The philosophical method - logic and arg...

Language and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language? 

Metaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it? 

Moral and Political Philosophy: how should we live? What constitutes a just state? 

In this first lecture, using Descartes famous argument for the claim “I think therefore I am’, we examine how to identify and evaluate arguments. 

Part three of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will focus on how to identify and analyse arguments, and how to set arguments out logic book-style to make them easier to evaluate. 

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic. Logic, the study of reasoning and argument, first became a serious area of study in the 4th century BC through the work of Aristotle. He created a formal logical system, based on a type of argument called a syllogism, whic ... Show More

Associate Professor Zach Weber from the University of Otago chats about logic. 

Aristotle's invention of logic in the Organon (especially Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics) 

Love, friendship and philosophy in the Symposium, Phaedrus and Lysis 

Philosophy is often thought of as proceeding via elaborate conceptual systems. But sometimes, a choice phrase is all you need to get you thinking. 

<p>Calum and Adam sit down with Dr Greg Restall to get an introduction to the field of logic within Philosophy. They talk about what logic can be like at the start of your university philosophy career, and how the &quot;baby logician&quot; can avoid falling into the trap of becom ... Show More