Critical Thinking and Argumentation
Program: Criminal Justice
The course aims at providing students with practical skills in argumentation and critical thinking. It makes students familiar with general principles of rational argumentation and basic forms of arguments both in theoretical and practical discourse. Exam topics: Argument as a speech act. Recognizing arguments. Reconstructing and analysing arguments. Plausibility of arguments. Evaluating arguments. Constructing arguments. Basic types of deductive and non-deductive arguments. Recognizing fallacious and abusive argumentation. Basic principles of rational argumentation. Conversational implicatures.
