Podcast: Philosophize This! - How to Win an Argument Pt. 2 (Logical Fallacies)

Second part! I liked compiling the last list. I'm a very visual person, so the comics and memes help reinforce these ideas for me.

• Red Herring (Wiki, Fallacy Files)

• Argument from Authority // Appeal to Authority (Wiki, Fallacy Files)

• Begging the Question // Circular Reasoning (Wiki, Fallacy Files)

• Black and/or White Fallacy // Either/or Fallacy // False Dilemma  (Wiki, Fallacy Files)

Hasty Generalization // Fallacy of Insufficient Sample (Wiki, Fallacy Files)

Podcast: Philosophize This! - How to Win an Argument Pt. 1 (Logical Fallacies)

Listened to this on the drive to work this morning.

I've been fascinated by the still rather-new-to-me concept of Logical Fallacies (6 years of college and I never ran into them before?!?! Ugh.) and with things like this, sometimes it takes me a bunch of exposure before it really starts to stick. Philosophize This! is actually the first podcast I ever downloaded, but then I got distracted by some other great 'casts, and went without listening to any at all for a month or so-- but I've started listening once more, and I must say it's one of my favorite podcasts out there. Stephen West does a great job of making things simple and easy to absorb.

In this episode he talks about the importance of learning to craft and refute arguments well, and thus the necessity of understanding logical fallacies. He goes on to discuss several, which I will list here, with illustrations (first two pictures from An Illustrated Guide to Logical Fallacies, which has been sitting in my Amazon Wishlist for ages!)

• Argument from Consequences / Appeal to Consequences (Wiki, Fallacy Files)

• Affirming the Consequent (Wiki, Fallacy Files)

• Argument from Ignorance // Appeal to Ignorance (Wiki, Fallacy Files)


• Argument from Incredulity // Lack of Imagination (Wiki)
  
   

• Slippery Slope (Wiki, Fallacy Files)

• Straw Man (Wiki, Fallacy Files)

• Ad Hominem (Wiki, Fallacy Files)

• Appeal to the Bandwagon // Appeal to Popularity \\ Argument by Consensus (Wiki, Fallacy Files)

Hark, a blog!

When I was a teenager, I left high school to home school myself. And now, as an adult, as I can't afford to go to grad school, I'm homeschooling myself again-- at the grad school level this time!

College is expensive. Really, really expensive. Undergrad alone cost me 70k!, and I don't have the ability right now to up and move to any school that accept me *and* give me that illusive humanities funding that I would need. But, I also need to learn, regardless. I need mental stimulation and intellectual goals to keep me going. (And, one day, I might actually try harder to get into an official grad school program, and need to prepare myself for it!)

So, I've recently started taking my constant reading/learning in a more organized direction, and found myself starting to call this project of mine home(grad)schooling myself on Women's Colonial-Era Travel Writing. And, unsurprisingly, the hardest part about this solo-journey, is not having anyone to talk to about any of it.

Thus, I have started a blog! Though I've been scribbling in my notebook, it'll help me learn how to write well if I force myself to write and summarize and think "outloud" here, and it will give me a place to share some of the fascinating/super helpful things and resources I come across. 

So, welcome to my blog, and thanks for reading!