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PHL 458 Entire Course

• 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 (2
  Papers)
• PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 1
• PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 2
• PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 3
• PHL 458 Week 2 Individual Assignment Creative
  Spark Talk Analysis
• PHL 458 Week 2 Team Assignment Think Different
  Exercise
• PHL 458 Week 2 Individual Assignment Solve a
  Problem Journal PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 1
• PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 2
• PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 3

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PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 1

• Week 1 DQ 1
• 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

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PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 2

• Week 1 DQ 2
• 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 AJ, you are assigned Case
  A. If your last name starts with KR, you are
  assigned Case B. If your last name starts with
  SZ, you are assigned Case C.

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PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 3

• Week 1 DQ 3
• 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
  peoples assessments.

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PHL 458 Week 1 Individual Assignment Critical and
Creative Thinking in Society Short Essays (2
Papers)

• This Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers 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? Identify three
  hindrances to the critical thinking process.
  Determine methods for overcoming these
  hindrances. Identify a time in which you
  experienced a hindrance in critical thinking.

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PHL 458 Week 1 Individual Assignment Critical
Thinking and Society Presentation

• Present on each of the following topics with a
  slide or two/bullet
• Describe a situation in which critical and
  creative thought could have been used for a
  better outcome. This could be a personal or
  societal problem or issue. Describe why it is
  important to think critically and creatively in
  similar situations (2 slides).
• Define free will, truth, knowledge, and opinion.
  Explain how we use them to form thoughts, and how
  they may bear on your problem or issue (4
  slides).
• Identify three hindrances to the
  critical/creative thinking process. Determine
  methods for overcoming these hindrances. Identify
  a hindrance in critical or creative thinking
  that affected youre solution or approach to the
  problem or issue here. Describe a method you
  could use to overcome the hindrances (3 or 4
  slides).

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PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 1

• Week 2 DQ 1
• Looking over a list of the worlds 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 worlds 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.

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PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 2

• Week 2 DQ 2
• 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
• 2.1 Describe some strategies employed by your
  famous thinker to activate his or her
  imagination, such as uncommon responses, free
  association, analogy, unusual combinations,
  visualization, pro and con arguments, and
  relevant scenarios.

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PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 3

• Week 2 DQ 3
• 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.
• Select ONE of the following issues and do a quick
  Internet search for some background on it
• The fast-food industrys relation to obesity
• Granting rights to illegal immigrants

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PHL 458 Week 2 Individual Assignment Creative
Spark Talk Analysis

• 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.
  Indicate the name and position of the speaker and
  the location and year of the talk in your
  summary. Conclude your summary with a reflection
  of the following How the talk's content
  illuminates some of the stages of creativity How
  the topic of the talk relates to the concepts of
  imagination and curiosity How some of the points
  made in the talk might apply to your personal
  experience and benefit society as a whole Format
  your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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PHL 458 Week 2 Individual Assignment Solve a
Problem Journal

• 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).

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PHL 458 Week 2 Team Assignment Think Different
Exercise

• In 1997, Apple, Inc. supported its "Think
  Different" marketing campaign with a 1-minute
  commercial featuring black-and-white footage of
  17 iconic 20th-century personalities. The
  commercial was conceptualized by the Los
  Angeles-based advertising agency TBWA/Chiat/Day.
  Find a copy of this commercial, also known as the
  "Crazy Ones" commercial, on the Internet and
  watch it. Identify the 17 individuals shown in
  the background and, as a team, discuss the
  following questions What did each of the
  individuals contribute to the world?

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PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 1

• Week 3 DQ 1
• 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).

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PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 2

• Week 3 DQ 2
• 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

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PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 3

• Week 3 DQ 3
• Chapter 12 in our text helps us critically think
  through arguments and issues we may face in our
  lives. Errors may affect the truth of the issue,
  they may affect the validity of a premise or
  conclusion, or a hidden premise that may
  side-track a solution. Dealing with simple or
  complex arguments takes practice.
• Select ONE of the Applications on pp. 222-224,
  and practice your creative and critical skills by
  responding to the following questions, for that
  Application
• Share the Application you selected. If you think
  it is a complex argument, identify the parts, and
  state whether you think there is a hidden premise
  implied

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PHL 458 Week 3 Individual Assignment Evaluating
Truth and Validity Exercise

• Select 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. Format
  your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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PHL 458 Week 3 Individual Assignment Refining
Solutions Visual Organizer

• 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
• Original issue
• Initial solutions
• Critical examination of best solution

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PHL 458 Week 3 Team Assignment Evaluating and
Refining Resolutions Presentation

• Refine your teams 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
  teams experience at each stage, and post
  Presentation as instructed.

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PHL 458 Week 3 Team Assignment Solutions
Presentation (New)

• 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. Conclude
  your investigation with a thorough explanation of
  the issue, including answers to each of the
  questions you identified. Produce ideas toward
  resolving this issue.

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PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 1

• Week 4 DQ 1
• 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)
• How did your person refine his or her solution?

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PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 2

• Week 4 DQ 2
• 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

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PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 3

• Week 4 DQ 3
• 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). Some of the issues they have
  responded to have been quite esoteric, such as
  where or how the human brain connects with the
  mind and thinking process (Plato Descartes).
  Many of the early philosophers tried to explain
  how life changes, but also maintains some
  continuity (Pythagoras Socrates). Others
  wrestled with the question of how to create and
  administer a just society (Kant Rawls). Some
  have explored the interesting nature of being,
  and how to be true to that essential nature
  (Spinoza Heidegger).

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PHL 458 Week 4 Individual Assignment Famous
Thinkers Paper

• 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
• The problems or issues that their ideas sought to
  solve

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PHL 458 Week 4 Team Assignment Nomination of
Creative Hero

• Brainstorm your own list of individuals known as
  highly creative thinkers (not mentioned in the
  University of Phoenix Material 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. Summarize, in 350 to 500 words,
  thisindividual's contributions and make a solid
  argument for why he or she should be included in
  any list of important creative thinkers. Include
  a brief comparison to the thinkers your team
  members selected for their individual assignments
  this week Do they share similar creative
  processes and/or environments? Format your
  assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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PHL 458 Week 5 Final IQ

• Week 5 Final IQ
• Most of us do not think about our legacy in our
  twenties or thirties or forties. Somewhere in our
  fifties, or at midlife, we begin to wonder what
  our legacy will be to our kids, our family, our
  community and workers, and our world. Legacy can
  be defined as .
• Our use of what we have learned in this course,
  critical and creative thinking skills and
  methods, does have something to do with our
  legacy.

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PHL 458 Week 5 Team Assignment Persuasive
Communication Presentation

• 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.

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