PHIL 347 Package Deal Critical Reasoning

WEEK 1 COURSE PROJECT 2 Week 1 Course Project: Topic Selection The topic I have chosen is “Free college for everyone.” The specific issue I will be exploring is “Should college be free for e veryone?” I think college should be free for all. I endorse the concept and believe that granting fre...

• Do you agree that wisdom/critical thinking is a better predictor of well-being than intelligence? To answer, you will have to define what the following terms mean for you: o Critical thinking- re view and assessment of a problem in order to draw a conclusion o Wisdom – the quality of having ex...

Week 2 Journal Chamberlain College of Nursing PHIL 347: Critical Reasoning May 2020 Week 2 Journal The most important idea is that is the very first line of chapter 5. Making arguments and g iving reasons to communicate the basis for our beliefs and decisions are universal in our species (Facione, P...

WEEK 2 CHECKPOINT QUIZ Briefly state how the text defines “claim.” Your Answer: The text defines the word "claim" as the maker of the argument is justifying or proving to be true and it is also known as argument conclusion. Reread the section in the text entitled “Two Confusions to Avoid” ...

The topic I selected to research was Option 1: California Washington mural painting which was titled, The Life of Washington by Depression-era artist Victor Arnautoff. At first just looking at the im ages that displayed in the google search, I found to be offensive and hurtful to minorities and thou...

Week 2 Discussion: Context, Meaning, and Value Thomas Hart Benton, A Social History of Indiana, "Parks, the Circus, the Klan, the Press" (1933), detail, at the University of Indiana. Courtesy of Ba rt Everson, via Creative Commons. Hello Professor Sonja and classmates, In University of Indiana, th...

Issue: College Should Be Free for Everyone Aspect 1: Economy Pro: Deming, D. (2019, July 19). Tuition-Free College Could Cost Less Than You Think. NY Times. The writer breaks down the costs ass ociated with free college for all. In recent years, the government has spent estimated 91 billion dollars ...

Week 3 Checkpoint Quiz. According to the text, how do the views of stronger, more developed critical thinkers toward authority differ from those in earlier stages of cognitive development? Your An swer: Developed critical thinkers are skeptical. They will not trust the word of an authority figure wi...

Week 3 Discussion – Evaluating Sources To me the definition of expert is someone who has a wide knowledge of a specific topic. Experts can acquire such knowledge through education or experience. Al l the knowledge they know can be spread by teaching others or through practice like doctors. It has ...

Inference: Briefly discuss how the lexical definitions and connotations of "valid" and "warranted" can help us understand the differing purposes of deductive and inductive arguments. • Valid i s something well-grounded on principles or evidence; able to withstand criticism or objection, as an ...

Based on what you have read in the text, the lecture, and any other sources you find helpful to your understanding of deductive arguments, explain the structure of a deductive argument in your own wo rds. Answer: Based on what I have read in the text, the lecture, and other sources to gain an unders...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 8, 9, 17 (Introduction) • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook) Click on the following tabs to review the concepts that will be addressed in this activity: A valid struc...

System 1 and System 2: System 1 depends on pertinent remembrance, cues and thinking heuristic to arrive rapidly and confidently at perceptions. According to , “System 1 produces the fast, intuitive reactions and instantaneous decisions that govern most of our lives”. To get myself though my day,...

Source 1 The first source is a scholarly article titled, “7 Risks of e-cigarettes emerge by Janet Raloff written in 2014. The article is recent which still includes a lot of the harmful effects o f vaping and e-cigarettes. In the article, Raloff talks about the main harmful effects that are seen i...