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Critical Thinking 01 Intro
- 1. Phil 5 Critical Thinking in Writing
- 3. Philosophy Thales, 620 — 546 BCE How do you know? mythos/logos
- 4. Philosophy Anaximander, 610—546 BCE What is real? the Boundless
- 5. Philosophy Heraclitus, 500 BCE How to live? All are bound by one law
- 6. Philosophy Epistemology How do you know? What is real? How to live?
- 7. Philosophy Epistemology How do you know? Metaphysics What is real? How to live?
- 8. Philosophy Epistemology How do you know? Metaphysics Ethics What is real? How to live?
- 9. Philosophy: the attempt to answer, critically, the epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical questions.
- 10. Philosophy: the attempt to answer, critically, the epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical questions.
- 15. Critical Thinking Two Basic Principles
- 17. Principle of Charity: for any claim, give it the strongest possible interpretation.
- 19. Principle of Sufficient Reason: for or any claim, give reason why it is true, or not.
- 20. Critical Thinking A Method of Questioning
- 21. Controlling the Question Is drinking milk healthy for humans? What are the healthiest drinks for humans? What Constitutional rights should we keep? Has the Constitutional right to bear arms outlived its usefulness? Are single-sex schools better for education? What is the best method of education?
- 22. Controlling the Question Open Questions What are the healthiest drinks for humans? What Constitutional rights should we keep? What is the best method of education? Yes-or-no Questions Is drinking milk healthy for humans? Has the Constitutional right to bear arms outlived its usefulness? Are single-sex schools better for education?
- 23. Open Questions Are Topic or Theme Questions What are the healthiest drinks for humans? What Constitutional rights should we keep? What is the best method of education?
- 24. Yes-or-no Questions Are Issue Questions Is drinking milk healthy for humans? Has the Constitutional right to bear arms outlived its usefulness? Are single-sex schools better for education?
- 25. An Issue Question: is a yes-or-no question, and is the way to formulate questions for the disputed question method (quaestio disputata).
- 26. The Disputed Question Method yes: Reasons supporting the yes answer or refuting the no answer. Which side has the better reasons? the question no: Reasons supporting the no answer or refuting the yes answer.
- 27. The Disputed Question Method yes: Reasons supporting the yes answer or refuting the no answer. Is drinking milk healthy? Which side has the better reasons? no: Reasons supporting the no answer or refuting the yes answer.
- 28. The Disputed Question Method yes: Reasons supporting the yes answer or refuting the no answer. Is the right to bear arms still useful? Which side has the better reasons? no: Reasons supporting the no answer or refuting the yes answer.
- 29. The Disputed Question Method yes: Are singlesex schools better for education? Reasons supporting the yes answer or refuting the no answer. Which side has the better reasons? no: Reasons supporting the no answer or refuting the yes answer.
- 30. A virtue is an excellence, a mean between two extremes called vices.