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Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking

Dr. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Dr. Ram Neta

By taking Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking you will improve your ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians, used car salesmen, and teachers) and also to construct arguments of your own in order to convince others and to help you decide what to believe or do. This specialization introduces general standards of good reasoning and offers tools to improve your critical thinking skills. These skills will help you determine when an argument is being given, what its crucial parts are, and what it assumes implicitly. You will also learn how to apply deductive and inductive standards for assessing arguments and how to detect and avoid fallacies.

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Four courses

Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments

In this course, you will learn what an argument is and how to identify, analyze, and understand arguments presented by yourself and others.

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Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively

Deductive arguments are supposed to be valid, meaning the premises guarantee the conclusion is true. This course teaches how to use truth-tables and Venn diagrams to represent information in arguments and determine their validity.

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Think Again III: How to Reason Inductively

Want to solve a murder mystery? Who can you trust in your everyday life? In this course, you will learn how to analyze and assess five common forms of inductive arguments.

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Think Again IV: How to Avoid Fallacies

We encounter fallacies almost everywhere. Politicians, salespeople, and children commonly use fallacies to get you to think whatever they want you to think. It’s important to learn to recognize fallacies so that you can avoid being fooled by them. It’s also important to learn about fallacies so that you avoid making fallacious arguments yourself. This course will show you how to identify and avoid many of the fallacies that lead people astray.

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Learning objectives

Understand and appreciate arguments that you and other people present
Determine whether or not an argument is deductively valid

Analyze and assess five common forms of inductive arguments
recognize fallacies

Understand and appreciate arguments that you and other people present
Determine whether or not an argument is deductively valid
Analyze and assess five common forms of inductive arguments
recognize fallacies

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Duke University

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Dr. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Dr. Ram Neta

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Introductory

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