PHIL 133-Critical Thinking-Anwar Ul Haq
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Lahore University of Management Sciences Phil 133 – Critical Thinking (3 credit hours) Summer 2015 Instructor Anwar ul Haq Room No. TBA Office Hours TBA Email [email protected] Telephone Secretary/TA TA Office Hours Course URL (if any) Course Basics Credit Hours 3 Lecture(s) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week 4 Duration 75 minutes each Recitation/Lab (per week) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week NA Duration Tutorial (per week) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week NA Duration Course Distribution Core Elective * Open for Student Category All Close for Student Category None COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is an introduction to informal reasoning and how to critically analyze issues across disciplines. Topics to be covered include: recognizing arguments and components thereof, reconstructing and analyzing arguments, deductive and inductive reasoning, discovering fallacies, and so on. The course will help students to read and analyze academic material more critically thereby helping them better organize their own work in order to produce defensible arguments. COURSE PREREQUISITE(S) None COURSE OBJECTIVES
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Phil133CriticalThinking(3credithours)
Summer2015Instructor AnwarulHaqRoomNo. TBAOfficeHours TBAEmail [email protected] Secretary/TA TAOfficeHours CourseURL(ifany)
CourseBasicsCreditHours 3Lecture(s) NbrofLec(s)Per
Week4 Duration 75 minutes each
Recitation/Lab(perweek) NbrofLec(s)PerWeek
NA Duration
Tutorial(perweek) NbrofLec(s)PerWeek
NA Duration
CourseDistributionCore Elective *OpenforStudentCategory
AllCloseforStudentCategory
NoneCOURSEDESCRIPTIONThiscourseisanintroductiontoinformalreasoningandhowtocriticallyanalyzeissuesacrossdisciplines.Topicstobecovered include:recognizingargumentsandcomponentsthereof,reconstructingandanalyzingarguments,deductiveand inductivereasoning,discoveringfallacies,andsoon.Thecoursewillhelpstudentstoreadandanalyzeacademicmaterial more critically thereby helping them better organize their own work in order to produce defensiblearguments.COURSEPREREQUISITE(S)None
COURSEOBJECTIVES
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Studentswilllearnavarietyoftechnicalnotionsandskillsforapplyingthem.Themainobjectivesaretoenhancethecapacitytoconductcriticalinquiryanddevelopreadingandwritingskillstobesuccessfulinacademicandprofessionalenvironments.LearningOutcomesAfter completing this course students should be able to recognize arguments, identify their salient components,arrangetheminastandardlogicalform,identifytheirtypes,detectpotentialfallacies,andevaluatetheirstrength.
GradingBreakupandPolicy
Attendance:10% Quizzes:20% Practiceexercises:20% Groupassignments:20% Midterm:30%
ExaminationDetailMidtermexam:yesFinalexam:no
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COURSEOVERVIEWTopics RecommendedReadingsIntroduction
IntroducingargumentsRecognizingpremisesandconclusionsDistinguishingargumentsfromexplanations
BowellandKemp,Ch.1
Languageandrhetoric(Ambiguity,vagueness,rhetoricalploys)
BowellandKemp,Ch.2
Logic:deductivevalidityandsoundness
BowellandKemp,Ch.3
Logic:inductiveforce
BowellandKemp,Ch.4
Argumentreconstruction(Implicitandexplicitpremises,connectingpremises,intermediateconclusions,explanationsasconclusions)
BowellandKemp,Ch.5
Argumentassessment(Rationalpersuasiveness,refutationbycounterexamples)
BowellandKemp,Ch.6
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PseudoreasoningFallaciesandtheirdebunking
BowellandKemp,Ch.7
TruthandrelativityBelief,justificationandtruthKnowledge
BowellandKemp,Ch.8
Criticalanalysisoftexts Textbook(s)/SupplementaryReadingsPrimary:Bowell,T.andKemp,G.2010.CriticalThinking:AConciseGuide.NY:Routledge.Supplementary:Fogelin,R.andSinnotArmstrong,W.2010.UnderstandingArguments:AnIntroductiontoInformalLogic.CA:Wadsworth.Cottrell,S.2005.CriticalThinkingSkills.NY:PalgraveMacmillan.
