Critical Thinking

Course Information

• Critical Thinking Basic Course Information
• Clicker purchase and bulletin board
• Registering your clicker in Philosophy 101
• Quick look at definitions of basic terms

Jesuit Education Sources

Some Student Pages

• Student Practice Page
• Information Diet Exercise
• Field Notes
• Student Model Work
• Authoritativeness Game
• Research Topics
• Critical Thinking Study Guide official version

Articles for Reconstruction & Other Resources

• Paul Krugman,"Panic of the Plutocrats," [1]
• New York Times Video Blog: Bloggingheads: One-State Solution?

Gershom Gorenberg, left, author of “The Unmaking of Israel,” and Dimi Reider of +972 Magazine debate the one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict[2]

• Nicholas Kristoff, "Is Israel Its Own Worst Enemey?" NYT [3]
• Gene Heally, "Abolish the Department of Homeland Security," Reason, September 27, 2011 [4]
• Here's an interesting one from Salon. [5]
• Visit this economist debate and reconstruction Jack Snyder's article against the proposition [6]
• Reconstruction Article #1: Suzanne Mettler, "Our Hidden Government Benefits," NYT [7] Reconstruction of Mettler, Our Hidden Government Benefits
• Reconstruction Article #2: Editor, "Obama Hits Bottom," National Review

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• Reconstruction Article #3: Derek Thompson, "Obama's 'Class Warfare': It's Not About Class, It's About Age," The Atlantic, [9]
• Recon #4: Darren Murph, "Editorial: Reed Hastings' Netflix spinoff isn't about DVD success, it's about hedging the stream," Engadget, [10]
• Fall 2010 Articles for Reconstruction
• Systems Theory Introduction [11]

Previous Course Experience

• Critical Thinking Articles for Reconstruction
• Past Critical Thinking Research Pages
• Previous Course Versions and Assignments and Previous to the wiki
• Good future topics: Is it just to limit job and educational opportunities for people with criminal records?
• Study Guide with student notes from Fall 2010