Instructor

Sean Martin
smartin@santarosa.edu
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Course Syllabus

Study Resources: Practice Quizzes, Chapter Outlines, etc.

Chapter One Links

Standards and Barriers to Critical Thinking Power Point Slides

Superiority and Inferiority Bias: NYT OpEd piece

You Can Disagree Better: NYT Opinion piece

Fake News: NPR's All Tech Considered column on how to test the verity of news

Fake News: A student guide developed by Melissa Zimdars. an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass.

What is Fake News? SRJC Library Guide

Moral Facts? Does the distinction between "facts" and "opinions" make sense?

Dr. Justin McBrayer discusses problems with the "Opinion vs. Fact" dichotomy

Never Tweet: Fahad Manjoo discusses the distorting effects of Twitter on journalism

Implicit Bias: A Discussion with Mahzarin Banaji — The Mind Is a Difference-Seeking Machine

Confidence vs. Competence: Why do so many incompetent men become leaders?

Awareness Test: Bias and Observation

Chapter Two Links

What is an Argument?

What is an Argument? Power Point Slides

Practice with Analysis: Letters to the Editor

Chapter Three Links

Argument Evaluation Power Point Slides

Albert Einstein Logic Puzzle

Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Identify at least one Deductive Pattern

Chapter Five Links

Fallacies and the Concept of Relevance

Fallacies of Relevance Power Point Slides

Ad Hominem: Argument Clinic

Whataboutism: John Oliver discusses fallacies of distraction (starts at 5:30)

Ad Hominem fallacy: Mini Video Lecture

"Straw Figure" (or "Straw Man") fallacy:Mini Video Lecture on Relevance an the Rules of Reasoning

Stephen Colbert Demonstrates the Straw Man Fallacy (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Red Herring fallacy: Mini Video Lecture

"Tu Quoque" (or "Look Whose Talking") fallacy: Mini Video Lecture

Chapter Six Links

Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence Power Point Slides

Weak Analogy: Example from the media

Slippery Slope fallacy: Mini Video Lecture

Fool House Rock: Anti-Vaccination Fallacies

Exercise Solutions

Chapter 2: Exercise 2.1 part I and 2.2 parts I and II

Chapter 2: Exercise 2.4 parts I and II

Chapter 3: Exercises 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3

Chapter 3: Exercises 3.4 and 3.5

Chapter 5: Exercises 5.1 and 5.2, part I

Chapter 6: Exercise 6.1, parts I and II

Quizzes and Exams

Quiz 1: Chapter 1

Quiz 2: Chapter 2

Quiz 3: Chapter 3 part I

Quiz 4: Chapter 3 part II

Practice Quiz for Chapter 5

Practice Quiz for Chapter 6