Getting Started

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• Why Logic Checking?

• Getting Started 1 – The Zinger

• Getting Started 2 – The Tweet

• Getting Started 3 – The Editorial

• Getting Started 4 – Argument Health Check (Validity and Soundness)

 

Argumentation – The Basics

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• Hidden Premises

• Example 1

• Example 2

• Deductive versus Inductive Reasoning

• Example 3

• Example 4

 

Language

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• Translation

• Accuracy

• Charity

• Economy

 

Psychology

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• Stories

• Emotion and Instinct

• Bias

 

What is an Argument Anyway?

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• Arguments vs. Fights

• Example 1

• Example 2

 

Type of Arguments

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• Forensic, Demonstrative and Deliberative Arguments

• Example 1

• Example 2

 

Diagraming Arguments 1 – Toulmin Diagrams

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• Introduction to Toulmin Diagrams

• Example 1

• Objections/Rebuttals

• Example 2

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Diagraming Arguments 2 – Argument Maps

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• Introducing Argument Mapping

• Navigating an Argument Map

• Evaluating an Argument Map

• Example

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Logos, Pathos and Ethos

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• Introduction to Modes of Persuasion

• Logos

• Example 1

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Balancing Logos, Pathos and Ethos

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Contradiction

• Introducing Contradiction

• Trump's Contradictions

• Tara Reade

• Contradiction vs. Inconsistency

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Fallacies

• Introducing Fallacies

• Example 1

• Example 2

• Argumentation from Outrage

• Equivocation

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Mathematical Fallacies

• Playing with Numbers

• Rates of Confusion

• Example - Comparing Apples to Applies

• Counting Votes - 1

• Counting Votes - 2

• Dealing with Uncertainty

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Information Literacy

• Introduction to Information Literacy

• Starting a Search

• Deeper Dive - Refining a Search

• Orgnaization, Synthesis, and Communication

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Rhetoric

• Rhetoric and Critical Thinking

• Schemes and Tropes

• Controlling and Argument

• Turning the Tables

• Rhetoric and Ethics

• Example - Inaugural Rhetoric

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Ethics (application to Ethics Bowl cases)

• Critical Thinking and Ethics: What's in a Word?

• Critical Thinking and Ethics: Hidden Premises

• Critical Thinking and Ethics: Controlling for Bias

• Critical Thinking and Ethics: Correlation

• Critical Thinking and Ethics: Modes of Persuasion

 

 

Evidence

• Evidence - Introduction

• Statistical Evidence

• Anecdotal Evidence

• Visual Evidence

• Visual Evidence - Example 1 (Photographs)

• Visual Evidence - Example 1 (Political Cartoons)

• Visual Evidence - Example 1 (Memes)

• Balancing Evidence

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Scientific Arguments

• Scientific Arguments - Introduction

• Follow the Science

• Example 1

 

Critical Thinking in Action (LogicCheckers)

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