078 - The Existential Fallacy
Hypothetical situations involving dragons, robots, spaceships, and vampires have all been used to prove and disprove arguments.Statements about things that do not exist can still be true, and can be u...
16 Juni 201634min
077 - The Conjunction Fallacy
Here is a logic puzzle created by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.Linda is single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with the...
2 Juni 201634min
076 - The Genetic Fallacy
We often overestimate and overstate just how much we can learn about a claim based on where that claim originated, and that's the crux of the genetic fallacy, according to the experts in this episode....
19 Maj 201639min
075 - Special Pleading / Moving the Goalposts
Sometimes you apply a double standard to the things you love, the things you believe, and the things crucial to your identity, and often you do so without realizing it. Special pleading is all about s...
5 Maj 201638min
074 - Begging The Question
If you believe something is bad because it is...bad, or that something is good because, well, it's good, you probably wouldn't use that kind of reasoning in an argument, yet, sometimes, without realiz...
21 Apr 201635min
073 - Bayes' Theorem
We don’t treat all of our beliefs equally.For some, we see them as either true or false, correct or incorrect. For others, we see them as probabilities, chances, odds. In one world, certainty, in the ...
8 Apr 20161h 28min
072 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (Rebroadcast)
In this episode, we explore why we are unaware that we lack the skill to tell how unskilled and unaware we are. The evidence gathered so far by psychologists and neuroscientists seems to suggest that ...
24 Mars 20161h 5min
071 - The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
When you desire meaning, when you want things to line up, when looking for something specific, you tend to notice patterns everywhere, which leads you to ask the question, “What are the odds?” Usually...
9 Mars 201644min
