Critical Thinking Spring 2025
Instructor: Sean Martin
Email: smartin@santarosa.edu
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Course syllabus Download Course syllabus
Study Resources: Practice Quizzes, Chapter Outlines, etc.
Weekly Learning Instructions
Week One: 2/11 Download Week One: 2/11
Week Two: 2/18 Download Week Two: 2/18
Week Three: 2/25 Download Week Three: 2/25
Week Four: 3/4 Download Week Four: 3/4
Week Five: 3/11 Download Week Five: 3/11
Week Six: 3/25 Download Week Six: 3/25
Week Seven: 4/1 Download Week Seven: 4/1
Textbook Materials
Full Text 4th Edition Download Full Text 4th Edition
Chapter One Download Chapter One
Chapter Two Download Chapter Two
Chapter Three Download Chapter Three
Chapter Four Download Chapter Four
Chapter Five Download Chapter Five
Chapter Six Download Chapter Six
Chapter Seven Download Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight Download Chapter Eight
Chapter Eleven Download Chapter Eleven
Lecture Notes
Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 1 Download Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 1
Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 2 Download Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 2
Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 3 Download Lecture Notes: Standards and Obstacles to Critical Thinking, Part 3
Lecture Notes: What is an Argument, Argument Analysis Part 1 Download Lecture Notes: What is an Argument, Argument Analysis Part 1
Video Lecture: Strategies for Argument Analysis Links to an external site.
Lecture Notes: What is an Argument, Argument Analysis part 2 Download Lecture Notes: What is an Argument, Argument Analysis part 2
Lecture notes on Argument Identification Download Lecture notes on Argument Identification
Lecture Notes: Argument Evaluation Download Lecture Notes: Argument Evaluation
Lecture Notes: Chapter 5 Fallacies of Relevance Download Lecture Notes: Chapter 5 Fallacies of Relevance
Lecture Notes: Chapter 6 Fallacies of Evidence Download Lecture Notes: Chapter 6 Fallacies of Evidence
Additional Learning Materials
Chapter One materials
Mahzarin Banaji Discusses Implicit Bias Links to an external site.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Why do so many incompetent men become leaders? Download 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 Download 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 Download Justin McBreyer, Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts
Justin McBreyer on the Fact/Opinion Distinction
Links to an external site.
Stanley Milgram Experiment Footage from 1962 Links to an external site.
Asch Conformity Experiment Links to an external site.
Monty Python's Argument Clinic (Links to an external site.)
Chapter Two materials
Video Lecture on Argument Analysis Links to an external site.
Chapter Three materials
What is Deductive versus Inductive Reasoning Links to an external site. (5 minutes)
Deductive versus Inductive Reasoning Flow Chart Links to an external site. (8 minutes)
What is a Valid Argument? Links to an external site. (6 minutes)
How to Determine Whether an Argument is Valid: Counterexample Method Links to an external site. (4 minutes)
What is a Sound Argument? Links to an external site. (4 minutes)
What is a Cogent Argument? Links to an external site.(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.)
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
Appeals to Authority: Pseudo Intellectuals and Shady Intellectuals Links to an external site.
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
César Chavez, He Showed Us the Way Download César Chavez, He Showed Us the Way
Exercise Solutions
Solutions will be posted following discussion of each assigned exercise.