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1. PHL 458 Read, Lead, Succeed/Uophelpdotcom For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com

2. PHL 458 Entire Course For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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

3. PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 1 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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”]

4. PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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 A–J, you are assigned Case A. If your last name starts with K–R, you are assigned Case B. If your last name starts with S–Z, you are assigned Case C.

5. PHL 458 Week 1 DQ 3 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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 people’s assessments. That process of being exposed to society- home, neighborhood, church, school, and so on, is called acculturation. The author of our text encourages us to examine the values and beliefs we have assumed to be true: “Make your beliefs prove themselves, not on the basis of their familiarity or their compatibility with other ideas, but on their reasonableness in light of the evidence” (Ruggiero, 2009, p. 54). [Chapter 3: “Habits That Hinder Thinking”]

6. PHL 458 Week 1 Individual Assignment Critical and Creative Thinking in Society Short Essays (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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?

7. PHL 458 Week 1 Individual Assignment Critical Thinking and Society Presentation For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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).

8. PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 1 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Looking over a list of the world’s 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 world’s 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. Even the naming of an invention can in itself invite us into the creative process!

9. PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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. 2.2 Analyze the effect that this famous thinker’s creativity has had on society and culture.

10. PHL 458 Week 2 DQ 3 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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 industry’s relation to obesity Granting rights to illegal immigrants Auto accidents caused by cell phone use Restoring voting rights to rehabilitated felons Regulation of abortions at state versus federal level

11. PHL 458 Week 2 Individual Assignment Creative Spark Talk Analysis For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com  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.

12. PHL 458 Week 2 Individual Assignment Solve a Problem Journal For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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). Express the problem created by this personal challenge (see Ch. 7). Refine your expression of the problem by considering multiple perspectives and deciding which expression is best. Include both the initial and the refined version. Justify your revision (Entry 3).

13. PHL 458 Week 2 Team Assignment Think Different Exercise For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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? How was each of these contributions rooted in creative thinking; that is, how did each change existing paradigms of seeing or experiencing the world? Are there defining characteristics shared among all or most of the individuals? What is the value of imagination and thinking outside the box with regard to their contributions?

14. PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 1 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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).

15. PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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: State the problem concisely, using enough detail as you feel is needed, but changing names or places if necessary to keep confidences. Apply the three major problem solving steps covered in this chapter, aiming to propose a solution to you problem, that logically follows the steps used. How would you evaluate the effectiveness of the solution you are proposing?

16. PHL 458 Week 3 DQ 3 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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. Evaluate the argument and decide whether you think it is sound or not. Explain… Select ONE of the errors discussed in this chapter that you observe most in persuasive situations. How do you react to it when you confront it?

17. PHL 458 Week 3 Individual Assignment Evaluating Truth and Validity Exercise For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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.

18. PHL 458 Week 3 Individual Assignment Refining Solutions Visual Organizer For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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 Evaluation of the argument Revised argument Refined solution with implementation plan Final solution

19. PHL 458 Week 3 Team Assignment Evaluating and Refining Resolutions Presentation For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Refine your team’s 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 team’s experience at each stage, and post Presentation as instructed.  Include one or two slides on each of the following: Original issue Initial resolutions Critical examination of best resolution Evaluation of the argument Revised argument Refined resolution with implementation plan Final resolution

20. PHL 458 Week 3 Team Assignment Solutions Presentation (New) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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. Take note of all of your initial ideas--whether you think they are ridiculous or serious is not important. Discuss the two ideas that you think are the most imaginative, original, and positive potential solutions to the issue.

21. PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 1 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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? How did he or she recognize and overcome difficulties and opposition to this solution? Respond to one of the following: How did the discovery or revolution your person brought into being relate to the creative process; how was his or her contribution communicated to society? Or what strategies of persuasion were used?

22. PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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: 2.1  What is the nature of the strategy you selected (define and describe it)? 2.2  Give one good example of the application of this strategy to a problem or issue you have selected for this exercise… 2.3  Comment on when and in what kinds of situations, this strategy might be employed… 2.4  Analyze this strategy in terms of its “creative or critical power”…

23. PHL 458 Week 4 DQ 3 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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). Many have debated and explored the nature of language and how it impacts society and power (Wittgenstein & Foucault). And others have made as their major project the creation of a new man who transforms society, hopefully for the better (Hegel & Marx).

24. PHL 458 Week 4 Individual Assignment Famous Thinkers Paper (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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 A description of the solutions, and how their ideas were implemented The creative process of each thinker and a comparison of the two creative processes A critique of their ideas and what could they have done differently Include at least four references.

25. PHL 458 Week 4 Team Assignment Nomination of Creative Hero For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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.

26. PHL 458 Week 5 Final IQ For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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. 

27. PHL 458 Week 5 Team Assignment Persuasive Communication Presentation (2 PPT) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com 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. Explain why you chose your format for your intended audience. Create a presentation of your message as you would present it to your intended audience. Include the following in your presentation: Consider possible reasons your audience might reject your ideas. Address anticipated audience objections to your proposal. Devise strategies for persuading your audience to accept your proposal and incorporate that persuasion in your presentation of the message.

28. PHL 458 Read, Lead, Succeed/Uophelpdotcom For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com