you to possess these skills. You will stand zero chance of being able to navigate the miasma of deception being daily shoved in your face without them. With them, you will be able to easily recognize valid and invalid arguments.
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Critical thinking superstar: Rene Descartes
In this episode we turn to seminal critical thinker extraordinaire, Rene Descartes, as instructive and helpful towards establishing our skills as reasonably rational human beings. I quote extensively from his meditations on first philosophy, as I believe it is best when discussing these critical thinkers to allow them to speak for themselves.
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Logical fallacies conclusion, with preliminary discussion of Rene Descartes.
I here conclude the portion of our discussion concerning logical fallacies. Specifically, we cover the false dichotomy, slippery slope, and Post hoc ergo propter hoc, and other common errors involving the basic miscalculation of assuming since B follows A, that A thus causes B.
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Logical fallacies: what you don’t know will deceive you.
Primarily I talk about ways that people can strengthen their critical thinking skills by attempting to make more accessible the fundamental skills and tools of reason and logic.