PHIL 1010 - Critical Thinking

4 Semester Hours
An introduction to basic reasoning; critical skills focusing on learning how to determine whether to accept, reject, or suspend judgment on a claim depending on how much evidence; valid argumentation supports it The course includes learning how to detect arguments, how to detect non-argumentative psychological persuasion, how to detect faulty reasoning, how to judge statistical claims, how to judge polls; surveys, how to judge the quality of an experimental scientific study, how to analyze everyday forms of persuasion (in journalism, advertising, politics,; personal conversations), how to apply the specific standards of aesthetic, legal,; moral reasoning,; how to write clear, coherent, well-argued; well-supported essays; reports