This is Bad – Argumentation is not as negative as it seems

Capital Gains – Social Capital

Rhetorically Speaking – Introducing Rhetoric

A Battle of Wits – Logic and Dialectic

Going about it the right way – Ethical considerations

Give me one Good Reason – Argument as Reason Giving

Implications of what is Implied – Argument a Product and a Process

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It’s a Given – Assumption in Argumentation.

People Pleasing – Arguing for the Audience

Taking a stab at it – Conditions of Uncertainty

Feeling Justified – Justifying our Claims

Risky Business – Argumentation Involves Risks

Shall We Dance – An Interactive Process

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A Black-Tie Affair – Formal Argumentation

Pièce de résistance – Syllogism

The Right Conditions – Conditional Syllogism

Two Paths Diverge in a wood – Disjunctive syllogism

Speak from the heart – Informal Argumentation

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Do you want to go there? – Analysing Controversies

Ill be the judge of that – Arguments Explore the Uncertain

Not Seeing the Wood for the Trees – Types of Controversies

Staking Your Claim – Claims and their Categorisation

Do you have a Warrant? – Argumentation as a Process of Components

Chapter 4 Quiz

Lets Resolve this – Resolution in Arguments

So many issues – Organising the issues in complex arguments

The Map isn’t the Territory – Uses and limitations of Argument Models

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Getting your Ducks in a Row – Constructing Persuasive arguments

Know your Place – Topoi

Just in Case – Considerations in Case Construction

Game Set and Match – The Burden of Proof and Rejoinder

Opposing Forces – Strong and weak Arguments

Just Say When – Selecting the Amplitude in Arguments

Where shall I start? – Sequence in Arguments

Choices, choices, Patterns – The Tapestry of Argument

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Stuck in the Middle with You – Stasis

What are you on about? – Stasis Categories

Do you think that's air you're breathing? – Stasis and Topoi Matrix

Ships Passing in the Mist – Stasis and the Central Issues of an Argument

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A Sage for Every Age – Confucius Catalyst of Controversy and Champion of Merit

Bend Like a Reed – The Dynamics of Controversy

Defense as the best Offence – Attacking an Argument

Achilles Heel – Targeting your Approach.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Your Options in the Argument

If you can't find a way, make a way – Arranging the Attacks

From King Pyrrhus to Agincourt – Commitment to the Attack

Use the Force Luke – Considering Counter Arguments

Parry, Riposte – Refutation in Argumentation

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What you See is What you get – The Impact of Definition on Scope

A Slippery Heap – Clarity in our Definitions

Now that you put it that way – Figures of Speech

As Stipulated – Stipulative and Operational Definitions

Chapter 9 Quiz

Glossary

Chapter 10 Quiz

It’s for the Birds – Evidence the Cornerstone of Arguments

The Nitty Gritty – Speech-act Philosophy

It’s Written in the Stars – Different Types of Evidence

Familiar Friends – Types of Evidence Unpacked

Playing to the Crowd – Understanding your Audience

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Sorting the Puzzle Pieces – Patterns of Inference and Warrant

Is this Warranted? – Examples and Generalizations

Birds of a feather – Analogy

It’s Literally Like… Literal Analogies

The Winds of Change – Figurative Examples

Pointing the Finger – Sign Inferences

Of Cause and Consequence – Causal Inferences

Oh, How Common – Commonplaces and Form

Chapter 12 Quiz

A Rule of Thumb – Reasoning with Rules

What's it worth to you? – Arguing from Values

A House Divided – Dissociation

What was that again? – Recap

Chapter 13 Quiz

Between you and me – Spheres of Argument

Where's this coming from? – Migration of Arguments

Rocky Roads – Day-to-day exchanges

We Need to Have a Talk – Critical Conversations

We just don't Gel – Coalescent Argumentation

What a Weirdo – The Power of Perspectivism

Chapter 14 Quiz

No Backseat Driving – Public Policy

Tragedy of the Commons – Public Arguments

What Eases Me Pleases Me – Naive Theories of Attribution

Are you with us or against us? – A Centrist Perspective

Flying The Flag – Condensation Symbols

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The Logic of Logicality – Critical Thinking as a Tool

This is Meta – Metacognition

The Scoop on Scepticism

A Method in all the Madness – The Scientific Method

Making Provision – Science is Evolving and Provisional

Science and Schmience – Science and Pseudoscience

Little Boxes – Categorising and Labelling

Vested Interests – Emotional Investment

Missing in Action – Misinformation

Assumption – The Mother of all Mess-ups

Bricks, Sticks and Straw – The Logic behind Logic

Locomotion – Motivations

Navigating the Noise – Uncertainty in Decision-Making

To be or not to be – Being a Critical Thinker

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The Things that Compel Us – Beliefs and Emotions

What's in the Noggin? – The Human Brain

Needs that drive us – Psychological Needs

The Pleasure Trap – The Brains Rewards and Punishment System

There Can Be Only One – The Need for Control

Works Like a…. Charm? – Superstitious Thinking

It’s Simple – The Desire for Simplicity

Mining for Meaning – Meaning and Causality

The Steam in Self-Esteem – The Need for Self Esteem

A House Divided – Cognitive Dissonance

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Fair is Fair – Inner Senses

In Search of Morality – The Moral Sense

In League with Justice – The Sense of Justice

Me Myself and I – Sense of Identity

Sensing our Purpose – The Sense of Purpose

A Place in this World – The Sense of Belonging

Getting to the Essence – Essentialism

Chapter 18 Quiz

Seeing is Believing... or is it?

Through the looking glass – Senses and Perceptio

Abracadabra – Manipulating Flaws in Perception

But is it, Art? – Art and Perception

In the Eye of the Beholder – Perception and Representation

The Hear and Now – Hearing and Perceptions

Travelling at the Speed of Thought – Temporal Synchronisation

Blending of the Senses – Synaesthesia

Attention Tension – The limitations of Attention

Switch -Tasking – The Myth of Multitasking

Are you sure…? – Eyewitness Testimony

We are not in Kansas Anymore – The Reality Construct

Chapter 19 Quiz

So long and thanks for all the Memories

Vividness isn’t Veracity – Flashbulb Memories

Hey, that was my idea! – Source Amnesia

From what I can recall – Truth Amnesia

Confabulating Confessions – Forced Confabulation

Whodunnit ? – Multiple Perspectives

Reality as Fiction – False Memory Syndrome

What an Experience – False Experiences

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Keeping the dots close together – Pattern Recognition

Faces in the Clouds – Visual Pareidolia

Am I hearing Things? – Audio Pareidolia

Hyperactive Agents – Hyperactive Agency Detection and Insertion

Drill Down – Data Mining

Chapter 21 Quiz

Happily, Ever After – Rationalisations

In Two Minds – Cognitive Dissonance

It’s Only Logical – Argument in the Context of Logic

It’s Elementary Dear Watson – Deductive Reasoning

Induction Day – Inductive Reasoning

Chapter 22 Quiz

I'm not sure I follow – Non-Sequiturs

Wishful Thinking – Argument from Final Consequences

It’s the Rothschilds and the Illuminati – Conspiracy Theories

Squishing the dots together – Post hoc ergo propter hoc

In Cahoots – Correlation and Causation

Twisted Thinking – Logical Fallacies and Your Mental Health

Let's start somewhere – How to make use of Fallacies?

Chapter 23 Quiz

Tripping The Traps – A Glossary of Fallacies to Avoid

1. Bandwagon Effect

2. Straw Man Fallacy

3. False Cause Fallacy

4. Appeal to Emotion Fallacy

5. Slippery Slope Fallacy

6. Ad Hominem Fallacy

7. Tu quoque Fallacy

8. Personal Incredulity (Argument from Ignorance)

9. Special Pleading

10. The Loaded Question

11. Burden of proof logical fallacy

12. Ambiguity Fallacy

13. Appeal to Authority

14. Composition/Division Fallacy

15. No True Scotsman Fallacy (Appeal to Purity)

16. Genetic Fallacy

17. Black or White Fallacy

18. Begging the Question Fallacy

19. Appeal to Nature Fallacy

20. Anecdotal Fallacy

21. Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

22. The Fallacy Fallacy

Chapter 24 Quiz

Doing the Math's – Dealing with Innumeracy

Probing the Probability – Probability and Randomness

Lucky Numbers – The Law of Large Numbers

Out in the Cold – Cold Reading

Retrofitting the Future – Retroactive Hindsight Bias

Inventing Order out of Chaos – The Clustering Illusion

The Drunken Walk of Randomness – Regression to the Mean

Diagnosis and Destiny – Statistics

Chapter 25 Quiz

Thing 1 and Thing 2 – System One and System Two Thinking

The Anchoring Bias

Confirmation Bias

The Backfire Effect

Declinism

Just World Hypothesis

Sunk Cost Fallacy

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

The Barnum Effect

The Framing Effect

In-Group Bias

Fundamental Attribution Error

Placebo Effect

Halo Effect

The Bystander Effect

The Availability Heuristic

Belief Bias

Groupthink

Optimism Bias

Reactance

Curse of Knowledge

Self-Serving Bias

Negativity Bias

Pessimism Bias

The Spotlight Effect

Chapter 26 Quiz

A Deluge of Delusion – The Prevalence of Delusions

Is this thing on? – Impaired Reality Testing

Mightier Than Thou – Grandiose delusions

The Chosen One – Personal Empowerment Delusions

A Lost Cause – Delusions of Hopelessness

We are in This Together – Group Delusions

You Will Be Assimilated – Mass Delusions

Flight Risk – Community Flight Panic

Burn Them – Symbolic Community Scares

Wish Upon a Star – Collective Wish Fulfilment

This is Catchy – Mass Hysteria

I heard it from a friend, who heard it from a friend – Urban Legends

Chapter 27 Quiz

A methodical approach – Science as a Methodology

Stemming the Tide – Epistemology

It’s Only Natural – Philosophical Naturalism

A Loaded Buffet – The Multiple Methods of Science

Brave New Worlds – Paradigms

Short Back and Sides – Occam’s Razor

Of Evolution and Revolution – Science as Ever Evolving

Chapter 28 Quiz

Dark Marketing – Deceptive Marketing Tactics

Day-to-Day Marketing Strategies – Persuasive Marketing strategies

Boxes to the Left – Leftmost Digit Bias

Keeping up with the Joneses – Status Anxiety

The Heart of Darkness – Motivated Misinformation

I have Your Inheritance… Scamming.

Chapter 29 Quiz

A Battle for the Ages

Out of your Cherry-Picking Mind – Incoherence and Cherry-Picking

Walking a fine line

Mistakes Were Made – When Science gets it wrong.

Chapter 30 Quiz

For the Good of the People – Scientific Literacy in the Post-Truth Era

I saw it on Facebook – Trustworthy Sources

Unconfirmed Reports – Seeking Disconfirming Information

Hear ye, hear ye – The Difficulties with Science Journalism

Weighed in the Scales and Found Wanting – False Balance

Consensus Sapientium – Democracy and the Agreement of the Wise

Chapter 31 Quiz

Walking The Tightrope – Creating Balance through Argumentation and Metacognition

For Real? – Insight, Creativity and Knowledge

Staying on Rails – A Social Contract

A Not So Brave New World – A World Without Argumentation

Oh Lord It’s hard to be Humble – Cognitive Humility

The Mother of All Games – The Infinite Game

Nudge, Nudge

Chapter 32 Quiz