Reames and Shermer discuss:
What is rhetoric?
How has rhetoric changed her life?
Rhetoric vs. facts (rhetorical truths vs. empirical truths)
Is the point of reason to understand reality or to persuade? (Hugo Mercier/Dan Sperber, The Enigma of Reason)
Canons of rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery
“Through thinking rhetorically about our ideological commitments it is possible for people from radically different orientations to have different, better, and more productive conversation.”
Logos (authority), pathos (feelings), ethos (ethics), hubris (pride)
Bullshitters vs. liars
What is reason?
Induction and deduction
What is truth?
Can you reason people out of beliefs they didn’t reason themselves into?
Thinking rhetorically rather than ideologically
Thinking metaphorically: “war on poverty”, “government as family” (George Lakoff)
Thought and language
Thought, language, and ideology
How language is processed (thoughts vs. pictures)
How to disagree with people/debate hot issues (guns, abortion, immigration)
Culture wars: war between two different cultures—liberal and conservative
How to have impossible conversations
Toulmin scheme: data, claim, warrant, backing, qualifier, rebuttal
Facts and values
Value hierarchy
Warrant: linking data to a claim
Syllogistic reasoning/deduction
Conspiracy theories and why people believe them
Birtherism and Trutherism.
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