Introduction to Part II

Why Logical Fallacies? Introduction to Part II

To This Point

´ Fundamentals

´ Why I Need to Know This

´ The Climate Grieving Process

´ The Players

´ The Difference Between Argument and Conflict

´ Peer Review

´ Core Messaging

´ Open Listening

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And What to Do About It

´ Tactics are logical fallacies

´ Define Each

´ Provide Examples

´ Show where it happens

´ Tips and tricks to deal with it

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Guided by the Climate Grief Process

´ Each fallacy symptomatic of stage Denial of climate grief

´ Use knowledge of fallacies to focus Acceptance Depression approach to negotiation

´ Understand where people are in the process Bargaining Anger

´ Can adjust techniques accordingly

´ Help people through the process

´ Reach acceptance ´ Work together on solutions

´ Addressing climate change

´ Demands coordinated teamwork

´ Must guide folks through the process as quickly as possible

´ Not lose them along the way

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No Gaming at Acceptance Phase

´ Don’t observe fallacies at the acceptance phase

´ At this stage

´ Little or no gaming

´ Work towards solutions

´ Common throughout rest of the process

´ In a philosophy course we'd cover them all

´ Categorize them

´ Formal and informal

´ Pick away at the nuances

´ How is each one different from the others

´ Even when they are similar

´ Not the focus of this course

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Our Focus

´ Application in climate negotiation

´ Provide an overview

´ Provide you with tools to diagnose ´ Provide tips on how to deal with it

´ Don't require precision

´ Not academic course in logic

´ Only a reasonably accurate thumbnail sketch ´ A roadmap for action

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Phase Fallacy Response Denial/Depression/Anger Moving the Goalposts Straw Man Appealing to Hypocrisy Ad Homonym Argument Bargaining False Balance Irrelevant Expert False Dilemma Cherry Picking Circular Reasoning The Slippery Slope

Amalgamated Denial, Depression, and Anger

´ These phases are fluid

´ Folks go back and forth between them

´ Goal of climate negotiation

´ Move folks through this process as quickly as possible

´ Don’t lose them in the while we are at it

´ Folks who deny climate change

´ Depressed ´ Angry ´ Both

´ Afraid for

´ Job ´ Family ´ Future

´ Nowhere near acceptance

´ Negotiation tactics similar

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Bargaining is Positive

´ Bargaining is good

´ Close to acceptance ´ Tenuous

´ Demonstrates movement toward acceptance

´ Engaging in negotiation

´ Can either push ´ Back into anger, depression, and denial ´ Or forwards toward acceptance

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´ Apply fundamentals

´ Audience analysis ´ Core messaging ´ Open listening

´ Must be patient

´ Easy to get frustrated ´ Reply in kind ´ Anger leads to anger ´ Frustration to frustration

´ Patience can defuse the situation

´ Tear down the walls

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Why Logical Fallacies?

´ We observed these tactics in our climate work ´ Want to understand how to ´ Diagnose ´ Respond ´ Move towards true acceptance ´ Win over hearts and minds

´ And so we begin ...

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