Understanding Fallacies
Spotting When We Get It Wrong
Ram Neta
Professor of Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill
About
One of the very few survival advantages that human beings have over most other animals is our ability to reason. But if we are going to use this survival advantage to our benefit, we had better learn to reason well. Learn how to avoid using (or being fooled by) common fallacies of logic and argument.
Understanding Fallacies
PART 1: Fallacies of Unclarity
13 Episodes
Trailer
2 min
1. What and Why
10 min
2. Misusing Useful Tools
11 min
3. Unclarity
7 min
4. Vagueness
7 min
5. Paradoxes
11 min
6. Conceptual Slippery Slopes
7 min
7. Fairness Slippery Slopes
9 min
8. Causal Slippery Slopes
11 min
9. Ambiguity
10 min
10. Semantic vs. Syntactic Ambiguity
10 min
11. Fallacies of Equivocation
10 min
12. “In” vs. “About”
9 min
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