10 Informal Fallacies 2

Logic and Scientific Thinking

Course Information
1 Types of Knowledge
2 Premises and Conclusions
3 Empirical, Conceptual, and Normative Claims
4 Deduction and Induction
5 Deductive Tools, Validity, and Truth
6 Formal Fallacies
7 Informal Fallacies 1
8 Midterm Review
9 Midterm Exam
10 Informal Fallacies 2
11 Misinformation
12 Persuasion and Rhetoric
13 Correlation, Causation
14 Reading a Study Critically
15 Final Exam

Table of contents

Lecture
Reading

10 Informal Fallacies 2

Lecture

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Reading

Schopenhauer, A. (c. 1831/1896). The art of controversy (T. B. Saunders, Trans.). Swan Sonnenschein. (PDF) Required.

11 Misinformation