The Potential Conflict between Logically Sound and Rhetorically Effective Arguments
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Watch this 2016 televised exchange between former Speaker of the House and college history professor, Newt Gingrich, and a CNN reporter.-- https://vimeo.com/user8588759/review/181527284/7d5da943cb .
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Listen to the "Hidden Brain" podcast "I'm right; you're wrong" on the role emotional appeals play in convincing someone to change her/his mind and accept your argument located in this week's Additional Resources. (attached)
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1. What is the nature of Gingrich's disagreement with the CNN reporter and how does it relate to the subject of developing critical thinking which is a major learning objective of this course? Does this phenomenon happen beyond the political spectrum as well even to the more sanitized world of scientific inquiry? Provide a specific example or two.
2. Have you changed your mind about something that you believed fairly passionately about during the last five years? If so, what do you think affected your conversion?Â
3. On the other hand have there been opinions that you would refuse to relinquish regardless of the preponderance of factual evidence against them? Why do you think that is?
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Read this Boston Globe article -- http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/ .
4. How might a course like this one help resolve these inconsistencies? Here is where the Boston Globe article above might give us a glimmer of hope.
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