I’ve often maintained that when opposing parties agree to a certain set of premises, that this might indicate that those premises are...

This special holiday episode of LogicCheck is dedicated to an evergreen in political cartooning: the use of Christmas-related images to...

Sorry for the outage the last couple of weeks. My younger son just graduated high school, which meant visits from many relatives and lots...

This week’s trial based on Impeachment II of America’s 45th President highlights why logic-checking (a catch-all term for a set of...

Keeping with the theme of showcasing examples of high-quality arguments, I’d like to pick one today that illustrates multiple attributes...

Given how much we are urged to “follow the science” when making important decisions about health, the environment, and other matters...

I recently read an interesting article on the role of science in debates over controversial issues, which got me thinking about the...

A new colleague I met at last week’s American Philosophical Association (APA) conference in cyberspace recommended that I share an...

In theory, everything changed last week when the seemingly trivial topic I talked about (the decision of online publications to remove...

Last year, the online publication Inside Higher Education decided to eliminate comment sections, joining a long list of publications that...

The final presidential debate demonstrates how deliberation is where critical thinking and democratic politics meet.

Taking a break from national politics to logic-check a state ballot initiative on ranked-choice voting.

Time to apply argument mapping techniques to a real-world issue over whether or not we should "defund the police."

How to use an argument map to evaluate the quality of an argument.

In this discussion of argument mapping, we are joined by National Otey, COO of Thinker Analytix.

Here's a real argument, rather than a fight, over how to best manage the reopening of society.

If we want to solve our problems, we need to find a way to argue, rather than fight about them.

Before you analyze an argument, how can you be sure you're actually seeing one?

Is there a strong argument for ending press coverage of President Trump's daily Covid briefings?

What does Bernie Sanders' farewell address teach us about forensic, demonstrative and deliberative argumentation?