LOs

ah-pel-assumptions:
- What need to be true for the premises or the argument to be true, but is not stated here?
- What’s the background context
- Where does this assumption pop up? What is taken for granted?
ah-pel-challenges
ah-pel-distinctiondefinitions
ah-pel-empiricalnormative:
- empirical: information or knowledge that is based on observation, experience, or experimentation
- normative: what should be done, is it valid (morally and politically)
- evidence: data or information that supports or contradicts a claim
- Used to unentangle empirical and normative assumptions
- Authors might make empirical evidence to arrive at normative claims (but normative assumptions may lurk in process )
- We can use empirical evidence and logic to contradict, refute premises of theoretical argument.
ah-pel-implications

Interpretive LOs

ah164-designlogics: Uncover and articulate the assumptions and belief systems informing and shaping design trends.
- Look at the choices behind institutions, frameworks,
- Consider the intersection of several lens/assumptions (since they’re difficult to disentangle)
- It’s more background values or beliefs, NOT implicit premises/assumptions of philosophical arguments
ah-socialframes: Explain how social frames (e.g., economic, ethical, political, environmental) influence the effective solutions to complex problems.
- Focus on the effectiveness or the influence of social frameworks
- Requires the description of the problem
ah164-politicalrepresentation: Engage critically with ways in which philosophical theories define and defend democracy, political participation, collective self-rule, and/or institutions for fair decision-making, and etc
- Apply when you explain an author’s arguments by closely examining key terms and concepts, and defining them clearly, or by explaining how an author defer as a claim/conclusion by developing the reasons they offer.
- Strong applications often look for implicit elements in a text, like the background assumptions and their impact on the argument, or the implications of particular claims or conclusions for other philosophical or real-world commitments.
- HCs that are especially helpful to pair with this LO: evidencebased, critique, connotation

Logitics (Fall 2024)

Pre-requisite: Minerva AH111 Morality, Identity, and Justice
Syllabus
Prof Yates
- Fridays 8:15-9:00am ET (New York) by appointment — https://calendar.app.google/CLD8zkFzLMJdwaEQ7 (google hangout)
- Fridays 9:00-9:30am ET (New York) drop-in (Forum OH room).
TA Mona
- Wednesday 8AM PST https://forum.minerva.edu/app/courses/455/sections/28/classes/87414