Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week 1

1/8/2024

1/9/2024

1/10/2024

1/11/2024

1/12/2024

 

 Classes Begin

 

 

 

 

Assignments

 

 

 

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Welcome

What is Critical Thinking Anyway?

 

Video Lectures

(Welcome to Philosophy Lectures… Not required)

Intro Welcome Lecture Part 1

Intro Welcome Lecture Part 2

 

CT Lecture 1 -  What is Critical Thinking Anyway

Canvas Readings

 

Week 2

1/15/2024

1/16/2024

1/17/2024

1/18/2024

1/19/2024

 

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

University Closed

Last Day to Drop without Incurring a Financial Liability

 

 

 

Assignments

 

 

 

 

 Quiz 1

Lectures & Notes

Logic: Formal and Informal

 

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 2 & 3 – Logic: Formal and Informal

Canvas Readings

 

Week 3

1/22/2024

1/23/2024

1/24/2024

1/25/2024

1/26/2024

 

 

 

 

Assignments

 Short Writing Assignment 1:

Paraphrase

 

 

 

Quiz 2

Lectures & Notes

Argument Analysis: Argument for Vegetarianism

Diagraming Sentences

Slides from Capital Community College PowerPoint

 

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 4 - Argument Analysis

CT Lecture 5 – Diagramming Sentences

Canvas Readings

 

Week 4

1/29/2024

1/30/2024

1/31/2024

2/1/2024

2/2/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments

Short Writing Assignment 2:

Diagram Sentences

Quiz 3

Lectures & Notes

Obscurity and Clear Thinking

Definitions: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions

Critically Thinking about Questions

Language and Ontology

Mean, Median Mode

 

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 6 - Obscurity and Clear Thinking

CT Lecture 7  - Definitions: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions

CT Lecture 8  - Critically Thinking about Questions

CT Lecture 9  - Language and Ontology

CT Lecture 10 - Mean, Median Mode 

Canvas Readings

 

Week 5

2/5/2024

2/6/2024

2/7/2024

2/8/2024

2/9/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments

Short Writing Assignment 3

Writing Essays Questions

 

Tips for Answering Essay Questions

 

FIU | Tips to Answering Essay Questions Narrated PowerPoint

Exam 1

Lectures & Notes

Logical Positivism and Emotivism

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 11 – Logical Positivism and Emotivism

Canvas Readings

 

Week 6

2/12/2024

2/13/2024

2/14/2024

2/15/2024

2/16/2024

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments

Short Writing Assignment 4: Identify  Ambiguity

 

 

 

Quiz 4

 

Lectures & Notes

Ethical Relativism and Ethical Absolutism

Relativism and Absolutism in Science

 

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 12 – Ethical Relativism and Ethical Absolutism 

CT Lecture 13 – Scientific Relativism and Scientific Absolutism 

Canvas Readings

 

Week 7

2/19/2024

2/20/2024

2/21/2024

2/22/2024

2/23/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments

Short Writing Assignment 5:

Identify Premises and Conclusions #1

Quiz 5

Lectures & Notes

Rhetorical Devices and Questions  

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 14 – Rhetorical Devices

Canvas Readings

 

Week 8

2/26/2024

2/27/2024

2/28/2024

2/29/2024

3/1/2024

 

Spring Break – University Closed

Assignments

Lectures & Notes

 

Video Lectures

 

Canvas Readings

 

Week 9

3/4/2024

3/5/2024

3/6/2024

3/7/2024

3/8/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments

Short Writing Assignment 6:

Identify Premises and Conclusions #2

Quiz 6

Lectures & Notes

CT Lecture 15 Fallacies of Relevance: (Red Herrings)

 

Fallacies of  Relevance (Chapter) 

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 15 – Fallacies of Relevance

Canvas Readings

 

Week 10

3/11/2024

3/12/2024

3/13/2024

3/14/2024

3/15/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments

Short Writing Assignment 7:

Fragment and Schematize

Quiz 7

Lectures & Notes

Deductive Logic I: Categorical Clams

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 16 - Deductive Arguments I: Categorical Claims

Canvas Readings

 

Week 11

3/18/2024

3/19/2024

3/20/2024

3/21/2024

3/22/2024

 

 Last Day to Drop with a DR

 

 

 

 

Assignments

Short Writing Assignment 8:

Fragment and Schematize 2

Exam 2

Lectures & Notes

Deductive Logic 2: Categorical Syllogisms and Checking for Validity by Using Rules

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 17 - Deductive Logic 2: Categorical Syllogisms and Checking for Validity by Using Rules

 

Canvas Readings

 

Week 12

3/25/2024

3/26/2024

3/27/2024

3/28/2024

3/29/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments

Short Writing Assignment 9:

Job Interview

Quiz 8

Lectures & Notes

Causal Arguments and Inductive Fallacies 

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 18 - Causal Arguments and Inductive Fallacies

Canvas Readings

 

Week 13

4/1/2024

4/2/2024

4/3/2024

4/4/2024

4/5/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments

Paper 1a

(Upload to Canvas before Midnight)

 

 

 

Quiz 9

Lectures & Notes

Logical Positivism and Emotivism (Same as Before – Week 5)

Divine Command Theory

Introduction to Ethics

 

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 19 - Metaethics: Logical Positivism and Emotivism 

CT Lecture 20 - Metaethics: Divine Command Theory

CT Lecture 21 – Introduction to Ethics

Canvas Readings

 

Week 14

4/8/2024

4/9/2024

4/10/2024

4/11/2024

4/12/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments

Peer Review of Paper 1

(Upload to Canvas before Midnight)

 

 

 

 Quiz 10

Lectures & Notes

Aesthetic Reasoning: Judgments of Beauty

Aesthetic Reasoning: Judgement in Art

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 22 - Aesthetic Reasoning: Judgments of Beauty

CT Lecture 23 - Aesthetic Reasoning: Judgements in Art

 

Canvas Readings

 

Week 15

4/15/2024

4/16/2024

4/17/2024

4/18/2024

4/19/2024

 

Assignments

Paper 1b (Upload to Canvas before Midnight)

 

Short Writing Assignment 10: Extemporaneous

Lectures & Notes

Legal Reasoning

Language of Law - Ambiguities and Interpretation

 

Video Lectures

CT Lecture 24 – Legal Reasoning

Canvas Readings

 

Week 16

4/22/2024

4/23/2024

4/24/2024

4/25/2024

4/26/2024

 

Final Exam Week

Assignments

 

 

 

 

 

Lectures & Notes

 

Video Lectures

 

Canvas Readings

 

Week 17

4/29/2024

4/30/2024

5/1/2024

5/2/2024

5/3/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments

 

 

 

 

 

Lectures & Notes

 

Video Lectures

 

Canvas Readings