AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Ukrainina activists hold flash mob at Kiev airport
CLEAN : Ukrainina activists hold flash mob at Kiev airport
Bloomberg
Standard & Poor’s Takes Hardline on Emerging Markets
Feb. 22 -- Standard & Poor’s is taking the hardest line among ratings firms on emerging markets as a global slowdown and political risk erode creditworthiness. Brown Brothers Harriman's Win Thin and Bloomberg's Ye Xie speak on...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Teddy bear bombs Ukraine teaches kids to avoid explosives
At a school in Mariupol close to the frontline with pro Russian separatists schoolchildren learn about various types of explosive devices
Bloomberg
U.K. Economist Wood Says BOE Shouldn't Raise Rates
Nov.02 -- Robert Wood, chief U.K. economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, explains why the Bank of England should not hike interest rates and how he sees the BOE's rate path going forward. He speaks with Bloomberg's Nejra Cehic on...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Pro EU protests continue in
For three days hundreds of pro-European Union protesters have been camping out tirelessly at Independence Square in Kiev CLEAN : Pro EU protests continue in on December 05, 2013 in Kiev, Ukraine (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: Positive Problem Solving
Positive problem solving is an essential factor to building resilience in our young children. Critical thinking, self-control, planning, persistence, and logical reasoning skills help kids solve problems and make appropriate decisions....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Play a Guessing Game
Play a guessing game with Bert and Ernie in this video. Video shows a game played by the two characters as Bert tries to guess what Ernie is doing.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Ad Hominem
In this video, Paul Henne describes the ad hominem fallacy, which is an informal fallacy that arises when someone attacks the person making the argument rather than their argument. He also describes the four subtypes of this fallacy. [8:10]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Denying the Antecedent
In this video, Matthew C. Harris explains the fallacy of denying the antecedent, the formal fallacy that arises from inferring the inverse of a conditional statement. He also explains why graduate students might also be humans. [3:35]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Introduction to Ad Hominem
In this video, Julianne Chung offers a brief introduction to ad hominem fallacies or fallacies of personal attack. She surveys six different types (abusive ad hominem, circumstantial ad hominem, tu quoque, guilt by association, genetic...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Begging the Question
In this video, Matthew C. Harris of Duke University explains the informal logical fallacy called begging the question and the associated concept of circular reasoning. [3:53]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Appeal to the People
In this video, Jordan MacKenzie discusses a type of informal fallacy known as the argumentum ad populum fallacy, or the appeal to the people fallacy. This fallacy occurs when one attempts to establish the truth of a conclusion by...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Affirming the Consequent
In this video, Matthew C. Harris explains the fallacy of affirming the consequent, the formal fallacy that arises from inferring the converse of an argument. [3:25]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fundamentals: Abductive Arguments
In this video, Geoff Pynn follows up on his introduction to critical thinking by exploring how abductive arguments give us reason to believe their conclusions. Good abductive arguments don't guarantee their conclusions, but give us very...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Queen Sara Explains Voting
Queen Sara and King Friday want to put a new piece of playground equipment in the playground, but they can only choose one - a swing or a slide. So, they explain the process of voting to Daniel Tiger and his friends and ask them to stop,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Straw Man Fallacy
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the straw man fallacy. This fallacy is committed whenever someone misrepresents an opponent's claim in arguing against it. [5:58]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Slippery Slope
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the slippery slope argument. This argument is that when one event occurs, other related events will follow, and this slippery slope will eventually...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Red Herring
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) introduces you to the red herring, a rhetorical device, and the fallacy that is often difficult to spot. A red herring occurs when something is introduced to an...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
In this video, Paul explains the post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc fallacy. This is an informal fallacy committed when a person reasons that because one event happened after another event, the first event caused the second. [5:41]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Equivocation
Joseph Wu (University of Cambridge) explains the fallacy of equivocation, the fallacy that occurs when the same term is used with different meanings in an argument. [6:29]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Fallacy of Division
In this video, Paul Henne describes the fallacy of division, the informal fallacy that arises when we assume that the parts of some whole must have the same properties as the whole they make up. [4:51]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Fallacy of Composition
In this video, Paul Henne describes the fallacy of composition, an informal fallacy that arises when we assume that some whole has the same properties as its parts. [3:58]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Fallacies: Formal and Informal Fallacies
In this video, Paul describes the distinction between formal and informal fallacies.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Brain Teasers: Forehead Numbers Brain Teaser
The perfect logicians are at it again.