pt. 1 : lecture 1. -- What are "tools of thinking"? -- lecture 2. Which tools of thinking are basic? -- lecture 3. Platonic intuition, memory, and reason -- lecture 4. Intuition, memory, and reason : problems -- lecture 5. Sense experience : a more modern take -- lecture 6. Observation and immediate inferences -- lecture 7. Further immediate inferences -- lecture 8. Categorical syllogisms -- lecture 9. Ancient logic in modern dress -- lecture 10. Systematic doubt and rational certainty -- lecture 11. The limits of sense experience -- lecture 12. Inferences demand relevant evidence.
pt. 2 : lecture 13. Proper inferences avoid equivocation -- lecture 14. Induction is slippery but unavoidable -- lecture 15. The scientific revolution -- lecture 16. Hypotheses and experiments : a first look -- lecture 17. How empirical is modern empiricism? -- lecture 18. Hypotheses and experiments : a closer look -- lecture 19. "Normal science" at mid-century -- lecture 20. Modern logic : truth tables -- lecture 21. Modern logic : sentential arguments -- lecture 22. Modern logic : predicate arguments -- lecture 23. Postmodern and New-age problems -- lecture 24. Rational empiricism in the 21st century.
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