I would honestly recommend a few books from the modern rationalist movement. Logic and rational thinking has evolved a lot since the days of Aristotle, and also a lot since the basic theories of rhetoric and logical fallacies taught in classical university courses. The rationalists are an interesting group; not everyone agrees with their values but they have some of the best techniques out there for actually learning to make rationality and logic part of your daily thought process. Some recommendations: The Scout Mindset, by Julia Galef How to Actually Change Your Mind, and also The Sequences by Eliezer Yudkowsky Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Yudkowsky as well Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman And for more advanced reading, Reason and Persons, by Derek Parfit (widely considered one of the most important books on ethics in the last century) More on reddit.com

If anyone is interested in this, I highly suggest taking a symbolic logic in philosophy class at your local university. We learned about all of these fallacies and, more or less, how to show someone they are full of shit on paper. It was awesome. More on reddit.com

In my first week of college, in my Logic I class, a student asked : “Are we going to learn about fallacies?” The teacher, slightly puzzled, answered : “Fallacies? Not really. They don’t have much to do with the study of logic, much less the study of philosophy, for that matter.” That sums up how I feel about this post. More on reddit.com

This needs to be taught in school, but where would it fit in a standard cirriculum? History/ Civics? More on reddit.com