12 episodes

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.

Critical Reasoning: A Romp Through the Foothills of Logic Oxford University

- Education

- 20 MAR 2014
Answers to Questions (Other Resource)

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/
- 20 MAR 2014
Fallacies: Understanding where Arguments go Wrong

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/
- 1 hr 32 min
- 20 MAR 2014
Fallacies: Understanding where Arguments go Wrong (Slides)

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/
- 20 MAR 2014
Inductive Strength: Evaluating Inductive Arguments

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/
- 1 hr 37 min
- 20 MAR 2014
Inductive Strength: Evaluating Inductive Arguments (Slides)

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/
- 20 MAR 2014
Deductive Validity: Evaluating Deductive Arguments

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/
- 1 hr 27 min