DVC
PHIL 130 ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mr. Le to take DVC
students on a UC-Berkeley tour on Saturday, April 3, Spring Break,
to teach students about the opportunity to attend
summer school there. Classes at UC-Berkeley
are open to all during the summer. Please talk to Mr. Le if you are
interested in attending this tour.
Essay writing contest
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DIABLO
VALLEY COLLEGE: PHIL 130: CRITICAL THINKING
Week
01: Logic:
Inductive and Deductive Arguments
(Outline)
Week
01: Critical Thinking,
Ch. 01: Critical Thinking: It Matters (Outline)
Week
01:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 02: Critical Thinking and Clear Writing (Outline)
Week 01: Critical Thinking,
Ch.
03: Credibility (Outline)
Week 01:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 04: Persuasion Through Rhetoric (Outline)
Week 02:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 05: More Rhetorical Devices (Outline)
Week 02:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 06: More
Fallacies (Outline)
Week 02:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 07: The Anatomy and Varieties of Arguments (Outline)
Week 02:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 10: Inductive
Arguments (Outline)
Week 02:
Logic Practice Exam
Logic Practice Exam Key
Week 02: Noam
Chomsky,
"A
Propaganda Model" in Manufacturing Consent (Outline)
Week 02: Noam
Chomsky, Media Control: The
Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Week 03:
NO CLASS, LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
Week 04: Exam 1
Week 05: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book
I,
Book II,
Book
X (Eudemonia) (Outline)
Week 05: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book VIII,
Book IX (Relationships)
Week 06:
Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness, Ch. 2: Sources of Happiness
(Text)
Week 06: Eric
Weiner, Geography of Happiness, Ch. 2 Switzerland (Text)
Week 07: Ethics:
Introduction to Ethical Theories (Outline)
Week 07: Ethics:
Ethical Dilemma
Week 07: Ethics:
Jeremy Bentham on Utility (Text)
Week 07: Ethics:
John S. Mill on
Utilitarianism (Text)
Week 07: Ethics:
Immanuel Kant on the Categorical Imperative (Text)
Week 08:
Gender and Feminist Ethics:
Do
Sex and Gender Roles Burden Women more than Men?
Week
08: Gender and Feminist Ethics: Carol Gilligan,
In a Different Voice
Week
09: Exam 2
Week 10: Spring Break
Week 11: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 5: The Roots of Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week 11: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 8: What's Wrong with Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week 11: Religion: Steven Jay
Gould, "Non-overlapping Magisteria" (Text)
Week 11: Religion: Dalai Lama,
"Buddhism, Christianity, and Prospects for World Religions"
(Text)
Week 11: Religion:
Ch.
6.1: Arguments for the Existence of God (Outline)
Week 12: Religion:
Ch. 6.2: The Problem of Evil (Outline)
Week 13: Plato, Republic
(Outline)
Week 13: Plato,
Republic,
Book VII: Allegory of the Cave
Week 13: Aristotle,
Politics (Outline)
Week 13: Aristotle,
Politics, Book IV: Constitutional Systems
Week 14: Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Ch. 13, The Natural Condition
Week 14: Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Ch. 14, Laws of Nature
Week 14: John Locke,
The Second Treatise on Government
Week 14: James Madison,
"Federalist Paper No. 10"
Week 14: American Political Thought:
John Adams, Dissent of the Pennsylvania Minority,
Richard Henry Lee (Text)
Week 15: Benjamin
Barber, Strong Democracy, Preface, 2003 edition (Text)
Week 15: Benjamin
Barber, Strong Democracy, Ch. 1: Thin Democracy: Politics as Zookeeping
(Text)
Week 15: Benjamin Barber,
Strong Democracy, Ch. 4: The Psychological Frame: Apolitical Man
(Text)
Week 15: T. Le,
"Human Nature, Liberal Democracy, and Strong
Democracy" (Text)
Week 16: Benjamin Barber,
Jihad vs. Mc World, Ch. 7: Television and MTV:
Mc World's Noisy Soul" (Text)
Week 16: Benjamin Barber, Consumed, Chapter 1 (Text),
Chapter 3 (Text),
Chapter 5 (Text)
Week 16: Review for
Final Exam
Week 17: Final Exam
(Saturday, May 22)
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