Donald Trump as a critical-thinking teaching assistant. Sullivan, S. Informal Logic, 38(1):118–132, 2018.
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Donald Trump has been a godsend for those of us who teach critical thinking. For he is a fount of manipulative rhetoric, glaring fallacies, conspiracy theories, fake news, and bullshit. In this paper I draw on my own recent teaching experience in order to discuss both the usefulness and the limits of using Trumpexamples in teaching critical thinking. In Section One I give the framework of the course; in Section Two I indicate Trump's relevance to many important concepts in the course; and in Section Three I argue that criticalthinking instructors should restrain themselves from overreliance on Trump-examples. © 2018, Stephen Sullivan.
@article{sullivan_donald_2018,
	title = {Donald {Trump} as a critical-thinking teaching assistant},
	volume = {38},
	doi = {10.22329/il.v38i1.5069},
	abstract = {Donald Trump has been a godsend for those of us who teach critical thinking. For he is a fount of manipulative rhetoric, glaring fallacies, conspiracy theories, fake news, and bullshit. In this paper I draw on my own recent teaching experience in order to discuss both the usefulness and the limits of using Trumpexamples in teaching critical thinking. In Section One I give the framework of the course; in Section Two I indicate Trump's relevance to many important concepts in the course; and in Section Three I argue that criticalthinking instructors should restrain themselves from overreliance on Trump-examples. © 2018, Stephen Sullivan.},
	number = {1},
	journal = {Informal Logic},
	author = {Sullivan, S.},
	year = {2018},
	keywords = {Balance, Critical thinking, Donald trump, Fallacies, Rhetoric},
	pages = {118--132}
}

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