Materials
Day 1: Disproof. pdf
materials
on ingredients of proof found
in newspaper articles, and selections
from the London Guardian on the Rambouillet `agreement'.
Day 2: Comparative method. Article by Marc Bloch on the
comparative method handed out ("A contribution towards a comparative
history of European Societies", in Land and Work in Mediaeval
Europe: Selected Papers by Marc Bloch (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1967), plus these pdf
materials for
comparing how the New York Times reported the US invasion
of Panama with how it reported the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
Day 3: Comparing US invasion of Panama with Iraqi
invasion of Kuwait. pdf
Day 4: US embargo on Vietnam after the war. pdf. I also handed out (but haven't included in
the pdf) a marked up copy of the article on genetically modified foods
that is in the Day 1 material. The pages are marked up with 'p' for
postulate, 'd' for definition, 't' for theorem, 's' for proof step,
'a' for assumption, 'nc' for name-calling, 'cs' for card stacking,
'tr' for transfer, 'te' for testimonital, 'gg' for glittering
generality; see the list of techniques in the Day 1 and Day 2
materials).
Day 5: No additional readings handed out. We discussed the
Vietnam material from day 4.
Day 6: Bombing of Afghanistan. pdf.