Yuri Arcurs peopleimages.com / Getty Images/iStockphoto When I was in college, I remember naively signing up for a course called “Introduction to Logic.” It turned out to be one of the greatest ...

A June 22 letter writer admonished us to think, but his arguments were full of logical fallacies. He said to ignore TV news and press as “left-wing brainwashing.” That’s “tribalism” — prejudging ...

The biggest lie those who create and spread misinformation perpetrate is that they want you to think for yourself. They warn their target audience not to be "sheep" and not to let themselves be told ...

As a philosophy professor who teaches logic and critical thinking — the study of good and bad arguments and forms of reasoning — I have been a keen observer of the arguments given for and against ...

In his latest response, Professor Hülsmann does not engage with several of the central points of my argument. Instead, he ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Analysis was founded in 1933 to provide a forum for short discussions of topics in philosophy. It quickly established itself as one ...

Senior District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Photo: Ryland West/ALM U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New ...

a guide to spotting flawed arguments on the internet. And today we're going to talk about the burden of proof. This is the question of who needs to provide evidence for an argument, and it comes up a ...

The Philosophical Quarterly (1950-), Vol. 68, No. 272 (July 2018), pp. 560-579 (20 pages) A fitting-attitude analysis which understands value in terms of reasons and pro- and con-attitudes allows ...

There is little doubt that reactions to the death of George Floyd signaled a turning point in mainstream support for anti-racist activism. For some who had previously sat on the sidelines of the Black ...