Socratic Dialogue Take-Home Midterm Resources

PHIL 109: Socratic Dialogue Take-Home Midterm Resources

Take-Home Midterm: Write a 9-page Socratic Dialogue (or a Dialogue with Confucius, using Socratic Method) applying critical thinking to a conspiracy theory

 

To prepare to compose a Socratic Dialogue on

how Socrates would approach a conspiracy theory, please read this article:

 

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/06/07/fake-news-disinformation-propoganda-truth-rhetoric-twitter-president-trump-ancient-greek-philosophers-socrates-plato-truth/ideas/essay/

 

For more details on

how disinformation works, please read Christopher Paul and Miriam Matthews, The Russian Firehose of Falsehood Propaganda Model:

Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It (RAND Corporation, 2016): https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE100/PE198/RAND_PE198.pdf

and also The Cause of Americas Post-Truth Predicament: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-cause-of-americas-post-truth-predicament/

 

Additional Reference Materials:

 

Robert Arp, Steven Barbone, & Michael Bruce, Bad Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Fallacies in Western Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018). ISBN 1119167906.

 

Katelyn Beaty, QAnon: The alternative religion thats coming to your church, RNS (Aug 17, 2020): <https://religionnews.com/2020/08/17/qanon-the-alternative-religion-thats-coming-to-your-church/>.

 

Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone, Just the Arguments (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). <https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/twu/detail.action?docID=819315>

 

Peter Kreeft, Socratic Logic, Edition 3.1 (St. Augustines Press, 2010).

See the section on fallacies: pages 68122, especially 6971. ISBN 9781587318085.

 

Stephan Lewandowsky, Gilles E. Gignac, and Klaus Oberauer, The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science, PLOS ONE 8.10 (Oct

 

2013): 1-11.

 

<https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0075637&type=printable >. Sander van der Linden, What a Hoax, Scientific American Mind (Sep-Oct 2013): 41-43.

 

<https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/slinden/files/conspiracyvanderlinden.pdf>. Melinda Wenner Moyer, People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of

 

Psychological Features, Scientific American 320.3 (March 2019): 58-63. <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-drawn-to-conspiracy-theories-share-a-cluster-of-psychological-features/>.

 

Melinda Wenner Moyer, A Wave of Resurgent Epidemics Has Hit the U.S., Scientific American 318.5 (May 2018): 44-57. <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-wave-of-resurgent-epidemics-has-hit-the-u-s/>.

 

Christopher S. Morrissey, The Way of Logic (Nanjing Normal University Press, 2018). ISBN 9787565135774. <https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07C5K7S9W>.

 

Plato, Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus. (Loeb Classical Library. 1913): <https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L036.pdf>.

 

Asha Rangappa and Jennifer Mercieca, The Ancient Greeks Guide to Rejecting Propaganda And Disinformation, Zocalo Public Square (June 7, 2020):

 

<https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/06/07/fake-news-disinformation-propoganda-truth-rhetoric-twitter-president-trump-ancient-greek-philosophers-socrates-plato-truth/ideas/essay/>. Brett Salkeld, Catholic Creationism as a Conspiracy Theory, Church Life Journal (May 13,

 

2020): <https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/catholic-creationism-as-a-conspiracy-theory/>. Richard Stengel, Domestic Disinformation Is a Greater Menace Than Foreign

 

Disinformation, Time (June 26, 2020): <https://time.com/5860215/domestic-disinformation-growing-menace-america/?amp=true>.

 

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