| PHIL2505 Reading Assignments and Lecture Overheads (updates for 2007 / 2008 coming slowly. Look for the 2k7...) The overheads... are provided as a courtesy to the students of PHIL2505 and are not intended as a substitute for class attendance. You can use them to check your class notes and fill in the thin spots. Keep in mind that these notes are provided as a courtesy and I may not always have time or inclination to provide them. Don't assume that you can skip class and catch up here. (Note: there may be small anomalies in the content -- again, remember that this is a courtesy.) The assigned readings... are for class discussions in the weeks noted. This page will be added to on an irregular basis but you should check by Thursday for possible readings for the following week. All the readings should be read before the class for which they are listed. Note any related exercises. Reading quizzes will occasionally be given in class to encourage keeping up. And note that these readings are in addition to the textbook chapters listed in the syllabus. The do-at-home exercises... need to be typed or computer printed and handed in on the assigned due dates. Term 1 Lecture 1 [Overheads] Lecture 2 [Overheads] Lecture 3 [Overheads] Changed ever so slightly for 2k7 Textbook Chapter 1 Lecture 4 [Overheads] Textbook Chapter 2 Handout: Intelligent Design Debate snippets 2k7 (Print these out and annotate them for class discussion.)
Lecture 5 [Overheads] 2k7 Textbook Chapters 3 and 4 Lecture 6 [Overheads] 2k7 Required: George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) (Please print, annotate and bring to class)
Lecture 7 [Overheads] 2k7 Suggested: Fallacies of Relevance Philosophy Pages
Lecture 8 TEST 1
Lecture 9 [Overheads] 2k7 Suggested: University Hate Speech Codes Suggested: The Emperor's New Clothes Suggested: Groupthink Wikipedia Suggested: Mass psychogenic illness Suggested Scents and Senselessness Lecture 10 The movie: 1984 IMDb 2k7 Suggested: 1984 The complete novel online Suggested: 1984 Summaries and interpretations Suggested: Big Brother A website devoted to watching Big Brother
Lecture 11 [Propaganda Notes]
Lecture 12 [Word Doc] Recommended: Propaganda Propaganda Wikipedia (particularly the techniques 2/3 of the way down...)
Term 2
Lecture 13 12 Angry Men Handout 2k7 Lecture 14 Overheads 2k7 Recommended: Argumentation / persuasion: Logic in argumentative writing Recommended: Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Argumentative essays Recommended: Colorado State University: Arguments ***Exercise due this week....
Lecture 15 Textbook Chapter 7 Notes for lectures 15 and 16 2k7 Warning: this document is quite long....check your paper supply.... Lecture 16 Textbook Chapter 7 (cont'd) 2k7 Recommended: Crunchy Apple Venn Diagram Game
Lecture 17 Chapter 8 (pages 205 to 218 only) 2k7 Enthymemes Wikipedia Tips about Categorical Propositions Recommended: Logic and Writing (and enthymemes) Recommended: Analyzing Argument (Rhetorica)
Lecture 18 [Test 2 Short] TEST 2
Lecture 19 Inherit the Wind (movie 1999 IMDb) 2k7 Scopes Trial Home Page University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School Reflections forty years later John Scopes
Lecture 20 Inductive Reasoning and generalization Overheads Lec 20 2k7 (not entirely complete...)
Lecture 21 Statistical Arguments Chapter 11 (Class Cancelled)
Lecture 22 Causal Arguments Chapter 13 (Class Cancelled) Easter Monday No Class Lecture 23 Sophistries and Pseudoscience (Extra-credit presentations...)
Lecture 24 Tying up the Loose Ends (What the final exam will look like...)
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