%0 Journal Article
%T Donald Trump as a Critical-Thinking Teaching Assistant
%A Stephen Sullivan
%J -
%D 2018
%R https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v38i1.5069
%X Abstract Donald Trump has been a godsend for those of us who teach critical thinking. For he is a fount of manipulative rhetoric, glaring fallacies, conspiracy theories, fake news, and bullshit. In this paper I draw on my own recent teaching experience in order to discuss both the usefulness and the limits of using Trump examples in teaching critical thinking. In Section One I give the framework of the course; in Section Two I indicate Trump¡¯s relevance to many important concepts in the course; and in Section Three I argue that critical thinking instructors should restrain themselves from overreliance on Trump-examples
%U https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/5069