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 DE ANZA COLLEGE: PHIL 004: CRITICAL THINKING (SPRING, 2009)
  Week 01/02: Logic: Inductive and Deductive Arguments (Outline)
  Week 01/02: Critical Thinking, Ch. 01: Critical Thinking: It Matters (Outline)
  Week 01/02: Critical Thinking, Ch. 02: Critical Thinking and Clear Writing (Outline)
  Week 01/02: Critical Thinking, Ch. 03: Credibility (Outline)
  Week 01/02: Critical Thinking, Ch. 04: Persuasion Through Rhetoric (Outline)
  Week 01/02: Critical Thinking, Ch. 05: More Rhetorical Devices (Outline)
  Week 01/02: Critical Thinking, Ch. 06: More Fallacies (Outline)
  Week 01/02: Critical Thinking, Ch. 07: The Anatomy and Varieties of Arguments (Outline)
  Week 01/02: Critical Thinking, Ch. 10: Inductive Arguments (Outline)
  Week 02: Noam Chomsky, "A Propaganda Model" in Manufacturing Consent (Outline)
  Week 02: Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
  Week 02: Plato, Republic, Book VII: Allegory of the Cave
  Week 03: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book I, Book II (Eudemonia) (Outline)
  Week 03: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book VIII, Book IX (Relationships)
  Week 03: Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness, Ch. 2: Sources of Happiness (Text)
  Week 03: Eric Weiner, Geography of Happiness, Ch. 2 Switzerland (Text)
  Week 04: Gender Roles: Do Sex and Gender Roles Burden Women more than Men?
  Week 04: Gender Roles: Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice
  Week 05: Ethics: Introduction to Ethical Theories (Outline)
  Week 05: Ethics: Ethical Dilemma
  Week 05: Ethics: John S. Mill on Utilitarianism (Outline)
  Week 05: Ethics: Jeremy Bentham on Utility (Text)
  Week 05: Ethics: Immanuel Kant on the Categorical Imperative (Outline)
  Week 06: Religion: Arguments for the Existence of God (Outline)
  Week 06: Religion: The Problem of Evil (Outline)
  Week 06: Religion: Richard Dawkins, Ch. 5: The Roots of Religion, The God Delusion
  Week 06: Religion: Richard Dawkins, Ch. 8: What's Wrong with Religion, The God Delusion
  Week 06: Religion: Steven Jay Gould, "Non-overlapping Magisteria" (Outline)
  Week 06: Religion: Dalai Lama, "Buddhism, Christianity, and Prospects for World Religions"
  Week 08: Mid-term
  Week 09: Plato, Republic (Outline)
  Week 09: Aristotle, Politics (Outline)
  Week 09: Aristotle, Politics, Book IV: Constitutional Systems
  Week 10: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Ch. 13, The Natural Condition (Outline)
  Week 10: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Ch. 14, Laws of Nature (Outline)
  Week 10: John Locke, The Second Treatise on Government (Outline)
  Week 10: James Madison, "Federalist Paper No. 10"
  Week 10: Benjamin Barber, Strong Democracy, Preface, 2003 edition (Text)
  Week 10: Benjamin Barber, Strong Democracy, Ch. 1: Thin Democracy: Politics as Zookeeping (Text) (Outline)
  Week 10: Benjamin Barber, Strong Democracy, Ch. 4: The Psychological Frame: Apolitical Man (Text) (Outline)
  Week 11: Economy: Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. Mc World, Ch. 7: Television and MTV: Mc World's Noisy Soul" (Text)
  Week 11: Economy: Benjamin Barber, Consumed, Chapter 1 (Text)
  Week 11: Economy: Benjamin Barber, Consumed, Chapter 3 (Text)
  Week 11: Economy: Benjamin Barber, Consumed, Chapter 5 (Text)
  Week 12: Final Exam