Spot the Logical Fallacy Party!

A nifty idea for those who like a little reason in their politics. Carlos Mariscal of Duke tells us why:

While I was watching the convention this week (and last week as well, actually), it astounded me at how often the speakers would resort to obvious logical fallacies. I counted five false dichotomies and four straw men within the Sarah Palin speech alone. As a result, I’ve decided to throw a ‘Spot the Logical Fallacy’ party during the first debate September 26. It occurs to me that this would be a good way of showing the use of philosophical training and a fun way to reach out to the community. So, I’d like to throw the idea out to the Internet in the hopes that a few philosophy departments, clubs, or meet up groups will also decide to throw parties of their own.

Katerina and I will definitely throw our own, and we’ll post on the fallacious reasoning that will inevitably abound (I suspect a Palin-Biden debate will top all fallacies!).