Yuri Arcurs peopleimages.com / Getty Images/iStockphoto When I was in college, I remember naively signing up for a course called “Introduction to Logic.” It turned out to be one of the greatest ...

Some find it plausible that a sufficiently long duration of torture is worse than any duration of mild headaches. Similarly, it has been claimed that a million humans living great lives is better than ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Analysis was founded in 1933 to provide a forum for short discussions of topics in philosophy. It quickly established itself as one ...

When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ...

As a philosophy professor who teaches logic and critical thinking — the study of good and bad arguments and forms of reasoning — I have been a keen observer of the arguments given for and against ...

a guide to spotting flawed arguments on the internet. And today we're going to talk about the burden of proof. This is the question of who needs to provide evidence for an argument, and it comes up a ...

Flexibility is a continuous variable influenced by many factors. Obviously, environmental factors such as fitness, mobility, and activity are very important. However, the range of innate flexibility ...

Senior District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Photo: Ryland West/ALM U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New ...