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