Critically Minded Podcast Network

About Critically Minded Podcast Network

These three podcast series present critical thinking in a language-learner-based approach. Although it is aimed at English language learners, they can be enjoyed by anyone who wants to learn about the basics of critical thinking in a clear, systematic and concise way. Critically Minded (12 episodes) is concerned with critical thinking skills and details various argumentative organizations and the language used to convey them. The language level is lower intermediate. Dialogically Minded (14 episodes) presents the discourse markers that are used to express critical dispositions in academic, professional and civic life. Rationally Minded (24 planned episodes) is a gameshow format program in which guests are, ostensibly, challenged to identify types of fallacies by listening to sort skits. Listeners will learn about a variety of fallacies and the language commonly used to respond to them. Critically Minded Network does all this–and more–in a fun and lighthearted way!

Publisher

David Gann

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 May 2026

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Oct 2026

   Rationally Minded Podcast Episode 05: Undistributed Middle and Quiz 1

   Minoru Itoh is a senior faculty member at Tokyo University of Science. Dr. Itoh is also Dean of the Graduate School and is also involved in teacher training. —————————————————————————– Dave: Welcome back to Rationally Minded Podcast. Irrational or poor patterns of reasoning are called fallacies. Each week, we invite an EFL educator and expert critical […]

2. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Dialogically Minded Podcast Episode 07: Clarification and Confirmation

   David: You are listening to Dialogically Minded. Dialogical Discourse for Second Language Learners. In this program we explore the language used in public, civic, and academic discussion for the purpose of achieving various communication goals. Hi Jennie. Jennie: Hi David. So what fascinating facet of dialogic discourse are we ever so eruditely edifying our listeners with today? […]

3. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Critically Minded Podcast Episode 08.2: Conditional Statements and Hypothetical Premises 2

   Dave: You are listening to Critically Minded.Nick: The podcast for English learners who want to become better critical thinkers. We’re your hosts, Nick-Dave: And Dave. In an earlier episode, we were discussing conditional statements and hypothetical premises. Nick: We explained that hypothetical premises are a kind of conditional statement that makes cause-and-effect predictions about future outcomes. We gave examples […]