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PHL 251Course Tutorial

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PHL 251 Entire Course

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• PHL 251 Week 1 Individual Assignment Nature of
  Thought Paper
• PHL 251 Week 1 DQ 1
• PHL 251 Week 1 DQ 2
• PHL 251 Week 2 Individual Assignment Creative
  Thinking Paper
• PHL 251 Week 2 DQ 1
• PHL 251 Week 2 DQ 2

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PHL 251 Week 1 DQ 1

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• Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following
  discussion question by clicking on Reply
• What happens if a person gets stuck at a certain
  level of thought?
• o Feral children
• o Einstein
• o Brain injury victims
• o Others

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PHL 251 Week 1 DQ 2

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• Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following
  discussion question by clicking on Reply
• List different ways in which thinking influences
  your life. Begin with what can be done without
  thought and move through a hierarchy of basic to
  complex uses of thoughts.
• o Start with basic functions, such as breathing.
• o Explore thinking in terms of wants versus needs.

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PHL 251 Week 1 Individual Assignment Nature of
Thought Paper

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• PHL 251 Week 1 Individual Assignment Nature of
  Thought Paper
• Read the materials listed on the Student Web site
  for Week One.
• Nature of Thought Paper Resources Ch. 1-6 13
  of Thinking. Write a 700- 1,050-word paper
  explaining the nature of thought. Outline your
  own perceptual process and describe the types of
  perceptual blocks that influence your views.
  Explain thought processes and how they are
  changed or manipulated by perception.

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PHL 251 Week 2 DQ 1

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• Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following
  discussion question by clicking on Reply
• What are the processes we use to organize
  information? What are natural orders? What are
  mental orders? Is there a connection between the
  two different ordering processes? Why or why not?

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PHL 251 Week 2 DQ 2

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• Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following
  discussion question by clicking on Reply
• How can a metaphor affect a persons emotions?
  Explain how the language used influences the
  interpretation of the metaphor

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PHL 251 Week 2 Individual Assignment Creative
Thinking Paper

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• PHL 251 Week 2 Individual Assignment Creative
  Thinking Paper
• Resources Creative Thinking and Natural/Mental
  Orders Worksheet, found on your student Web site
  Activity 7.1, located in Ch. 7 of Thinking, for
  examples on how to create metaphors and Ch. 8 of
  Thinking

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PHL 251 Week 3 DQ 1

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• What is the basic structure of an argument in the
  context of critical thinking? How can you
  identify the parts or elements of an argument?

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PHL 251 Week 3 DQ 2

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• Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following
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• What are the elements of a syllogism? What role
  does a syllogism play in persuasion? Explain the
  difference between truth and validity in a
  syllogism. How can a syllogism be valid even if
  it is not true?

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PHL 251 Week 3 Individual Assignment Logical
Thinking Worksheet

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• Logical Thinking Worksheet
• Use the following questions to guide you through
  your exploration of logical thinking and
  arguments. Answer the questions as completely as
  possible, and provide examples where needed.
• 1. What is a logical argument?
• 2. When and how do we use them?
• 3. What parts do they contain?

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PHL 251 Week 4 DQ 1

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• Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following
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• What role does critical thinking play in decision
  making?

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PHL 251 Week 4 DQ 2

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• Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following
  discussion question by clicking on Reply
• During a persuasive argument, how can the needs
  and concerns of the audience be met while still
  meeting the objective of the argument? Provide at
  least one example.

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PHL 251 Week 4 Individual Assignment Applying
Problem Solving Paper

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• PHL 251 Week 4 Individual Assignment Applying
  Problem Solving Paper
• Resources Ch. 1012 of the text, personal
  experiences
• Choose two different real-world problems you
  have encountered. The problems should be chosen
  with the intention of applying persuasive
  thinking as a solution to one and scientific
  thinking as a solution to the other.

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PHL 251 Week 4 Team Assignment Evaluate Creative
Thinking

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• PHL 251 Week 4 Team Assignment Evaluate Creative
  Thinking
• Resources Individual assignments from Week Two
  and Ch. 13 of Thinking
• Write a combined paper from the individual team
  member notes of week 3 (total word count should
  be no more than 500 words for the entire paper)
  in which you evaluate your team members
  metaphors according to the criteria listed in
  Week Three Learning Team Instructions.

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PHL 251 Week 5 DQ 1

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• Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following
  discussion question by clicking on Reply
• Provide an example of a simple decision you
  recently made. What were the elements of the
  decision? What decision-making process did you
  use?

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PHL 251 Week 5 DQ 2

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• Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following
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• What are some factors that can be used to measure
  the effectiveness of a solution obtained through
  the decision-making process?

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PHL 251 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Problem
Solving and Action Presentation

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• PHL 251 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Problem
  Solving and Action Presentation
• Resources Ch. 4, 5, 10, 13, 14, 15 of
  Thinking Ch. 10 of Critical Thinking and the
  Problem Solving and Action Example located on the
  student Web site
• Prepare a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint
  presentation with speaker notes in the note
  section of the slides according to the following
  criteria.

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PHL 251Course Tutorial

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