Perhaps you are familiar with this situation: two people have different points of view on a matter. The idea is for each person to put forward their arguments and for the parties involved to agree on the most sensible solution to the problem.

But somehow all that happens is an argument: there are personal attacks, things are brought up that are irrelevant to the problem or reference is made to people who have nothing to do with the problem... Bullshit!

This teaching module serves to promote argumentation skills. Based on concrete examples relevant to everyday life, it offers students the opportunity to familiarise themselves with dishonest argumentation strategies, to name them and to expose them as such in future discussions.

The module includes a presentation for implementing the unit in your own lessons as well as a handout to back up the results.

Equipment

Projector, laptop

Licence form

CC BY-SA 4.0

Licence form of the cover image

"Quality Bullshit", photo by Doug Beckers
Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
URL https://flic.kr/p/6ikQxu

Authors

Department of Didactics of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy UOL