Schedule - Critical Thinking

Date	Topic	Presentations and Handouts	Assignments Due
January 24	Introduction: Critical Thinking	Presentation: Critical Thinking
January 28	Arguments and Simple Argument Diagrams	Presentation: Arguments Handout: Arguments and non-arguments Handout: Simple Argument Diagrams
January 31	Logic	Presentation: Logic Handout: Simple Logic Arguments	Journal: 1
February 4	Formal Logic	Presentation: Formal Logic Handout: Inference Rules Handout: Complex Logic Arguments
February 7	Arguments Revisited	Presentation: Arguments II	HW 1: Arguments and Logic
February 11	Complex Argument Diagrams	Presentation: Argument Diagrams Handout: Complex Argument Diagrams	HW 2 (in class): Argument Diagrams
February 14	Class cancelled!
February 19 (!)	Language, Thought, and Rhetoric	Presentation: Language and Thought Handout: Slanters Dave Berry: How to Argue Effectively	Journal: 2
February 21	Emotional Appeals	Presentation: Emotional Appeals Handout: Emotional Appeals Handout: Rhetoric and Emotional Appeals
February 25	Fallacies: Ad Hominem	Presentation: Ad Hominem Handout: Ad Hominems	Journal: 3 + 4
February 28	Other Fallacies	Presentation: Fallacies
March 4	Fallacies in Real Life		Journal: 5 + 6 HW 3 (in class): Fallacies
March 7	Midterm

Date	Topic	Presentations and Handouts	Assignments Due
March 18	Statistical Reasoning	Statistical Reasoning
March 21	Pitfalls in Reasoning with Probabilities	Reasoning with Probabilities
March 25	Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics	Statistical Fallacies
March 28	Causal Reasoning	Causal Reasoning	Journal: 7
April 1	In Class HW		HW 4: Statistical and Causal Reasoning
April 4	Video: Secrets of the Psychics	Randi	Journal: 8
April 8	Perception and Memory	PerceptionMemory	Final Project Proposal Due
April 11	Cognitive Biases	Cognitive Biases
April 15	Social Biases	Social Biases
April 18	In Class HW		HW 5: Cognitive and Social Biases
April 22	Science and the Scientific Method	Science
April 25	Science, Religion, Faith, and Belief	Science and Religion
April 29	Group Project Presentations	Gay Marriage, Piracy, and Abortion	Journal: 1-9
May 2	Group Project Presentations	Animal Treatment, Drug Legalization, and Due Process
May 6	Group Project Presentations	Vaccinations, Violence in Media, and Gun Control

Part I - Everyday Reasoning