PHI1025F Critical Thinking

The following content provides: -Introducing Arguments - Test 1 Revision: Definitions Obstacles to rationality & identifying which obstacle to rationality occurs in each passage Identifying arguments (premises and conclusions) in a passage. Difference between reasons and explanations and arguments and non-arguments. ...

Part 2 of PHI1025F: "The aim of this course is to help you develop your skills as a critical thinker. All of us hold certain claims as true and others as false; we think some courses of action are right and others are wrong. Often we cite reasons for our beliefs and actions. Critical thinking asks us to reflect on these reasons. As a good critical thinker you should be able to distinguish between good, bad and irrelevant reasons for holding a belief. During this course we look in detail at vario...

This is part 1 of PHI1025F: "The aim of this course is to help you develop your skills as a critical thinker. All of us hold certain claims as true and others as false; we think some courses of action are right and others are wrong. Often we cite reasons for our beliefs and actions. Critical thinking asks us to reflect on these reasons. As a good critical thinker you should be able to distinguish between good, bad and irrelevant reasons for holding a belief. During this course we look in detail ...

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