The Philosophy Room

## Episode Summary Dr. Arthur Bellinger sits down with Bo Bennett — professor, author, and creator of logicallyfallacious.com — to dig into whether learning fallacy names actually sharpens your thinking or just arms you with labels to throw at opponents. The conversation's sharpest moment: Bennett's detailed example of how citing the *Journal of Medicine* is routinely — and wrongly — called an appeal to authority, exposing how fallacy-naming gets weaponized to shut down good arguments. The real takeaway is that critical thinking is a continuous practice of self-examination, not a taxonomy to deploy in debate. ## What You'll Learn - Why knowing a fallacy's *name* isn't en...