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 ...

To advance a moral argument about the legality of controversial subjects such as abortion, there needs to be a reformulation of the way in which arguments are presented. When discussing highly ...

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 ...

Some find it plausible that a sufficiently long duration of torture is worse than any duration of mild headaches. Similarly, it has been claimed that a million humans living great lives is better than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 problem of negative truth is the problem of how, if everything in the world is positive, we can speak truly about the world using negative propositions. A prominent solution is to explain negation ...

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 ...

The Trump administration “recognizes that going to war over abortion is a losing battle,” says NYU Professor Melissa Murray, so now they are changing tactics. The anti-abortion movement is using junk ...

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