SEMINAR 7: DIVIDED BY OUR EQUALITIES?

OR UNITED BY
OUR DIFFERENCES, THE ROLE OF CRITICAL THINKING IN
TODAY’S WORLD

2023/1
ACTIVIDADES
1. Reading of relatoría and protocol
2. Assigning roles for next session
3. Discussing about What is non critical thinking and common fallacies
3. Talking about privacy – definition/characteristics background
knowledge
4. Rewiewing Pegasus spyware
5. Common fallacies reactions to Pegasus Spyware/Edward Snowden’s
take on it
6.Reading assignment/discussion George Orwell 1984 chapter 1
Ss’ takeaways regarding rivacy
7. Gathering/Filtering facts and information
for first academic writing attempt –
argumentative text – Author’s take on :
“Public Parts, How Sharing in the Digital Age
Improves the Way We Work and Live”.
The Economist video clip: “China: facial
recognition and state control”
Article: “PRIVACY, Exploring the History of
Privacy and Our Predictions for Its Future”
8. Gathering/Filtering facts and information
for first academic writing attempt –
argumentative text – TIPS Basic structure of
argumentative texts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z_ Taken from:
noeUjqiw&t=150s&ab_channel=Simon% https://buzzmachine.com/publicpa
26SchusterBooks rts/
https://piiano.com/blog/history-of-pri
vacy-and-future-predictions/
Brunner, D. (2022) What is privacy -
exploring the history of privacy, Piiano.
Available at:
https://piiano.com/blog/history-of-
privacy-and-future-predictions/
(Accessed: February 13, 2023).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH2
gMNrUuEY&ab_channel=TheEconomist

Taken from:
https://www.youtube.com/@The
Economist
https://www.theguardian.com/news/se
ries/pegasus-project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7H9uo
3j5FQ&ab_channel=TheGuardian
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=I5WjTTi67BE&t=4s&ab_c
hannel=TheGuardian
Ad hominem
Appeal to force
Genetic fallacy
Appeal to
tradition
Argumentum
ad Populum
Appeal to
emotion
Begging the
question
 Hasty
generalization
False cause
Straw man
Slippery slope