Online Study Guide for Philosophy 3
(Introduction to Ethics)
Sandra LaFave
West Valley College
This
is the online study guide for Philosophy 3.
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Online Resources
Online Notes
The following
are required reading for Barbra Upton's sections of Philosophy 3. If
you are taking Phil 3 online, all the following files have already been
incorporated into the class in Angel, so you don't really have to use
this Study Guide.
Who
wrote this online study guide? Unless otherwise indicated, Sandra
LaFave (Philosophy department chair), wrote everything listed here.
So, it would be really dumb to plagiarize from these notes, right?
Please note that these readings are IN ADDITION TO the assigned readings listed in
the
Syllabus.
Readings for Test on Critical Thinking
- Study Guide for Critical Thinking Test
- What Is Philosophy?
- Introduction to Ethics
- Why Study Ethics? Stockdale's Answer
- Why Study Logic?
- Steps in Argument Analysis -- A Critical Thinking
Checklist
- What is Bad Logic?
- Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
- Open and Closed Concepts and
the Continuum
Fallacy
- The Fallacies of Composition and
Division
- Online resources for informal fallacies
- On fallacies
of relevance (irrelevant emotional appeals, ad hominem,
appeal to questionable authority, appeal to ignorance, etc.)
- On fallacies
of presumption (accident, false cause, begging the question,
complex question, etc.)
- On fallacies
of ambiguity (equivocation, amphiboly, composition, division,
accent)
- Excellent general site on fallacies ("The
Fallacy Files")
- Comprehensive
list of fallacies -- Host site is decidedly atheist and
uses religious arguments as examples of fallacies.
- Practical logic for
Christians -- Host site for Christian home-schooling parents
- Self Test on Logic Concepts
- Self Test on Fallacies
Readings for Test on Writing
Metaethics
Normative Ethics
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