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For more classes visit<br>www.indigohelp.com<br>PHL 458 Week 1 Individual Assignment Critical Thinking and Society Presentation<br><br>PHL 458 Week 1 Individual Assignment Critical and Creative Thinking in Society Short Essays<br><br>PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 1<br><br>PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 2<br><br>PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 3<br><br>PHL 458 Week 2 Individual Assignment Creative Spark Talk Analysis<br>
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PHL 458 Entire Course • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • PHL 458 Week 1 Individual Assignment Critical Thinking and Society Presentation • PHL 458 Week 1 Individual Assignment Critical and Creative Thinking in Society Short Essays • PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 1 • PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 2 • PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 3
PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 1 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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, generating a variety of ideas, and a willingness to take imaginative risks; the second, or judgment phase, kicks in our critical thinking, as the mind goes to work evaluating, distinguishing fact and evidence from sense impression, and running the tests of logic to apply what has been produced (Ruggiero, 2009, pp. 7-8). [Chapter 1: “The Brain & Mind at Work”]
PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 2 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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 (Ruggiero, 2009, pp. 41-42). [Chapter 2: “The Basis of Moral Judgment”] Select ONE of the cases included in our text on pages 46-47 [Application 2.6 at end of CH 2], using the following criteria: If your last name starts with A–J, you are assigned Case A. If your last name starts with K–R, you are assigned Case B. If your last name starts with S–Z, you are assigned Case C.
PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 3 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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 people’s assessments.
PHL 458 Week 1 Individual Assignment Critical and Creative Thinking in Society Short Essays • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Write 150 to 200 words on each of the following topics: • Describe a situation of public interest in which critical and/or creative thought could have been used for a better outcome. Describe why it is important to think critically and creatively in similar situations. • Define free will, truth, knowledge, and opinion. Explain how we use them to form thoughts. What role does each play in critically assessing situations?
PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 1 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Looking over a list of the world’s 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 world’s inventions are already here and in use. What an interesting creativity-blocker that could be! Then delving into the mind of any inventor exposes us to the very creative process itself, to the ways critical thinking shaped original ideas, and to the interesting steps that brought an innovative idea to market. Even the naming of an invention can in itself invite us into the creative process! • Looking over a list of the world’s 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 world’s inventions are already here and in use. What an interesting creativity-blocker that could be! Then delving into the mind of any inventor exposes us to the very creative process itself, to the ways critical thinking shaped original ideas, and to the interesting steps that brought an innovative idea to market. Even the naming of an invention can in itself invite us into the creative process!
PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 2 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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, respond to the following questions:
PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 3 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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 with innovative solutions or novel approaches. Inventors and scientists focus more on problems, while politicians, parents and leaders address human issues.
PHL 458 Week 2 Individual Assignment Creative Spark Talk Analysis • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Review the entire list of talks on the "Creative Spark" TED channel. • Select one talk that is of interest to you and watch it in its entire length. • Write a 700- to 1,050-word summary of the salient points made in the talk and its supporting details that catch your interest.
PHL 458 Week 2 Individual Assignment Solve a Problem Journal • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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). • Search for a personal challenge. Explain how you used the techniques to develop curiosity in your search (see Ch. 6) (Entry 2).
PHL 458 Week 2 Team Assignment Think Different Exercise • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Search for problematic societal issues of public interest and pick one issue you would like to resolve. • Express the issue you found in your search. Refine your expression and include both the original and the refined version. Justify your revision. • Investigate the issue by obtaining necessary information. List the questions you must answer to understand the issue.
PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 1 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these” (ThinkExist.com). Marshall McLuhan called us to an ongoing review of our assumptions: “Most of our assumptions have outlived their usefulness” (ThinkExist.com).
PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 2 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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. Select one problem that is current or as recent as possible for you in one of these areas (or if you cannot come up with one, select one problem covered in Chapter 11), and in a post of 200 to 250 words, respond to the following questions:
PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 3 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Provide an example of a workplace ethical dilemma. If you were the manager, how would you handle the situation? What resources if any would you use to help resolve the problem?
PHL 458 Week 3 Individual Assignment Evaluating Truth and Validity Exercise • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • elect three of the scenarios in the Applications list 12.2 (a.-y.) at the end of Ch. 12 in The Art of Thinking. • Apply the following in 350 to 500 words for each scenario: • Evaluate each argument, using the 4-step process described on p. 218, regarding soundness of reasoning (truth and validity). • Explain your assessment and add alternative argumentation where necessary.
PHL 458 Week 3 Individual Assignment Refining Solutions Visual Organizer • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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. • Produce your refinements using ONE form of Visual Organizer (see below). Include the following components in your Organizer:
PHL 458 Week 3 Team Assignment Evaluating and Refining Resolutions Presentation • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Refine your team’s 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. • Use detailed speaker notes to describe your team’s experience at each stage, and post Presentation as instructed.
PHL 458 Week 3 Team Assignment Solutions Presentation • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Search for problematic societal issues of public interest and pick one issue you would like to resolve. • Express the issue you found in your search. Refine your expression and include both the original and the refined version. Justify your revision. • Investigate the issue by obtaining necessary information. List the questions you must answer to understand the issue.
PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 1 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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):
PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 2 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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 (www.mindtools.com). Select just one of these Strategies and in a Response of 200 to 250 words, respond to the following:
PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 3 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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).
PHL 458 Week 4 Individual Assignment Famous Thinkers Paper (2 Papers) • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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 • Each thinkers’ personal/ social/ political environments and how you think these factors contributed to their creativity
PHL 458 Week 4 Team Assignment Nomination of Creative Hero • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Brainstorm your own list of individuals known as highly creative thinkers (not mentioned in the:Creative Genius List for this week's individual assignment). • Select, as a team, one creative thinker who changed the way people saw and/or experienced the world.
PHL 458 Week 5 Final IQ • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • This Tutorial contains 2 Different PPT • 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, a comprehensive political pamphlet, an interactive game, a website, and so forth.
PHL 458 Week 5 Team Assignment Persuasive Communication Presentation (2 PPT) • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • This Tutorial contains 2 Different PPT • 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, a comprehensive political pamphlet, an interactive game, a website, and so forth.
