1 Portfolio Drexel University Critical Reasoning Philosophy 105 Patrick Denehy This document provides more information about the portfolio project and guidelines to complete each content area to the best of your ability. Use the information here and contained in the syllabus to answer initial questions you may have. And don’t forget to include citations for every piece of text you reference or use to help you formulate your own work. You can either include a short works cited/bibliography at the end of each content area, or one large works cited/bibliography encompassing all content areas. Any style is fine so long as it is consistent. Meeting You need to schedule a 30-minute meeting with me during the term. You should bring two content areas of your choosing with you for review. These need to be full first drafts, not merely ideas or notes. I will read as much as time permits to provide you feedback on how to improve these pieces of writing and approach the remaining content areas. I will also give you a sense of where you stand with your APC grade. Fallacies For the fallacies content area, you should find examples of fallacies committed in texts or videos.* If all else fails, create a dialogue between different persons that represents fallacious arguments you have heard in the past or in which you were personally involved. After providing the fallacy, you should identify the fallacy and then explain how this text, video, or dialogue commits this fallacy. Students usually complete this section in one of three ways. One option is to provide a number of examples with brief explanations (roughly 5-8 fallacies). The second option discusses fewer fallacies in more depth (roughly 2-3 fallacies). Finally, other students take up some issue of the day and locate a number of fallacies in arguments surrounding that issue. This third option usually involves discussing fewer fallacies in depth as well, thereby overlapping with the second option. Morals and Markets While some people attempt to respond to the overall claims of Sandel’s book – and this is all well and good – I encourage everyone to focus on at least two concrete cases or scenarios he raises. This will allow you to provide a more in-depth response or investigate a case even further. Some people also use this as an opportunity to perform light research in order to substantiate or criticize various points in the book. Feel free to bring in other cases that display a dilemma of norms in a market-driven culture. * You should not simply repeat fallacies from our textbook, another logic textbook, or some website dedicated to explaining fallacies. There would be no point to such an exercise. The purpose is to display that you can apply the concept of a fallacy to real-world cases, not ones already identified by others. Finally, if you are wondering why I have included thi ...