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    The Philosopher's Toolkit helps build an excellent intellectual foundation to actively engage students in the philosophical practice of thinking, arguing, questioning, and philosophizing about any and every subject imaginable. This easy-to-follow lesson plan helps students answer relevant questions while focusing their attention on employing valuable skills toward highly engaging subjects. Teachers can introduce technology, science fiction, gaming, and other relevant concepts to keep students engaged while simultaneously introducing new vocabulary and concepts students can apply across academic disciplines and in everyday life. The creativity a teacher brings to this material is of his or her own making. Have fun with it! These questions and answers are from Chapter 1: Basic Tools for Argument (1.1: Arguments, premises and conclusions) pgs. 1 - 6. My Recommended Reading after this chapter is different from what the book suggests. I recommend "The Logic of Alice: Clear Thinking in Wonderland" by Bernard M. Patten. Personal note from Dr. Laughing: I create these lesson plans, questions, study guides, etc. for my own children. My son just turned 15-years old, but this material could easily be presented to precocious 12+ year olds. *Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the publisher of this book, Wiley-Blackwell and/or with the book's authors: Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl. I simply present this material for teachers and parents who might stumble upon this book or lesson plan, who do not have time to write these questions up themselves, and who might consider this a fun alternative to traditional lesson plans floating around the phenomenal world of modern academia. Since I create these for my kids, I thought it would be nice to share them for anyone who has an interest in teaching philosophical thinking to kids or who have kids with natural philosophical bents (i.e., they ask a lot of questions).

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    The Philosopher's Toolkit helps build an excellent intellectual foundation to actively engage students in the philosophical practice of thinking, arguing, questioning, and philosophizing about any and every subject imaginable. This easy-to-follow lesson plan helps students answer relevant questions while focusing their attention on employing valuable skills toward highly engaging subjects. Teachers can introduce technology, science fiction, gaming, and other relevant concepts to keep students engaged while simultaneously introducing new vocabulary and concepts students can apply across academic disciplines and in everyday life. The creativity a teacher brings to this material is of his or her own making. Have fun with it! These questions and answers are from Chapter 1: Basic Tools for Argument (1.1: Arguments, premises and conclusions) pgs. 1 - 6. My Recommended Reading after this chapter is different from what the book suggests. I recommend "The Logic of Alice: Clear Thinking in Wonderland" by Bernard M. Patten. Personal note from Dr. Laughing: I create these lesson plans, questions, study guides, etc. for my own children. My son just turned 15-years old, but this material could easily be presented to precocious 12+ year olds. *Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the publisher of this book, Wiley-Blackwell and/or with the book's authors: Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl. I simply present this material for teachers and parents who might stumble upon this book or lesson plan, who do not have time to write these questions up themselves, and who might consider this a fun alternative to traditional lesson plans floating around the phenomenal world of modern academia. Since I create these for my kids, I thought it would be nice to share them for anyone who has an interest in teaching philosophical thinking to kids or who have kids with natural philosophical bents (i.e., they ask a lot of questions).

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    The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

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    The Philosopher's Toolkit helps build an excellent intellectual foundation to actively engage students in the philosophical practice of thinking, arguing, questioning, and philosophizing about any and every subject imaginable. This easy-to-follow lesson plan helps students answer relevant questions while focusing their attention on employing valuable skills toward highly engaging subjects. Teachers can introduce technology, science fiction, gaming, and other relevant concepts to keep students engaged while simultaneously introducing new vocabulary and concepts students can apply across academic disciplines and in everyday life. The creativity a teacher brings to this material is of his or her own making. Have fun with it! These questions and answers are from Chapter 1: Basic Tools for Argument (1.1: Arguments, premises and conclusions) pgs. 1 - 6. My Recommended Reading after this chapter is different from what the book suggests. I recommend "The Logic of Alice: Clear Thinking in Wonderland" by Bernard M. Patten. Personal note from Dr. Laughing: I create these lesson plans, questions, study guides, etc. for my own children. My son just turned 15-years old, but this material could easily be presented to precocious 12+ year olds. *Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the publisher of this book, Wiley-Blackwell and/or with the book's authors: Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl. I simply present this material for teachers and parents who might stumble upon this book or lesson plan, who do not have time to write these questions up themselves, and who might consider this a fun alternative to traditional lesson plans floating around the phenomenal world of modern academia. Since I create these for my kids, I thought it would be nice to share them for anyone who has an interest in teaching philosophical thinking to kids or who have kids with natural philosophical bents (i.e., they ask a lot of questions).

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    The Philosophers Toolkit A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods Second Edition Julian Baggini and Peter S.

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    1.1 Arguments, premises and conclusions General Comprehension/Questions: 1. What sort of questions does philosophy address? 2. Why are Philosophers nitpickers? 3. What is an argument? 4. What is a premise? 5. What is a conclusion? 6. What is the difference between an argument and an explanation? 7. What essential quality must a premise exhibit? 8. What is an enthymeme? 9. I exist is a basic premise. True or False. 10. Which branch of philosophers believed that certain sentences were selfevident or cataleptic? 11. Which branch of philosophers believed that information was directly related to the senses, sense perception, or sense data? 12. Which branch of philosophers believed that information could be grasped by a power called intuition or insight? 13. Which branch of philosophers believed that information was revealed to us by God? 14. Which branch of philosophers believed that we could grasp information using cognitive faculties (certified by God)? 15. Define the word explicit.

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    The Philosophers Toolkit A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods Second Edition Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl

    General Comprehension/Answers: 1. Philosophy addresses some of the most important questions human beings ask themselves. (pg. 1) 2. Philosophers are nitpickers because they are concerned with the ways in which beliefs we have about the world either are or are not supported by rational argument. (pg. 1) 3. An argument is the most basic complete unit of reasoning, an atom of reason. (pg. 2) 4. A premise is a starting point from which one presents a truth claim. (pg. 2) 5. A conclusion is an end-point in which one presents a truth claim (pg. 2). A conclusion is the product and result of an inference of a chain of inferences. (pg. 3) 6. Arguments attempt to demonstrate that something is true, while explanations attempt to show how something is true. (pg. 2) 7. A premise must make a claim that is either true or false. (pg. 4) 8. An enthymeme is an unstated premise. (pg. 4) 9. True. I exist could indeed be considered a basic premise, though not all philosophers agree. (pg. 5) 10. The Stoics believed that certain sentences were cataleptic. (pg. 5) 11. The Positivists believed that information could be gained directly from sense data. (pg. 5) 12. The Platonists believed that information could be grasped by intuition or insight. (pg. 5) 13. The religious philosophers believed that information is revealed to us by God. (pg. 5) 14. The followers of Descartes believed that we could grasp information using cognitive faculties certified by God. 15. Explicit is something that is stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt.

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