Critical Reasoning: A Romp Through the Foothills of Logic

Oxford University

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.

Episodes

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/

Mar 20, 2014

1 hr 37 min

Analysing Arguments: How to Identify Premises and Conclusions (Slides)

Lecture 2 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/

Mar 20, 2014

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/

Mar 20, 2014

Deduction and Induction: Classifying Arguments

Lecture 3 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/

Mar 20, 2014

1 hr 30 min

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/

Mar 20, 2014

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/

Mar 20, 2014

1 hr 27 min

Fallacies: Understanding where Arguments go Wrong

Mar 20, 2014

1 hr 32 min

Inductive Strength: Evaluating Inductive Arguments (Slides)

Mar 20, 2014

Deductive Validity: Evaluating Deductive Arguments (Slides)

Mar 20, 2014

The Nature Of Argument: How to Recognise Arguments

Lecture 1 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/

Mar 20, 2014

1 hr 27 min