COMM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sex In Advertising, In-Group Favoritism, Confirmation Bias
1 Sep 2016
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Critical thinking is a systematic approach to evaluating and formulating good arguments in defence of specific beliefs or claims. We will ask why critical thinking is critical to ethics this involves illustrating how mistaken ethical beliefs can be rooted in either 1 faulty premises or 2 faulty logic. Faulty premises will be further subdivided into unacceptable factual foundations and unacceptable ethical principles. We will provide students with a handful of key critical thinking skills that they can apply to analyzing or resolving ethical changes. First students will learn about argument structure and the key components of arguments premises and conclusions. Next students will learn about the ingredients of good ethical arguments and will be given tools for examining both the acceptability of premises and the relevance of particular premises to specific conclusions. Finally the chapter will include a brief discussion of various well known pitfalls in ethical reasoning.
