TY  - SOUND
AU  - Hall,James
ED  - Teaching Company.
TI  - Tools of thinking: understanding the world through experience and reason 
T2  - The great courses
SN  - 1598030841
AV  - CD BF 441 .H35 2005 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chantilly, VA
PB  - Teaching Co.
KW  - Thought and thinking
KW  - Empiricism
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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; Lectures 13-24 of 24 presented by Professor James Hall, University of Richmond
N2  - Twenty four separate lectures about the human thought process; "The purpose of this course is to trace out in a semi-historical way how modern rational empiricism has arrived at its tool kit for thinking (a tool kit particularly well modeled by modern natural science but also employed in a wide variety of other, everyday, enterprises)"--P. 1
ER  -