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Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies

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Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies

Duke University

Informações sobre o curso: How to Avoid Fallacies Think Again: How to Reason and Argue Reasoning is important. This series of four short courses will teach you how to do it well. You will learn simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and common and tempting mistakes to avoid in reasoning. We will discuss how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and how to construct arguments of your own in order to help you decide what to believe or what to do. These skills will be useful in dealing with whatever matters most to you. Courses at a Glance: All four courses in this series are offered through sessions which run every four weeks. We suggest sticking to the weekly schedule to the best of your ability. If for whatever reason you fall behind, feel free to re-enroll in the next session.We also suggest that you start each course close to the beginning of a month in order to increase the number of peers in the discussion forums who are working on the same material as you are. While each course can be taken independently, we suggest you take the four courses in order. Course 1 - Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments Course 2 - Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively Course 3 - Think Again III: How to Reason Inductively Course 4 - Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies About This Course in the Series: We encounter fallacies almost everywhere we look. Politicians, salespeople, and children commonly use fallacies in order to get us to think what they want us to think. Think Again: Fallacies will show how to identify and avoid many of the fallacies that people use to get us to think the way they want us to think. In this course, you will learn about fallacies. Fallacies are arguments that suffer from one or more common but avoidable defects: equivocation, circularity, vagueness, etc. It’s important to learn about fallacies so that you can recognize them when you see them, and not be fooled by them. It’s also important to learn about fallacies so that you avoid making fallacious arguments yourself. Suggested Readings Students who want more detailed explanations or additional exercises or who want to explore these topics in more depth should consult Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic, Ninth Edition, Concise, Chapters 13-17, by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Robert Fogelin. Course Format Each week will be divided into multiple video segments that can be viewed separately or in groups. There will be short ungraded quizzes after each segment (to check comprehension) and a longer graded quiz at the end of the course.

Para quem é direcionado este curso: This material is appropriate for introductory college students or advanced high school students—or, indeed, anyone who is interested. No special background is required other than knowledge of English.


Desenvolvido por:  Duke University
Duke University

  • Dr. Walter  Sinnott-Armstrong

    Ministrado por:  Dr. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Professor

    Philosophy

  • Dr. Ram  Neta

    Ministrado por:  Dr. Ram Neta, Professor

    Philosophy
NívelBeginner
Idioma
English, Legendas: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Chinese (Simplified)
Como ser aprovadoSeja aprovado em todas as tarefas para concluir o curso.
Classificação do usuário
4.6 estrelas
Classificação média do usuário 4.6Veja o que os aprendizes disseram
Programa
SEMANA 1
Welcome to the Course
Welcome to Think Again: How to Avoid Fallacies! This course is the fourth in a series of four courses jointly titled Think Again: How to Reason and Argue. We are excited that you are taking this course, and we hope that you will take all four courses in the series, because there is a great deal of important material to learn. In the series as a whole, you learn how to analyze and evaluate arguments and how to avoid common mistakes in reasoning. These important skills will be useful to you in deciding what to believe and what to do in all areas of your life. We encounter fallacies almost everywhere we look. Politicians, salespeople, and children commonly use fallacies in order to get us to think what they want us to think. Think Again: How to Avoid Fallacies will show how to identify and avoid many of the fallacies that people use to get us to think the way they want us to think. The first part of this course introduces the series and the course. It also clarifies some peculiarities you may find with this course. We encourage you to watch the "Introduction to the Course" video first as it will help you learn more from the materials that come later.
1 vídeo, 1 leitura
  1. Vídeo: Introduction to the Course
  2. Leitura: Course Logistics (Start Here)
Fallacies of Unclarity
CONTENT: In this week's material we will describes two phenomena that are both common and useful in the languages that human beings speak, but both of which give rise to the potential for fallacious reasoning. A word or phrase is vague when its meaning is not precise, and it is ambiguous when it has more than one meaning. When we use vague or ambiguous phrases in our reasoning, it is very easy for us to make a number of different kinds of fallacies. This week will teach you what these different kinds of fallacies are, and give us some practice in spotting them, so you can make sure to avoid them in the future. LEARNING OUTCOMES : By the end of this week's material you will be able to: define what a fallacy is distinguish various kinds of fallacies understand the linguistic phenomena that give rise to fallacies identify various kinds of slippery slop fallacies where they occur identify various kinds of fallacies of equivocation where they occur OPTIONAL READING: If you want more examples or more detailed discussions of the fallacies that result from vaguness or ambiguity, we recommend Understanding Arguments, Ninth Edition, Chapters 13-14.
9 vídeos, 7 questionários de prática
  1. Vídeo: Introduction to Fallacies
  2. Teste para praticar: Introduction to Fallacies
  3. Vídeo: Argument from the Heap
  4. Vídeo: Vagueness
  5. Teste para praticar: Vagueness
  6. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Vagueness
  7. Vídeo: Conceptual Slippery Slopes
  8. Teste para praticar: Slippery Slopes
  9. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Slippery Slopes
  10. Vídeo: Fairness Slippery Slopes
  11. Teste para praticar: Fairness Slippery Slopes
  12. Vídeo: Causal Slippery Slopes
  13. Teste para praticar: Causal Slippery Slopes
  14. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Out of the Box Argument
  15. Vídeo: Ambiguity
  16. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Proper Names Ambiguous?
  17. Vídeo: Semantic and Syntactic Ambiguity
  18. Teste para praticar: Semantic and Syntactic Ambiguity
  19. Teste para praticar: Fallacies of Equivocation
  20. Vídeo: Fallacies of Equivocation
  21. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: What's the Difference?
  22. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Equivocation
SEMANA 2
Fallacies of Relevance
CONTENT: This week describes two of the most common fallacies that people make: ad hominem fallacies and appeals to authority. Part of what makes these fallacies so common, and so difficult to avoid, is that many ad hominem arguments, and many appeals to authority, are actually not fallacies at all! Only some of them are. And figuring out which of them are fallacies is more of an art than a science. There is no simple recipe, but there are some rules of thumb you can use. We hope that the practice that you get in this week will help you to improve your skills at distinguish the fallacious from the non-fallacious instances of ad hominem reasoning, as well as appeal to authority. LEARNING OUTCOMES: By the end of this section you will be able to: determine whether an ad hominem argument is a fallacy determine whether an appeal to authority is a fallacy OPTIONAL READING: If you want more examples or more detailed discussions of these topics, we recommend Understanding Arguments, Ninth Edition, Chapter 15.
10 vídeos, 5 questionários de prática
  1. Vídeo: Fallacies of Relevance and Vacuity
  2. Vídeo: Fallacies of Relevance: Ad Hominem
  3. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Ad Hominem
  4. Vídeo: Silencers
  5. Vídeo: Dismissers
  6. Teste para praticar: Dismissers
  7. Vídeo: Deniers
  8. Teste para praticar: Deniers
  9. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Your Examples
  10. Vídeo: Appeals to Authority
  11. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Appeals to Authority
  12. Vídeo: Amplifiers
  13. Vídeo: Supporters
  14. Teste para praticar: Supporters
  15. Vídeo: Affirmers
  16. Teste para praticar: Affirmers
  17. Vídeo: Appeals to Popular Opinion
  18. Teste para praticar: Appeals to Popular Opinion
  19. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Other Authorities
Fallacies of Vacuity and Circularity
CONTENT: Now we will describe another common set of fallacies: fallacies that occur when an argument makes no progress from its premises to its conclusion. Sometimes, arguments make no progress because the conclusion is already contained in the premises. Sometimes, arguments make no progress because the conclusion is presupposed by the premises. And sometimes, arguments make no progress because the premises don’t make any claim at all, even if they might sound like they do. When you know how to identify such fallacies, you will find that they are more common than you think! LEARNING OUTCOMES: By the end of this section you will be able to: identify various kinds of circularity or vacuity where they occur OPTIONAL READING: If you want more examples or more detailed discussions of these topics, we recommend Understanding Arguments,Ninth Edition, Chapter 16.
3 vídeos, 3 questionários de prática
  1. Vídeo: Fallacies of Vacuity
  2. Teste para praticar: Fallacies of Vacuity
  3. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Vacuity
  4. Vídeo: Circularity and Begging the Question
  5. Teste para praticar: Circularity and Begging the Question
  6. Vídeo: Self-Sealers
  7. Teste para praticar: Self-Sealers
  8. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: What's Wrong with the Argument?
SEMANA 3
Refutation: Its Varieties and PItfalls
CONTENT: This week we will teach you various strategies for refuting a fallacious argument. To refute an argument is to show that the argument is unsuccessful. Even if you are able to identify a fallacious argument as a fallacy, you might still not be able to prove to others that it is a fallacy. In this week, you will learn a variety of techniques for proving to others that the argument is a fallacy. LEARNING OUTCOMES: By the end of this week you will be able to: refute fallacious arguments OPTIONAL READING: If you want more examples or more detailed discussions of these topics, we recommend Understanding Arguments, Ninth Edition, Chapter 17.
7 vídeos, 4 questionários de prática
  1. Vídeo: Refutation
  2. Vídeo: Refutation by Parallel Reasoning
  3. Teste para praticar: Refutation by Parallel Reasoning
  4. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Refutation by Parallel Reasoning
  5. Vídeo: False Dichotomy
  6. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Share Your Parallel Reasoning Example
  7. Teste para praticar: Counterexamples
  8. Vídeo: Reductio Ad Absurdum
  9. Teste para praticar: Reductio Ad Absurdum
  10. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Reductio Ad Absurdum
  11. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Share Your Reductio Ad Absurdum Examples
  12. Vídeo: Counterexamples
  13. Vídeo: Attacking a Straw Man
  14. Teste para praticar: Attacking a Straw Man
  15. Vídeo: Why Walter Should Shave His Head
  16. Prompt de discussão: Share Your Thoughts: Should Walter Shave His Head?
SEMANA 4
Catch-Up and Final Quiz
This week gives you time to catch up and review, because we realize that the previous weeks include a great deal of challenging material. It will also be provide enough time to take the final quiz as often as you want, with different questions each time. We explain the answers in each exam so that you can learn more and do better when you try the exam again. You may take the quiz as many times as you want in order to learn more and do better, with different questions each time. You will be able to retake the quiz three times every eight hours. You might not need to take more than one version of the exam if you do well enough on your first try. That is up to you. However many versions you take, we hope that all of the exams will provide additional learning experiences.
1 vídeo
  1. Vídeo: The Great Shave
Nota atribuída: Final Exam

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Avaliado em 4.6 de 5 decorrente de 108 avaliações

LC

It might benefit from a wider variety of more thorough examples.

ms

Excellent !

TK

This series has been quite brilliant. These lectures totally changed the way I formulate my arguments and also help me identify fallacies of arguments of others and mine as well. Overall I strongly recommend this course as well as the entire Think Again series.

Sumanta Sarathi Sharma

Interesting Course



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