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2. PHL 251 Entire Course • 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 • PHL 251 Week 3 Individual Assignment Logical Thinking Worksheet • PHL 251 Week 3 DQ 1 • PHL 251 Week 3 DQ 2 • PHL 251 Week 4 Team Assignment Evaluate Creative Thinking • PHL 251 Week 4 Individual Assignment Applying Problem Solving Paper • PHL 251 Week 4 DQ 1

3. PHL 251 Week 1 DQ 1 • 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

4. PHL 251 Week 1 DQ 2 • 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. • o Discuss the higher orders of thought like applications of concepts and theories to real-world situations.

5. PHL 251 Week 1 Individual Assignment Nature of Thought Paper • 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.

6. PHL 251 Week 2 DQ 1 • Week 2 DQ 1 • 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?

7. PHL 251 Week 2 DQ 2 • Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following discussion question by clicking on Reply: • How can a metaphor affect a person’s emotions? Explain how the language used influences the interpretation of the metaphor.

8. PHL 251 Week 2 Individual Assignment Creative Thinking Paper • 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 • Construct as many metaphors as you can about five different things that describe any aspect of your life, such as someone you know, something you do,

9. PHL 251 Week 3 DQ 1 • Week 3 DQ 1 • Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following discussion question by clicking on Reply: • 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?

10. PHL 251 Week 3 DQ 2 • Week 3 DQ 2 • Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following discussion question by clicking on Reply: • 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?

11. PHL 251 Week 3 Individual Assignment Logical Thinking Worksheet • PHL 251 Week 3 Individual Assignment Logical Thinking Worksheet • 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?

12. PHL 251 Week 4 DQ 1 • Week 4 DQ 1 • Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following discussion question by clicking on Reply: • What role does critical thinking play in decision making?

13. PHL 251 Week 4 DQ 2 • Week 4 DQ 2 • 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.Week 4 DQ 2 • 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.

14. PHL 251 Week 4 Individual Assignment Applying Problem Solving Paper • PHL 251 Week 4 Individual Assignment Applying Problem Solving Paper • Resources: Ch. 10–12 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.

15. PHL 251 Week 4 Team Assignment Evaluate Creative Thinking • 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 member’s metaphors according to the criteria listed in Week Three Learning Team Instructions. • o Refer to the questions in Ch. 13: “Testing Against our Thinking Bases,” in order to understand these terms and complete this assignment.

16. PHL 251 Week 5 DQ 1 • Week 5 DQ 1 • 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?

17. PHL 251 Week 5 DQ 2 • Week 5 DQ 2 • Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following discussion question by clicking on Reply: • What are some factors that can be used to measure the effectiveness of a solution obtained through the decision-making process?

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