Critical Reasoning for Beginners podcast artwork
Education

Critical Reasoning for Beginners

by Oxford University
Share this ranking Claiming needs an RSS feed. Contact us.

Chart positions today · South Africa

Not on the South Africa charts we track today.

If you like Critical Reasoning for Beginners, try…

Latest episodes

  • Evaluating Arguments Part Two

    March 18, 2010 · 57 min

    Part six of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this final lecture we will look at fallacies. These are bad arguments that can easily be mistaken for good arguments.

  • Evaluating Arguments Part One

    March 15, 2010 · 1 hr 6 min

    Part five of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will continue with the evaluation of arguments - this time deductive arguments - focusing in particular on the notion of validity.

  • What is a Good Argument? Validity and Truth

    March 11, 2010 · 53 min

    Part four of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will learn how to evaluate arguments and how to tell whether an argument is good or bad, focusing specifically on inductive arguments.

  • Setting out Arguments Logic Book Style

    March 10, 2010 · 1 hr 20 min

    Part three of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will focus on how to identify and analyse arguments, and how to set arguments out logic book-style to make them easier to evaluate.

  • Different Types of Arguments

    January 29, 2010 · 1 hr 11 min

    The second of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn about the different types of arguments, in particular deductive and inductive arguments.

Show 1 more episodeShow fewer episodes
  • The Nature of Arguments

    January 29, 2010 · 1 hr 18 min

    The first of six lectures dealing with critical reasoning. In this lecture you will learn how to recognise arguments and what the nature of an argument is.

Full episode archive on Apple Podcasts →

About the show

Are you confident you can reason clearly? Are you able to convince others of your point of view? Are you able to give plausible reasons for believing what you believe? Do you sometimes read arguments in the newspapers, hear them on the television, or in the pub and wish you knew how to confidently evaluate them? In this six-part course, you will learn all about arguments, how to identify them, how to evaluate them, and how not to mistake bad arguments for good. Such skills are invaluable if you are concerned about the truth of your beliefs, and the cogency of your arguments.