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Friday |
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1/9/23 |
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1/13/23 |
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Assignments Due |
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Lectures & Notes |
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Video Lectures |
Intro Welcome Lecture (Passcode: $Xx*v0UE) What is Critical Thinking Anyway? (Passcode: 7+3RW4ZU) |
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Canvas Module 1 |
First Things First: The
Basics Three things you can do with a claim. Arguments vs. Shouting Matches But what’s the issue? Don’t get over your skis Claims, beliefs, propositions, sentences
and statements Hot Sauce on Scrambled Eggs: Subjective/ Objective Claims Fact and Opinion Cognitive Biases Rational Choice |
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Week 2 |
1/16/23 |
1/17/23 |
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1/20/23 |
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day (No Classes) |
Last Day to Add/Drop |
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Assignments Due |
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Quiz 1 |
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Lectures & Notes |
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Video Lectures |
Logic: Formal and Informal (Password: aJ??M09X) |
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Canvas Module 2 |
Two Kinds of Reasoning Arguments: General Features Conclusions Used as
Premises Unstated Premises and
Conclusions Two Kinds of Arguments Deductive Arguments &
Inductive Arguments Telling the Difference
Between Deductive and Inductive Arguments Credence and Beyond a
Reasonable Doubt What Are Not Arguments
(e.g. Pictures) |
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Week 3 |
1/23/23 |
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1/27/23 |
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Note: Sunday 1/29/23 Last Day to Apply for graduation
at the end of Spring 2023 term |
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Assignments Due |
Short Writing Assignment 1: Paraphrase |
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Quiz 2 |
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Lectures & Notes |
Argument
Analysis: Argument for Vegetarianism Slides
from Capital Community College PowerPoint |
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Video Lectures |
Logic - Argument Analysis: Argument for
Vegetarianism (Passcode: 9veA!LD%) Diagraming
Sentences (Passcode: None) |
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Canvas Module 3 |
Critical Thinking in Action |
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Week 4 |
1/30/23 |
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2/3/23 |
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Assignments Due |
Short Writing Assignment 2: Diagram Sentences |
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Quiz 3 |
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Lectures &
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Definitions:
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions Critically
Thinking about Questions |
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Video Lectures |
Obscurity and Clear Thinking 1: (OVAD)
Video (Passcode: LB71^rAv) Obscurity and Clear Thinking 2: Natural
Kinds, Nec & Suf
Video (Passcode: A@6zZih3) Obscurity and Clear Thinking 3:
Questions Video (Passcode: cRuRV^9s) Obscurity and Clear Thinking 4:
Language and Ontology Video (Passcode: 4aQ^5DHY) Obscurity
and Clear Thinking 5: Mean, Median and Mode |
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Canvas Module 4 |
Obscurity and Clear
Thinking Vagueness and Ambiguity Kinds of Ambiguity Definitions: Purposes and
Kinds Necessary & Sufficient
Conditions Paradox of Analysis/ Open
Concepts Writing Argumentative
Essays |
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Week 5 |
2/6/23 |
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2/10/23 |
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Assignments Due |
Short Writing Assignment 3 Writing Essays Questions Tips for Answering Essay Questions FIU
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Exam 1 |
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Lectures &
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Video Lectures |
Logical Positivism and Emotivism (Passcode: skP%5=1d) |
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Canvas Module 5 |
Positivism and Meaningful Assertions Assertions and Pseudo Assertions Truth Conditions Alternative Theories of Truth -
Reasonableness |
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Week 6 |
2/13/23 |
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2/17/23 |
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Assignments Due |
Short Writing Assignment 4: Identify Ambiguity |
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Quiz 4 |
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Lectures & Notes
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Relativism and Ethical Absolutism Relativism and Absolutism in Science |
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Video Lectures |
Relativism in Ethics - CT (Passcode: None) Relativism
and Absolutism in Science – CT (Passcode: *dT2r#R5) |
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Canvas Module 6 |
Relativism
and Absolutism |
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Week 7 |
2/20/23 |
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2/24/23 |
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Assignments Due |
Short Writing Assignment 5: Identify Premises and Conclusions #1 |
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Quiz 5 |
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Lectures &
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Rhetorical Devices and Questions |
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Video Lectures |
Rhetorical Devices and Loaded Questions (Passcode: !WMeE@7V) |
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Canvas Module 7 |
Rhetoric Devices Rhetorical Devices:
Euphemisms and Dysphemisms Rhetorical Devices: Weaselers Rhetorical Devices: Downplayers Rhetorical Devices:
Stereotypes Rhetorical Devices: Innuendo Rhetorical Devices: Loaded
Questions Rhetorical Devices:
Ridicule/Sarcasm Rhetorical Devices:
Hyperbole Questions: Nonsense Questions and
Category Mistakes Questions and Context/
Paradigm Presumption Complex Questions |
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Week 8 |
2/27/23 |
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3/3/23 |
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Spring Break (No Classes) |
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Assignments Due |
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Lectures & Notes |
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Video Lectures |
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Canvas Module |
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Week 9 |
3/6/23 |
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3/10/23 |
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Assignments Due |
Short Writing Assignment 6: Identify Premises and Conclusions #2 |
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Quiz 6 |
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Lectures & Notes |
Fallacies of Relevance (Chapter) |
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Video Lectures |
Fallacies of Relevance (Passcode: None) |
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Canvas Module 8 |
Relevance Fallacies Argumentum Ad Hominem Straw Man False Dilemma The Perfectionist Fallacy The Line-Drawing Fallacy Misplacing the Burden of
Proof Begging the Question
(Assuming What You are Trying to Prove) Appeals To Emotion (e.g.
Pity, Fear, Outrage, etc.) |
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Week 10 |
3/13/23 |
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3/17/23 |
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Assignments Due |
Short Writing Assignment 7: Fragment and Schematize |
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Quiz 7 |
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Lectures & Notes |
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Video Lectures |
Deductive
Arguments I: Categorical Logic (Passcode: &4##T7Zz) |
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Canvas Module 9 |
Deductive Arguments I:
Categorical Logic Categorical Claims Venn Diagrams Translation into Standard
Form Categorical Claims The Word "Only"
in a Sentence The Squares of Opposition Implication, Contradiction,
Contraries and Sub-contraries |
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Week 11 |
3/20/23 |
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3/24/23 |
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Last Day to Drop with a DR
Grade |
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Assignments Due |
Short Writing Assignment 8: Fragment and Schematize 2 |
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Exam 2 |
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Lectures &
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Categorical Syllogisms and Checking for
Validity by Using Rules |
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Video Lectures |
Categorical Syllogisms and Checking for Validity by Using Rules (Passcode: 5E.nU+6W) |
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Canvas Module 10 |
Deductive Arguments II:
Categorical Logic The Venn Diagram Method of
Testing for Validity The Rules Method of Testing
for Validity |
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Week 12 |
3/27/23 |
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3/31/23 |
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Assignments Due |
Short Writing Assignment 9: Job Interview |
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Quiz 8 |
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Lectures &
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Video Lectures |
Causal Reasoning and Arguments (Passcode: T=4jc=$h) |
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Canvas Module 11 |
Causal
Arguments and Inductive Fallacies |
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Week 13 |
4/3/23 |
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4/7/23 |
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Assignments Due |
Paper 1a (Upload to Canvas before Midnight) |
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Quiz 9 |
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Lectures &
Notes |
Logical
Positivism and Emotivism (Same as Before
– Week 5) |
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Video Lectures |
Introduction to Ethics (Passcode: None) Divine Command Theory (Passcode: None) |
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Canvas Module 12 |
Three Types of Ethical Reasons Virtue
Ethics Consequentialist
Ethics Deontological
Ethics Divine Command Theory |
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Week 14 |
4/10/23 |
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4/14/23 |
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Assignments Due |
Peer Review of Paper 1 (Upload to Canvas before Midnight) |
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Quiz 10 |
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Lectures &
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Aesthetic
Reasoning: Judgments of Beauty Aesthetic Reasoning: Judgement in Art |
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Video Lectures |
Aesthetic
Reasoning: Judgements of Theories of Beauty (Passcode: u4fxK!rR) Aesthetic Reasoning: Judgement in Art (Passcode: 3Fiu=Px.) |
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Canvas Module 13 |
6 Types of Aesthetic Reasons Mimetic
Theory Formalism Expressive
Theory Romanticism Media
Formalism Institutional
Theories of Art |
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Week 15 |
4/17/23 |
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4/21/23 |
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Short Writing Assignment 10: Extemporaneous Writing |
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Assignments Due |
Paper 1b (Upload to Canvas before Midnight) |
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Lectures &
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Video Lectures |
Legal Reasoning (Passcode: MHB$pE6o) |
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Canvas Module 14 |
Legal Reasoning Applying
the Law Appeal
to Precedent What
Should the Law be? Justifying Laws: Four Perspectives Reasoning
before a Judge and/or Jury in General Language of Law -
Ambiguities and Interpretation |
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Week 16 |
4/24/23 |
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4/28/23 |
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Final Exam Week |
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Assignments Due |
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Lectures & Notes |
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Video Lectures |
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Canvas Module |
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Week 17 |
5/1/23 |
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5/3/23 |
5/3/23 |
5/5/23 |
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Final Grades Due |
Complete grade report available to students by web |
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Lectures &
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Video Lectures |
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Canvas Module |
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