Sean Martin

Instructor: Sean Martin

Email: smartin@santarosa.edu

Course Links

Week One

Learning Instructions for the week of 1/18-1/22

Course syllabus

Critical Thinking Text Chapter 1

Week Two

Learning Instructions for the week of 1/25-1/29

Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 1

Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 1 pdf file

Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 2

Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 2 pdf file

Mahzarin Banaji Discusses Implicit Bias

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Why do so many incompetent men become leaders?

Spencer Greenberg and Seth Stephens-Davidowitz,You Are Not as Good at Kissing as You Think. But You Are Better at Dancing

Week Three

Learning instructions for the week of 2/1-2/5

Justin McBreyer, Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts

Justin McBreyer on the Fact/Opinion Distinction

Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 3

Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 3 pdf file

Week Four

Learning Instructions for the week of 2/8-2/12

Professor Jeffrey Kaplan The fallacious move from different perspectives to relativism about truth

Stanley Milgram Experiment Footage from 1962

Asch Conformity Experiment

Week Five

Learning Instructions for the week of 2/15-2/19

Week Six

Learning Instructions for the week of 2/22-2/26

Lecture Notes: What is an Argument

Monty Python's Argument Clinic (Links to an external site.)

Solutions to exercise 2.1 part I

Week Seven

Learning Instructions for the week of 3/1-3/5

Video Lecture: Strategies for Argument Analysis

Lecture notes on Argument Analysis part 2

Solutions to exercise 2.2 parts I and II

Week Eight

Learning Instructions for the week of 3/8-3/12

Video Lecture: Argument Identification and Non-Argument Functions of Language

Lecture notes on Argument Identification

Solutions to exercise 2.4

Week Nine

Learning Instructions for the week of 3/15-3/19

Practice with Chapter 2 Concepts: True/False Questions

Practice with Chapter 2 Concepts: Multiple Choice Questions

Practice with Chapter 2 Concepts: Recognizing Statements/Non-Statements

Practice with Chapter 2 Concepts: Analyzing Arguments

Practice with Chapter 2 Concepts: Recognizing Arguments/Non-Arguments

Week Ten

Spring Break! No classes and no office hours during the period of 3/19-3/28

Week Eleven

Learning Instructions for the week of 3/29-4/2

Lecture Notes: Argument Evaluation

Einstein's Logic Puzzle

Solutions to Exercises 3.1 and 3.2

Practice with Chapter 3 Concepts: Distinguishing Deductive and Inductive arguments

Distinguishing Deductive and Inductive Reasoning (Links to an external site.)

Distinguishing Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: The Gentleman Thinker (Links to an external site.)

Week Twelve

Learning instructions for the week of 4/5-4/9

Solutions to Exercise 3.3

Deductive Validity: (Links to an external site.) Khan Academy Video

Practice Exercises for Deductive Validity

Week Thirteen

Learning Instructions for the week of 4/12-4/16

Solutions to Exercises 3.5 Parts I and II

Solutions to Exercises 3.5 Parts III and IV

Week Fourteen

Learning Instructions for week 14 4.19.21 to 4.23.21-2.pdf

Lecture Notes: Chapter 5 Fallacies of Relevance

Ad Hominem (Links to an external site.): Argument Clinic

Whataboutism: (Links to an external site.)John Oliver discusses fallacies of distraction (starts at 5:30)

Ad Hominem fallacy: (Links to an external site.)Mini Video Lecture

"Straw Figure" (or "Straw Man") fallacy: (Links to an external site.)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 (Links to an external site.): Mini Video Lecture

"Tu Quoque" (or "Look Whose Talking") fallacy: (Links to an external site.)Mini Video Lecture

Week Fifteen

Learning Instructions for week 15 4/26-4/30

Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence Power Point Slides

Weak Analogy: (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

Slippery Slope fallacy: (Links to an external site.)Mini Video Lecture

Fool House Rock: Anti-Vaccination Fallacies

Solutions to Exercise 7.4 problem #9

Week Sixteen

Learning Instructions for the Week of 5/3-5/7

Solutions to Exercises 5.1 and 5.2

Week Seventeen and Eighteen

Learning Instructions for the weeks of 5/10-5/21

Solutions to Exercise 6.1

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