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Critical Thinking: A Shepherd's Guide to Tending Sheep: A Text and Reader

Critical Thinking: A Shepherd's Guide to Tending Sheep: A Text and Reader

Author(s): Jason McFaul

Edition: 2

Copyright: 2002

Pages: 438

Edition: 2

Copyright: 2002

Pages: 438

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Critical Thinking: A Shepherd's Guide to Tending Sheep portrays people as sheep.  Not a wholly original idea.  As anthropomorphic as it may be, human beings tend to follow various shepherds, and they tend to do so in herds.  The irony, however, is that most Americans consider themselves individuals, non-conformists, and self-reliant.  Hence, the difficulty in teaching Americans how to think critically is found in actually convincing them that they are not individuals until they master critical thinking. Critical Thinking: A Shepherd's Guide to Tending Sheep introduces students to the art of critical thinking using age-old philosophies and real-world applications.  The author has revived the art of critical thinking and presents if here in a cogent, succinct, pragmatic manner.  It will help turn your student sheep back into student people.

Preface
Acknowledgments
To Instructors

CHAPTER 1: What Is Critical Thinking?   
Writing a Constitution 
More than Religion by Emi Fujii 
Angst by Joey Gu 
A Purpose for Everything by Shane Johnson 
Writing a World View 
Disease by Sean Stokes 
Too Much Money by Michael Juhn 
The Global Toilet by Joey Gu 
The Speech the Graduates Didn't Hear by Jacob Neusner 
The Damned Human Race by Mark Twain 
The Uncritical American; or, Nobody's from Missouri Any More
by Wayne C. Booth 
Lessons in Critical Thinking: or, an Argument Is Only Pointless if We Have the Experience But Miss the Meaning 

CHAPTER 2: Methodologies for Critical Thinkers 
Activities of Thinking 
Component Parts 
Your Reality or Mine? 
The Toulmin Model vs. Aristotle's Deductive Syllogism 

CHAPTER 3: Identifying Claims 
Claims of Value 
Burn, Baby, Burn! by Jay Rubin 
Claims of Fact 
The Mistake of the Millennium by Paul O'Brien 
Claims of Policy 
We Make Money by Making You Feel Ugly by Estelle Hartson 
Controlling an Argument 
Controlling a Written Argument 

CHAPTER 4: Issue/Problem Papers 
Format for I/P Papers 
How to Refute the Opposition 
Booth Gets Graded by Susan Harwood 
Grade-Two Thinking by Joey Gu 
Reasons to War by Amalia Galvez 
Savages? by Emi Fujii 
I/P Paper Topics 

CHAPTER 5: Writing Argument Papers 
How to Write an Argument Paper 
Outline for Position and Proposal Papers 
Class, Not Race by Michael Juhn 
Affirmative Action? No! by Dirk Ellington 
Who Should Survive? by Susan Harwood 
Critical Whistleblowers by Thuy Nguyen 
Defining Violence by David Lemus 
It's Not Just The Television by Susan Harwood 

CHAPTER 6: Whistle Blowers 
Scenarios for Whistle Blowers 
The Allegory of the Cave by Plato 

CHAPTER 7: Common Fallacies 
False Analogy 
Ad Hominem 
Hasty Generalization 
Faulty Use of Authority 
Post Hoc or Doubtful Cause 
Dicto Simpliciter 
False Dilemma (Either-or Arguments) 
Two Wrongs Make a Right 
Ad Ignorantiam (Appeal to Ignorance) 
Slippery Slope 
Love Is a Fallacy by Max Shulman 

CHAPTER 8: The Satire 
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 
Dating Your Mom by Ian Frazier 
Why Doesn't GM Sell Crack? by Michael Moore 
How to Raise a Pimp by Darryl L. Fortson, M.D. 
Yo! Like What's Wrong Wif Ma Rap? by Gail Rankin 
Praising the SAT by Kriselle Gan 

CHAPTER 9: The Debate 
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
Gatecrashers by Michael Kinsley 
We Should Always Lift Our Lamp to the World by Susan Roosevelt Weld and
             William F. Weld 
Immigration Straight-Talk by William Raspberry 
Unchecked Immigration by Peter Brimelow 
Geniuses from Abroad by George Gilder 
How about Home-Grown Geniuses? by Mark Krikorian 
Get Out of Dodge! by Wanda Coleman 
Additional Readings 
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 
The Witch by Shirley Jackson 
Should Princes Tell the Truth? by Niccolo Machiavelli 
The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson 
Incivility in the Classroom Breeds "Education Lite" by Paul A.

Jason McFaul

Critical Thinking: A Shepherd's Guide to Tending Sheep portrays people as sheep.  Not a wholly original idea.  As anthropomorphic as it may be, human beings tend to follow various shepherds, and they tend to do so in herds.  The irony, however, is that most Americans consider themselves individuals, non-conformists, and self-reliant.  Hence, the difficulty in teaching Americans how to think critically is found in actually convincing them that they are not individuals until they master critical thinking. Critical Thinking: A Shepherd's Guide to Tending Sheep introduces students to the art of critical thinking using age-old philosophies and real-world applications.  The author has revived the art of critical thinking and presents if here in a cogent, succinct, pragmatic manner.  It will help turn your student sheep back into student people.

Preface
Acknowledgments
To Instructors

CHAPTER 1: What Is Critical Thinking?   
Writing a Constitution 
More than Religion by Emi Fujii 
Angst by Joey Gu 
A Purpose for Everything by Shane Johnson 
Writing a World View 
Disease by Sean Stokes 
Too Much Money by Michael Juhn 
The Global Toilet by Joey Gu 
The Speech the Graduates Didn't Hear by Jacob Neusner 
The Damned Human Race by Mark Twain 
The Uncritical American; or, Nobody's from Missouri Any More
by Wayne C. Booth 
Lessons in Critical Thinking: or, an Argument Is Only Pointless if We Have the Experience But Miss the Meaning 

CHAPTER 2: Methodologies for Critical Thinkers 
Activities of Thinking 
Component Parts 
Your Reality or Mine? 
The Toulmin Model vs. Aristotle's Deductive Syllogism 

CHAPTER 3: Identifying Claims 
Claims of Value 
Burn, Baby, Burn! by Jay Rubin 
Claims of Fact 
The Mistake of the Millennium by Paul O'Brien 
Claims of Policy 
We Make Money by Making You Feel Ugly by Estelle Hartson 
Controlling an Argument 
Controlling a Written Argument 

CHAPTER 4: Issue/Problem Papers 
Format for I/P Papers 
How to Refute the Opposition 
Booth Gets Graded by Susan Harwood 
Grade-Two Thinking by Joey Gu 
Reasons to War by Amalia Galvez 
Savages? by Emi Fujii 
I/P Paper Topics 

CHAPTER 5: Writing Argument Papers 
How to Write an Argument Paper 
Outline for Position and Proposal Papers 
Class, Not Race by Michael Juhn 
Affirmative Action? No! by Dirk Ellington 
Who Should Survive? by Susan Harwood 
Critical Whistleblowers by Thuy Nguyen 
Defining Violence by David Lemus 
It's Not Just The Television by Susan Harwood 

CHAPTER 6: Whistle Blowers 
Scenarios for Whistle Blowers 
The Allegory of the Cave by Plato 

CHAPTER 7: Common Fallacies 
False Analogy 
Ad Hominem 
Hasty Generalization 
Faulty Use of Authority 
Post Hoc or Doubtful Cause 
Dicto Simpliciter 
False Dilemma (Either-or Arguments) 
Two Wrongs Make a Right 
Ad Ignorantiam (Appeal to Ignorance) 
Slippery Slope 
Love Is a Fallacy by Max Shulman 

CHAPTER 8: The Satire 
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 
Dating Your Mom by Ian Frazier 
Why Doesn't GM Sell Crack? by Michael Moore 
How to Raise a Pimp by Darryl L. Fortson, M.D. 
Yo! Like What's Wrong Wif Ma Rap? by Gail Rankin 
Praising the SAT by Kriselle Gan 

CHAPTER 9: The Debate 
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
Gatecrashers by Michael Kinsley 
We Should Always Lift Our Lamp to the World by Susan Roosevelt Weld and
             William F. Weld 
Immigration Straight-Talk by William Raspberry 
Unchecked Immigration by Peter Brimelow 
Geniuses from Abroad by George Gilder 
How about Home-Grown Geniuses? by Mark Krikorian 
Get Out of Dodge! by Wanda Coleman 
Additional Readings 
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 
The Witch by Shirley Jackson 
Should Princes Tell the Truth? by Niccolo Machiavelli 
The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson 
Incivility in the Classroom Breeds "Education Lite" by Paul A.

Jason McFaul
Jason McFaul