Tools of Thinking (The Teaching Company): Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason

Taught by James Hall
University of Richmond
Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(24 Audio Lectures, 30 minutes each)

Course Lecture Titles

1. What Are �Tools of Thinking�?
2. Which Tools of Thinking Are Basic?
3. Platonic Intuition, Memory, and Reason
4. Intuition, Memory, and Reason�Problems
5. Sense Experience�A More Modern Take
6. Observation and Immediate Inferences
7. Further Immediate Inferences
8. Categorical Syllogisms
9. Ancient Logic in Modern Dress
10. Systematic Doubt and Rational Certainty
11. The Limits of Sense Experience
12. Inferences Demand Relevant Evidence
13. Proper Inferences Avoid Equivocation
14. Induction Is Slippery but Unavoidable
15. The Scientific Revolution
16. Hypotheses and Experiments�A First Look
17. How Empirical Is Modern Empiricism?
18. Hypotheses and Experiments � A Closer Look
19. �Normal Science� at Mid-Century
20. Modern Logic�Truth Tables
21. Modern Logic�Sentential Arguments
22. Modern Logic�Predicate Arguments
23. Postmodern and New-Age Problems
24. Rational Empiricism in the 21st Century