Instructor: Sean Martin

Email: smartin@santarosa.edu

Course Links

Course syllabus

Study Resources: Practice Quizzes, Chapter Outlines, etc.

Daily Learning Instructions

Thursday 2/15: NO CLASS

Thursday 2/29

Thursday 3/7

Thursday 3/28

Thursday 4/4 and Tuesday 4/9

Thursday 4/11

Thursday 4/18 and Tuesday 4/23

Tuesday 4/30 and Thursday 5/2

Tuesday 5/7 and Thursday 5/9

Textbook Materials

Full Text 4th Edition

Chapter One

Chapter Six

Lecture Notes

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

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

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

Lecture Notes: What is an Argument, Argument Analysis Part 1

Video Lecture: Strategies for Argument Analysis

Lecture Notes: What is an Argument, Argument Analysis part 2

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

Lecture notes on Argument Identification

Lecture Notes: Argument Evaluation

Lecture Notes: Chapter 5 Fallacies of Relevance

Lecture Notes: Chapter 6 Fallacies of Evidence

Additional Learning Materials

Chapter One materials

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

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

Justin McBreyer on the Fact/Opinion Distinction

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

Stanley Milgram Experiment Footage from 1962

Asch Conformity Experiment

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

Chapter Two materials

Video Lecture on Argument Analysis

Chapter Three materials

Einstein's Logic Puzzle

What is Deductive versus Inductive Reasoning (5 minutes)

Deductive versus Inductive Reasoning Flow Chart (8 minutes)

What is a Valid Argument? (6 minutes)

How to Determine Whether an Argument is Valid: Counterexample Method (4 minutes)

What is a Sound Argument? (4 minutes)

What is a Cogent Argument?(4 minutes)

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

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

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

Chapter Five Materials

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.)

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

Chapter Six Materials

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

Exercise Solutions

Chapter 2 Exercise Solutions: Exercise 2.1 (parts I & II); Exercise 2.2 (parts I & II); Exercise 2.4 (parts I and II)

Chapter 3 Exercise Solutions: Exercise 3.1; 3.2, and 3.3

Chapter 3 Exercise Solutions: Exercise 3.5 parts I-IV

Chapter 5 Exercise Solutions: Exercise 5.1 and 3.2 part I

Chapter 6 Exercise Solutions: Exercise 6.1 parts I and II