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Give them an argument : logic for the left / by Burgis, Ben,author.(CARDINAL)817328;
Many serious leftists have learned to distrust talk of logic and logical fallacies, associated with right-wing "logicbros". This is a serious mistake. Unlike the neoliberal technocrats, who can point to social problems and tell people "trust us", the serious Left must learn how to argue and persuade. In Give Them an Argument, Ben Burgis arms his reader with the essential knowledge of formal logic and informal fallacies.
Subjects: Right and left (Political science); Communication in politics.; Logic;
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An introduction to formal logic [videorecording] / by Aronoff, Scott,director.; Gimbel, Steven,1968-speaker.(CARDINAL)476832; Houston, Alex,producer.; Leven, Jon,director.(CARDINAL)554917; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233).Presenter, Dr. Steven Gimbel, professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College.Award-winning Professor of Philosophy Steven Gimbel of Gettysburg College guides you with wit and charm through the full scope of this immensely rewarding subject in An Introduction to Formal Logic, 24 engaging half-hour lectures that teach you logic from the ground up-from the fallacies of everyday thinking to cutting edge ideas on the frontiers of the discipline. Professor Gimbel's research explores the nature of scientific reasoning and the ways in which science and culture interact, which positions him perfectly to make advanced abstract concepts clear and concrete. Packed with real-world examples and thought-provoking exercises, this course is suitable for everyone from beginners to veteran logicians.
Subjects: DVD video-discs.; Educational films.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Logic.;
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Logic and the way of Jesus : thinking critically and christianly / by Dickinson, Travisauthor.(CARDINAL)795128;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The intellectual pursuit of God -- Jesus the logician -- Critical thinking and worldview -- The argument from reason -- Logic: The basics of critical thinking -- Deductive standards of logic -- Truth tables -- Categorical logic -- Nondeductive standards of logic -- Science and inference to the best explanation -- Evidence -- Fallacies -- Intellectual virtues and the art of persuasion -- Conclusion: Thinking Christianly -- Appendix: Practice problems.
Subjects: Jesus Christ; Christian philosophy.;
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Reasoning skills success in 20 minutes a day. by LearningExpress (Organization)(CARDINAL)341750;
Critical thinking and reasoning skills -- Problem-solving strategies -- Thinking vs. knowing -- Who makes the claim? -- Partial claims and half-truths -- What's in a word? -- Working with arguments -- Evaluating evidence -- Recognizing a good argument -- Putting it all together -- Logical fallacies: appeals to emotion -- Logical fallacies: the impostors -- Logical fallacies: distracters and distorters -- Why did it happen? -- Inductive reasoning: Part I -- Jumping to conclusions -- Inductive reasoning: Part II -- Numbers never lie -- Problem solving revisited -- Putting it all together -- Posttest -- Appendix: how to prepare for a test.
Subjects: Reasoning (Psychology);
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How to speak effectively in any setting [videorecording]. by Shadel, Molly Bishop,1969-instructor.; Teaching Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)349444;
Molly Bishop Shadel.The power of an effective speech is undeniable. It has the capacity to engage, inform, motivate, and create change in an audience, and in the world. In How to Speak Effectively in Any Setting, a 24-lesson course with Molly Bishop Shadel, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, learn the fine art of speaking clearly, effectively, and persuasively in contexts across the spectrum, from the board room to the bar room and everywhere in between. Professor Shadel teaches the underpinnings of effective speech writing and skilled delivery in settings both personal and professional, giving the tools you needed to appear both confident and competent in all public speech.DVD, wide screen.
Subjects: Instructional films.; Oral communication.;
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Fake news, propaganda, and plain old lies : how to find trustworthy information in the digital age / by Barclay, Donald A.,author.(CARDINAL)207837;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Credible information: why it matters, what are its limitations -- Fake news as phenomenon: (almost) nothing new under the sun -- Tricks of the trade: techniques that lower your information guard -- Logical fallacies: more tools of deception -- Evaluating an information source: nine essential questions everyone should ask -- Power in numbers: negotiating the statistics minefield -- Scholarly information: identifying, evaluating, and understanding it -- Help is where you find it: resources for evaluating information -- Final thoughts.Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies explains how to identify deceptive information and seek out the most trustworthy information to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. Barclay takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.
Subjects: Online news.; Fake news.; Journalism; Online journalism.;
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Your deceptive mind : a scientific guide to critical thinking skills [sound recording] / by Novella, Steven.; Teaching Company.;
Taught by: Professor Steven Novella, Yale School of Medicine.In this course, you will learn the many ways in which our human brains deceive us and lead us to conclusions that have little to do with reality. You willalso learn strategies that can be used to combat the mind's many deceptions. This course explores what is called metacognition: thinking about thinking itself."--P. 1, guidebook.
Subjects: Talking books, Unabridged.; Lectures.; Sound recordings.; Speaches.; Critical thinking.; Thought and thinking.;
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Ideas that matter : the concepts that shape the 21st century / by Grayling, A. C.(CARDINAL)347664;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-411) and index.Absolutism -- Accommodation Theory -- Activism -- Advertising -- Aesthetics -- Biodiversity -- Bioethics -- Biology -- Biopoiesis -- Black consciousness -- Black holes -- Black power -- Buddhism -- Business ethics -- Capitalism -- Catholicism -- Christianity -- Civilization -- Class -- Cloning -- Cognitive Science -- Cognitive therapy -- Communism -- Consequentialism -- Consumerism -- Creationism -- Daoism (Taoism) -- Democracy -- Deontology -- Economics -- Education -- Egoism -- Enlightenment -- Epistemology -- Equality -- Ethics -- Ethics, history of -- Ethnocentrism -- Euthanasia -- Evolution -- Existentialism -- Experimental philosophy -- Falsifiability -- Fascism -- Feminism -- Freedom of speech -- Fundamentalism -- Future, the -- Game theory -- Globalization -- Hinduism and Brahmanism -- History -- Humanism -- Human rights -- Identity -- Internet -- Intuitionism, mathematical and logical -- Irrationalism -- Islam -- Judaism -- Justice -- Law -- Liberalism -- Liberty -- Logic -- Logic, fallacies of informal -- Love -- Marxism -- Meaning, theory of -- Metaphysics -- Mind, philosophy of -- Multiculturalism -- Nationalism -- Neoconservatism -- Neurophilosophy -- Neuroscience -- Orthodox Christianity -- Philosophy -- Politics -- Positivism and logical positivism -- Postmodernism -- Privacy -- Protestantism -- Psychoanalysis -- Psychology -- Punishment -- Quantum mechanics -- Racism -- Realism -- Relativism -- Relativity -- Religion -- Romanticism -- Skepticism -- Science -- Scientific revolutions -- Secularism -- Slavery -- Socialism -- Sociobiology -- Standard model -- String theory -- Technology -- Terrorism -- Tolerance -- Totalitarianism -- Truth -- Utopia -- Vegetarianism -- Verificationism -- Virtue ethics -- War -- War crimes -- Wealth -- Westernization -- Xenophobia -- Zeitgeist.Ideas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundamentalism, globalization, and bioethics are transforming our world now. In "Ideas that Matter," renowned philosopher A.C. Grayling provides a personal dictionary of the ideas that will shape our world in the decades to come. With customary wit, fire, and erudition, Grayling ranges across the gamut of essential theories, movements, and philosophies--from animal rights to neurophilosophy to war crimes--provoking and elucidating throughout--Book jacket.
Subjects: Encyclopedias.; Knowledge, Theory of.; Philosophy.; Philosophy;
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The parasitic mind : how infectious ideas are killing common sense / by Saad, Gad,author.(CARDINAL)482093;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-234) and index.Preface -- From Civil War to the battle of ideas -- Thinking versus feeling, truth versus hurt feelings -- Non-negotiable elements of a free and modern society -- Anti-science, anti-reason, and illiberal movements -- Campus lunacy: the rise of the social justice warrior -- Departures from reason: Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome -- How to seek truth: Nomological networks of cumulative evidence -- Call to action."There's a war against truth... and if we don't win it, intellectual freedom will be a casualty. The West's commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threatened than it is today by the stifling forces of political correctness. Dr. Gad Saad, the host of the enormously popular YouTube show THE SAAD TRUTH, exposes the bad ideas--what he calls "idea pathogens"--that are killing common sense and rational debate. Incubated in our universities and spread through the tyranny of political correctness, these ideas are endangering our most basic freedoms--including freedom of thought and speech. The danger is grave, but as Dr. Saad shows, politically correct dogma is riddled with logical fallacies. We have powerful weapons to fight back with--if we have the courage to use them."--
Subjects: Political correctness; Freedom of expression; Intellectual freedom; Academic freedom; Social justice; Liberalism; Conservatism; Right and left (Political science);
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Mathematics, philosophy, and the "real world" [videorecording] / by Grabiner, Judith V.,author,teacher.; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Includes bibliographical references.Lectures by Judith V. Grabiner, Professor of mathematics at Pitzer College.These lectures reveal how mathematics has changed the way people look at the world. We study how the model of certainty in Euclid's revolutionary Elements influenced philosophers for centuries, and how the invention of non-Euclidean geometry further influenced philosophy and changed modern views of the world. As well. we consider how the newer disciplines of probability and statistics gave scientists ways of dealing--with precision--with events that did not seem to follow laws but were due to chance. We look at some elementary probability theory and its applications to the study of society, and we examine such issues as free will, determinism, and chance in the context of the philosophical views of thinkers from Pascal to Gould.DVD.
Subjects: Educational films.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings.; Mathematics; Philosophy.;
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