Critical Thinking  

Qualia Soup (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OLPL5p0fMg)

Read about fallacious appeals and practice with the exercises that follow. (San Jose State University)

• Misdirected and Emotional Appeals
• Generalizations
• Argumentum Ad Hominem (argument against the person)
• Post Hoc Reasoning
• Burden of Proof
• Loaded Question
• Straw Man
• Circular Reasoning
• False Dilemma
• Unfair Fallacies

A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking (Greg R. Haskins) Especially useful are his Hindrances charts on pages 11-18.

Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts (Peter A. Facione)

Tutorials are available from Critical Thinking on the Web (AUSTHINK)