In this self-paced version of my popular live class, students work through The Fallacy Detective with guided video lessons and interactive activities. They’ll practice identifying fallacies in ads, conversations, and real-world situations.
Lesson 1 – Getting Your Brain Ready for Logic: Listening & Clear Thinking
In this first lesson, students learn how to get their brains into a logical, ready-to-think state. We start with a quick warm-up to “exercise” the mind, practice being humble listeners, and try a short activity to strengthen focus. We end by exploring why considering opposing viewpoints helps us think more clearly.
Lesson 2 – Relevance Fallacies (Avoiding the Question)
In this lesson, students explore why relevance matters in every argument. We dive into six common relevance fallacies—red herring, special pleading, ad hominem, tu quoque, appeal to the people, and straw man. Students learn how each one works, spot examples, and finish with a quick in-class review.
In this lesson, students learn how assumptions affect thinking and how staying objective helps prevent errors. We cover six assumption fallacies—circular reasoning, equivocation, slippery slope, part-to-whole, whole-to-part, and either-or. Students review examples of each and end with a quick, focused review.
In this lesson, students explore common statistical fallacies—forms of presumption used often in studies, polls, and data. We learn to recognize generalization, weak analogy, post hoc (false cause), and proof by lack of evidence. Students examine clear examples and practice spotting these fallacies in real-world situations.
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