Instructor: Jim
Garson, 505 AH, x3208, Office Hours: MTWTh 2:30-3:30 E-mail:
JGarson@uh.edu
Teaching Assistant: Steven Todd, 508 AH, x3198, Office Hours:
9:00-10:00 E-mail: st4dd@jetson.uh.edu
Book: Practical Reasoning in Natural Language 4th
edition
Course Website: http://www.hfac.uh.edu/phil/garson/CriticalThink.htm
You will need to download material from this web site and consult it
for announcements, new assignments etc..
July 10 1. Introduction:
What is Critical Reasoning?
Introduction, Ch 1-1 pp. 1-20
July 11 2. Identifying
Reasons and Conclusions
Ch. 1-2, pp. 29-48 Exercises 1-1 and 1-2 due July 11
July 12 3. Identifying
Longer Arguments
Ch. 1-3, pp. 49-78 Exercises 1-3 due July 12
July 13 4. Identifying
Complex Argument Structure
Ch. 1-4, pp. 79-114 Exercises 1-4 (omit A4, B4, C4, E5) due July 13
July 17 Review
July 18 QUIZ 1 (1 Hour,
in class)
July 19 5. Validity,
Soundness and Degrees of Support
Ch. 2-1 pp. 115-164 Revised Validity Exercises due July 19
July 20 6. Semantic
Clarification and Conditionals
Ch. 2-2, 2-3 pp. 165-211 Exercises 2-2 (omit 2-2B) and 2-3 due July
20
July 24 7. Valid
Argument Forms and Missing Premises
Ch. 2-4, 2-5 pp. 213-280
Exercises 2-4 (A1-A8, B1-B5, C1-C8, D1-D3) and 2-5 due July 24
July 25 Review
July 26 QUIZ 2 (1 Hour,
in class) PLEASE BRING SCANTRONS!
July 27 8. Clarifying
Obscure Reasoning
Ch. 3, pp. 281-306 Exercises 3-1 due July 27
July 31 9. Informal
Fallacies
Ch. 4, parts 1-12, 16, 18, 24, 27, 28
Exercises 4-1 all; 4-2 A7,A9,B2,B3,B8,C6; 4-3 A2,A9,B6,B8
due July 31
Aug. 1 10. Analyzing Complex
Text
Ch. 6, 7, pp. 443-500 Exercises 6-1A #A2, 7-1B #B2, 7-2 #2, due
August 1
Aug. 2 Review
Aug. 3 QUIZ 3 (1 Hour,
in class)
Aug. 7,8 11. Problem
Solving
Exercises due August 8
Aug. 9,10 12. Making Decisions
Ch 5-1 pp. 385-410 Exercises 5-1A and 5-2 A1-A5 due August 10
Aug. 14 Review
Aug. 15 FINAL 11:00
in this classroom (It should take about 1 hour and 20 minutes.)
Class attendance and completion of exercises is essential. You will be dropped if you fail to turn in two exercises in a row on time. On time means that you turned in your work at the beginning of the class on which it was due. You are responsible for all changes in homework assignments announced in class. Late work will not be accepted except under the most extreme circumstances.
How your grade is calculated:
Homework: 20% QUIZ 1: 20% QUIZ 2: 20% QUIZ 3: 20% FINAL: 20%