The Argument Ninja Podcast

The Argument Ninja podcast is dedicated to helping you improve your skills at rational persuasion. Let philosopher Kevin deLaplante introduce you to a unique approach to critical thinking, inspired by martial arts training principles, that combines logic and argumentation with the latest research on the psychology of persuasion and belief.

Rank #1: 003 - How to Make People Like You.
Is it ever okay to intentionally use unconscious persuasion techniques to get people to like you? We explore this case study in the ethics of persuasion as we follow Derek and Carla on a lunch date. We also discuss persuasion ninjas Dale Carnegie and Robert Cialdini's principles for getting someone to like you, and lessons from South Park on how to get bigger tips.

Rank #2: 023 - The Argument Ninja Difference: Why Critical Thinking is a Martial Art.
I’m not the only one talking about the failings of traditional schooling. I’m not the only academic talking about developing online courses for the public that they can’t find anywhere else. I’m not even the only one using the language of martial arts in this context. (e.g. Jordan Peterson, Thaddeus Russell, Mixed Mental Arts ....) But I realize that even among my audience, it may not be clear how the Argument Ninja Academy is supposed to stand out -- how it’s different from what I’m seeing in these other projects. In this episode I want to talk about these differences. I want to talk about what makes the Argument Ninja Academy special. There are three areas that I can point to. The first is the martial arts inspiration for this project. It goes way deeper than just borrowing the language of belt levels. The second is a unique approach to teaching and learning critical thinking and persuasion skills. And the third is the instructional design of the project, and the team I’m assembling to help make this a reality. The skill set they bring to the Argument Ninja Academy is powerful. We’re going to talk about all of this today on the podcast. Specifically, I’m going to talk about what it means to be a martial art the difference between bujutsu and budo, the Japanese terms for martial art and martial path, or martial way, respectively. the martial context of critical thinking, and why this language isn’t just metaphorical my own relationship to the martial arts, and the original inspiration for the Argument Ninja Academy what teaching and learning look like, when you focus on skill development rather than rote learning what I’ve learned from my team partners about thinking clearly and thinking big.

Logical Fallacies 2

This logical fallacies content is used with permission from Dr. Michael C. Labossiere (www.opifexphoenix.com), also found at www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies.

Rank #1: 03 Ad Hominem Tu Quoque.

Rank #2: 04 Appeal to Authority.

Critical Reasoning: A Romp Through the Foothills of Logic

This series of podcasts by Marianne Talbot will equip you with everything you need to improve your reasoning skills. You will learn to recognize arguments and distinguish them from other sets of sentences, analyse them logic-book style into premises and conclusion, classify them as deductive or inductive and evaluate them appropriately to their type. You will also learn about fallacies - bad arguments that look like good arguments.

Rank #1: The Nature Of Argument: How to Recognise Arguments .
Lecture 1 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners.

Rank #2: Fallacies: Understanding where Arguments go Wrong .
Lecture 6 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners.

Straight Thinking

A podcast that highlights the importance of the life of the Christian mind

Rank #1: Biblical Anthropology: Dichotomy or Trichotomy? part 1.
Straight Thinking #162: Biblical Anthropology: Dichotomy or Trichotomy? part 1

Rank #2: The Near-Death Experience of Atheist A. J. Ayer.
Straight Thinking #277: The Near-Death Experience of Atheist A. J. Ayer

The Critical Thinking Initiative

The Critical Thinking Initiative podcast is a response to the low critical thinking outcomes among U.S. students across all levels of education. Episodes focus on all areas related to meaningful education, with a focus on cutting-edge, research-supported ways to improve critical thinking in any discipline.

Rank #1: Three Critical Thinking Exercises.
Struggling to find ways to integrate direct critical thinking instruction into your courses?  In this week's episode, Steve and Dave offer some modified versions of three exercises straight from The Critical Thinking Initiative handbook, exercises you can easily adapt into your coursework regardless of subject, discipline, or even grade level.  Also, learn about a mysterious "mental gremlin"!

Rank #2: Defining Critical Thinking: If you only listen to one podcast ... (Part 1).
In response to requests from their listeners, Dave and Steve try to distill seven years of research into 45 minutes!  The result?  An initial walk-through of how they help faculty and students across disciplines and grade levels conceptualize critical thinking. Want to know how to define critical thinking in a way that works in any classroom?  A way that can be assessed?  A way that can improve learning outcomes? Then tune in! Plus, news of the week and obligatory Bigfoot references.

Fallacy Friday

A series by Matthew Flannagan dealing with critical thinking, logic, and fallacies. More from Matthew Flannagan online at www.mandm.org.nz.

Rank #1: 05 The Genetic Fallacy.

Rank #2: 06 The Straw Man.

Reasonable Doubts Podcast

Reasonable Doubts takes an informative and humorous look at religion from a freethinking perspective; offering news and commentary of interest to skeptics, atheists, agnostics, humanists, courageous religious believers looking for a challenge and freethinkers of all persuasions. In addition to interviewing the top minds in skepticism (former guests include Christopher Hitchens, Susan Jacoby, Paul Kurtz, Edward Tabash, DJ Grothe) RD offers regular segments on counter-apologetics, biblical criticism, creationism intelligent design and church state issues. RD also examines the psychology of religion, reviewing recent and exciting research you won't hear about anywhere else. Tune in for a hard-hitting critique of religion balanced by plenty of humor, a fair-minded attitude and a commitment to critical thinking. Check out our website at doubtcast.org for information, episode links or to email questions, comments and challenges. Reasonable Doubts...for those who won't just take things on faith.

Rank #1: rd130 How Jesus Beacame God with guest Bart D. Ehrman.
How did Jesus, an apocalyptic prophet from Galilee, come to be regarded as a God by his followers? Bart D. Ehrman, Professor of Religious studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, joins us on the show to discuss his new book "How Jesus Became God", which traces the historical evolution of early Christian thought about the nature and identity of Jesus.

Rank #2: rd104 Religious Experience with guest Tanya Luhrmann.
For many religious believers the most compelling evidence for theism is their own personal experience of God's presence. Christians in the rapidly growing charismatic "renewalist" movement do not just talk to God. They claim to actually hear God talking back. Are these powerful religious experiences evidence that God really exists or are they the result of mental illness? Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann, author of When God Talks Back, offers another explanation: such experiences arise naturally when spiritual communities learn to train and enhance their natural capacity for imagination. She joins us on the show to talk about what she observed while studying members of the renewalist Vineyard Church. Also in this episode: just how much government revenue is lost due to religious tax exemptions and direct subsides to churches? The answer will shock you. Plus, a counter-apologetics on Richard Swinburne's argument from religious experience and a new pollyatheism.

The Fallacy-a-Day Podcast

Rank #1: 51. Reification.

Rank #2: 3. Argument from Fallacy.

Logic (Audio w/ .pdfs)

Audio of lectures, and .pdfs of powerpoint slides, for Philosophy 10, Introduciton to Logic, UC San Diego.

Rank #1: Lecture 06: Audio.
An introduction to the proof method in sentential logic, with examples using five inference rules (MP, MT, DS, HS, simp).

Rank #2: Lecture 07: Audio.
Additional inference rules (dil, DI, conj), and three replacement rules (CE, DN, comm). Examples of more complicated proofs.

I Didn't Know That!

Where RTB scholars offer unscripted answers to your questions

Rank #1: Best of I Didn’t Know That!: Best argument against evolution; where are the fossils from Noah's Flood; Could Adam comprehend the meaning of death?.
Episode #297: Best of I Didn’t Know That!: Best argument against evolution; where are the fossils from Noah's Flood; Could Adam comprehend the meaning of death?

Rank #2: The chromosome 2 controversy; Cancer cells part of God's design?; A trip to the edge of the universe.
Episode #263: The chromosome 2 controversy; Cancer cells part of God's design?; A trip to the edge of the universe

LogicallyCritical

In a world where gut feelings are given more authority than facts, where the average person is permitted to drive 2 tons of steel death, and ‘God did it’ is an acceptable answer to why something happened, your life may just depend on listening to this podcast. The LogicallyCritical podcast is intended to encourage critical thinking in everyday situations without the hassle of checking facts at the library. Rather than quote historical research or bore you with statistics about how many dentists suggest what cigarette to their patients, this will use information that we can all reasonably agree on, and will show by example how to more-fully explore any given issue be it traffic, religion, or how to lure a weasel into a cardboard box. The podcast is no longer being actively produced (10/28/07), but the episodes are still available.

Rank #1: Why Atheism?.
A practical look at why SOME people just can’t get behind the idea that an all-powerful entity created us and is deciding everyone’s fate. And yes, I use atheist and non-believer interchangeably.

Rank #2: Pascal's Wager.
Not the hydrodynamics formulas or the crappy programming language, but the gamble for your eternal soul!

Critical Reasoning Podcasts

This is the podcast site for critical reasoning narrated by Professor K.D. Borcoman specifically to augment the book Critical Reasoning by Roth and Borcoman.

Rank #1: Critical Thinking Chapter 2.
Reason and Emotion

Rank #2: Knowledge and Evidence.
Based upon Chapter 4 of Boss' Critical Thinking. An introduction to the concepts of knowledge and evidence

The Street Epistemology Podcast

Learn more at streetepistemology.com!

Rank #1: Ep 226: Dialogue | Street Knowledge | Rozetta | The Bible is True.
Recorded: 5 April 2018Published: 6 April 2018Released: 6 April 2018Here, I talk with Rozetta about her belief that the Bible is true. She believes this, she says, because she has yet to find any untrue things in the Bible. So we talk about what untrue things she would have to find in order to decrease her level of certainty. We also talk about how open she would be to changing her mind if that evidence were in place. If finding true things in the Bible makes the Bible true, would finding untrue things make the Bible untrue? Rozetta explains how she works through all this to arrive at her conclusion.Watch video of talk here: https://youtu.be/vDel4nfZK50Link to Raul's 'Street Knowledge' YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzxNyqE-FHUq7DozWh8sggRaul on Twitter: twitter.com/strknowledgeMusic provided by Chet Hovatter.

Rank #2: Ep 320: Dialogue | Deep Discussions | Jared | What Are The Odds?.
Recorded: 6 March 2019Uploaded: 9 March 2019Released: 9 March 2019YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/DDETSEFB2Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/DDETSEFBTwitter: http://tinyurl.com/DDETSETWWatch video of this talk here: https://youtu.be/gciybx-QkWMJared and I discuss his belief in the Christian God. We briefly talk about how the Fine Tuning of nature for life initially gave him confidence that a God exists, but his interaction with God active in his life is what most contributes to his confidence now. The examples he talks about where it is most obvious that God was active in his life is a series of circumstances that were both beneficial and rare. We discuss the relationship between odds, our confidence, and the truth.Music provided by Jim Rhodes, with Dan Harris on lap steel.YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/DDETSEFB2Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/DDETSEFBTwitter: http://tinyurl.com/DDETSETW

Philosophy Now

Podcasts from philosophynow.org, home of the most widely read philosophy magazine in the world, Philosophy Now.

Rank #1: The Thoughts of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Grant Bartley from Philosophy Now discusses the influence and ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche, the infamous German anti-Christian philosopher, with Ken Gemes, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck. First broadcast on 8 November 2011 on Resonance FM.

Rank #2: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics.
Grant Bartley from Philosophy Now talks to Manjit Kumar, author of Quantum, about quantum mechanics. First broadcast on 21 June 2011 on Resonance FM.

Intelligent Design The Future

The ID The Future (IDTF) podcast carries on Discovery Institute's mission of exploring the issues central to evolution and intelligent design. IDTF is a short podcast providing you with the most current news and views on evolution and ID. IDTF delivers brief interviews with key scientists and scholars developing the theory of ID, as well as insightful commentary from Discovery Institute senior fellows and staff on the scientific, educational and legal aspects of the debate.

Rank #1: Michael Egnor on Scientific Consensus and Apocalypse Now.
On this episode of ID the Future, host Emily Kurlinski talks with Michael Egnor, professor of neurosurgery at Stony Brook University, about the dire warnings, stretching back at least to Thomas Malthus near the turn of the nineteenth century, that overpopulation would lead to starvation and civilizational ruin. Egnor discusses this and other scientific claims once widely embraced by scientific experts and later shown to be off base. The lesson, Egnor says, is that when someone tells you to believe something simply because it’s “the scientific consensus,” reserve judgment. Consensus, says Egnor, is “a political concept, not a scientific one.” And when much of the scientific community is held captive by a dogmatic adherence to materialism, any claimed consensus is all the more to be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Rank #2: New Gene Research: A Single-Couple Human Origin is Possible.
On this episode of ID the Future, biologist Ann Gauger talks with host Andrew McDiarmid about new research challenging the common claim that the field of population genetics rules out a single-couple human origin. She and Stockholm University statistical mathematician Ola Hössjer have just published a paper in the journal BIO-Complexity modeling the scenario using a newly developed computer algorithm. The results, Gauger says, show that the genetic data does not rule out Adam and Eve. Their results are not proof, she emphasizes, just possibility; and different assumptions could produce different estimates as to when such a first human couple lived. See more on the backstory at Evolution News. Gauger and Hössjer are also building a site with additional information. It’s still being fleshed out but already contains a page with animations to help explain their new model.