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Fallacy Detective and Thinking Toolbox

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The Fallacy Detective "features thirty-eight lessons on how to recognize bad reasoning."

It has a Christian view of logic, is self-teaching, and is written for ages 12 through adult. It includes The Fallacy Detective Game. The Thinking Toolbox is also by the Bluedorn brothers, Nathaniel and Hans. It has thirty-five lessons to help build your reasoning skills. The Thinking Toolbox features a Christian view of logic is self-teaching, written for ages 13 through adult, and can be used with The Fallacy Detective.

Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks Logo 3/05 The Fallacy Detective was chosen by Cathy Duffy as on of her "100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum" in the miscellaneous category.

12/07 One of our daughters called to tell us that studying Fallacy Detective and Thinking Toolbox in high school helped her in her English class at college. When I read the paper she turned in, I was impressed! She knows how to find, analyze, and shoot down faulty reasoning and arguments. We're "prescribing" this for all of our homeschooled children.

The Fallacy Detective Deluxe Bundle

By Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn

The Fallacy Detective Deluxe Bundle includes one of each of the following:

Fallacy Detective Third Edition 9780974531533
Thinking Toolbox 9780974531519
Logic in 100 Minutes Workshop DVD 9780974531526

ISBN-13:
9780974531533db

List $57.00

Sale Price $49.95

The Fallacy Detective Third Edition

By Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn, Illustrated by Rob Corley and Tim Hodge

Newly updated in 2009, The Fallacy Detective is now in its 3rd edition. It covers logical fallacies and propaganda techniques.

There are exercises with an answer key.

It introduces the special pleading and slippery slope fallacies.

There are many more illustrations and cartoons such as Peanuts, Dilbert, and Calvin and Hobbes.

It also includes "The Fallacy Detective Game"

Ages 12 to adult

9780974531533

List $22.00

Sale Price $20.95

The Thinking Toolbox

By Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn

To look at sample pages on the publisher's website: Sample Lesson from The Thinking Toolbox

ISBN-13:
9780974531519

List $22.00

Sale Price $20.95

Logic in 100 Minutes Workshop DVD

By Hans Bluedorn and Nathaniel Bluedorn

In the first of two fifty-minute workshops,, Learning to Think Logically, Hans and Nathaniel show how to spot propaganda and fallacies on TV and the Internet. They introduce ways parents and students can combat illogic around them. Common errors in reasoning are explained along with recommended books for learning more about logic.

In the second fifty-minute workshop, Using Your Thinking Toolbox, Hans and Nathaniel show how to look at both sides of a controversial topic and decide which is right. Logic can make boring subjects fun and memorable. Topics include: how to spot a scientific hoax, opposing viewpoints in history, and tools for scientific thinking.

The Logic in 100 Minutes DVD includes workshop handouts to print.

For ages 10 to adult.

ISBN-13:
9780974531526

List $15.00

Sale Price $13.95