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PHL 458 Entire Course

• PHL 458 Week 1 Individual Assignment Critical
  Thinking and Society Presentation
• PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 1
• PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 2
• PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 3
• PHL 458 Week 2 Individual Assignment Solve a
  Problem Journal
• PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 1
• PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 2
• PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 3
• PHL 458 Week 3 Individual Assignment Refining
  Solutions Visual Organizer

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PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 1

•  Week 1 DQ 1
• Neurophysiologist research suggests that human
  thinking has two distinct phases which are
  complementary in making decisions or solving
  problems. The first, or production phase, is
  associated with our creative thinking- seeing the
  familiar in a novel way

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PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 2

• Week 1 DQ 2
• Debating moral questions is important as we seek
  to solve problems or face complex issues in life.
  Our text mentions four working principles, as we
  evaluate the obligations, ideals, consequences
  and circumstances in a situation

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PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 3

• Week 1 DQ 3
• Some of the most innovative people were branded
  by their contemporaries as slow learners (Winston
  Churchill), clumsy (Martha Graham), stupid
  (Thomas Edison), or unimpressive (Albert
  Einstein). Yet these individuals persisted in
  developing their creative and critical thinking
  abilities, refusing to define themselves by other
  peoples assessments.

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PHL 458 Week 1 Individual Assignment Critical
Thinking and Society Presentation

• Present on each of the following topics with a
  slide or two/bullet
• Describe a situation in which critical and
  creative thought could have been used for a
  better outcome. This could be a personal or
  societal problem or issue. Describe why it is
  important to think critically and creatively in
  similar situations (2 slides).

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PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 1

• Week 2 DQ 1
• Looking over a list of the worlds inventions is
  in itself a good reminder that we each stand on
  the shoulders of those who have gone before us.
  It also brings to mind the fact that we take a
  lot for granted. Doing this exercise we may even
  come to think that all the worlds inventions

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PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 2

• Week 2 DQ 2
• This Discussion Question will invite each of us
  to borrow from a Famous Thinker. Select any ONE
  Thinker from our Electronic Reserve Readings list
  who effected social change. Read the article(s)
  for that Thinker, and in a Post of 250 to 300
  words

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PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 3

• Week 2 DQ 3
• This Discussion Question will invite each of us
  to do a Controversial Issues Brainstorming
  session. Note that our text makes a key
  distinction between a problem and an issue, both
  of which call us to use our creative and critical
  thinking skills, to come up

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PHL 458 Week 2 Individual Assignment Solve a
Problem Journal

• Create a Solution Journal in which you use the
  creative process to solve a problem with which
  you have experience. Include the following
• Describe each stage in the creative process
  using Ch. 5 of your text (Entry 1).

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PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 1

• Week 3 DQ 1
• Each of us makes assumptions continually in a
  typical day, and many of them are hidden. Clearly
  this is an important potential obstacle of clear
  or critical thinking. Stephen Covey recognized
  this when he said, We simply assume that the way
  we see things is the way they really are or the
  way they should be.

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PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 2

• Week 3 DQ 2
• Chapter 11 in our text is about solving problems
  we encounter in our personal, professional or
  vocational lives. Most of us can call up a
  problem that can be worked on from either of
  these domains, fairly easy. Practice in
  problem-solving is also a major goal of this
  course.

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PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 3

•  Week 3 DQ 3
• Chapter 12 in our text helps us critically think
  through arguments and issues we may face in our
  lives. Errors may affect the truth of the issue,
  they may affect the validity of a premise or
  conclusion, or a hidden premise that may
  side-track a solution. Dealing with simple or
  complex arguments takes practice.

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PHL 458 Week 3 Individual Assignment Refining
Solutions Visual Organizer

• Most great solutions to problems begin with some
  initial flaws. Quality solutions arise by
  refining ideas. Refine your solution to the
  problem defined in your Week Two Individual
  Assignment by following the Three Steps in
  Refining process outlined in Ch. 10 and Ch. 11 of
  your text.

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PHL 458 Week 3 Team Assignment Evaluating and
Refining Resolutions Presentation

• Refine your teams solution to the issue defined
  in the Week Two Learning Team Instructions by
  following Ch. 12 (overcoming errors in reasoning)
  and Ch. 13 (refining resolutions) of the text.
• Create an 8- to 12-slide Microsoft PowerPoint
  presentation.

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PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 1

• Week 4 DQ 1
• Select one of the famous thinkers from our class
  supplemental reading, and read the articles
  listed for your person. Then in a Response of 200
  to 250 words, respond to the following questions
  (you may select the same person you researched in
  Week 2)

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PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 2

• Week 4 DQ 2
• Survey the list of Problem-solving Strategies
  posted in the class Materials forum. You may want
  to refer to a website which explores many of
  these methods or techniques used in business or
  problem-solving to address complex issues or
  problems

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PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 3

• Week 4 DQ 3
• 3.1 The history of philosophy is full of minor
  and major philosophers who have used deductive
  logic to address the tough perennial questions of
  life related to metaphysics (what is real),
  epistemology (what is true), and ethics (what is
  the good life).

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PHL 458 Week 4 Individual Assignment Famous
Thinkers Paper

• Select and read the articles about two famous
  thinkers in the Week Four Electronic Reserve
  Readings. Find additional articles in the
  University Library or on the Internet.
• Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper. Include the
  following
• Information about the thinkers contributions to
  society

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PHL 458 Week 5 Final IQ

• Week 5 Final IQ
• Most of us do not think about our legacy in our
  twenties or thirties or forties. Somewhere in our
  fifties, or at midlife, we begin to wonder what
  our legacy will be to our kids, our family, our
  community and workers, and our world. Legacy can
  be defined as .

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PHL 458 Week 5 Team Assignment Persuasive
Communication Presentation

• Use the issue addressed in your previous Learning
  Team Activity and Assignment.
• Select the most appropriate format to persuade
  your intended audience of the resolution to your
  issue. Possible formats include a political
  campaign, a city council proposal, an editorial
  article, a commercial, a radio-style podcast

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