Tools of thinking
Subtitle: understanding the world through experience and reason
By: James H. Hall
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: The great courses; Great courses
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598030860
Subjects: Thought and thinking; Empiricism; Thinking; Pensée; Empirisme
Notes: "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover. [Transcript of 24 lectures on 12 CDs

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1: Lecture 1: What are "Tools of Thinking?"; title: Lecture 2: Which tools of thinking are basic?; title: Lecture 3: Platonic intuition, memory, and reason; title: Lecture 4: Intuition, memory, and reason; title: problems; title: Lecture 5: Sense experience; title: a more modern take; title: Lecture 6: Observation and immediate inferences; title: Lecture 7: Further immediate inferences; title: Lecture 8: Categorical syllogisms; title: Lecture 9: Ancient logic in modern dress; title: Lecture 10: Systematic doubt and rational certainty; title: Lecture 11: The limits of sense experience; title: Lecture 12: Inferences demand relevant evidence. pt. 2: Lecture 13. Proper inferences avoid equivocation; title: Lecture 14. Induction is slippery but unavoidable; title: lecture 15. The scientific revolution; title: Lecture 16. hypotheses and experiments; title: a first look; title: Lecture 17. How empirical is modern empiricism?; title: Lecture 18. Hypotheses and experiments; title: a closer look; title: Lecture 19. "Normal Science" at mid-century; title: Lecture 20. Modern logic; title: truth tables; title: Lecture 21. Modern Logic; title: Sentential arguments; title: Lecture 22. Modern logic; title: predicate arguments; title: Lecture 23. Postmodern and new-age problems; title: Lecture 24. Rational empiricism in the 21st century.