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.

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唐纳德特朗普作为批判性思维助教

对于我们这些教授批判性思维的人来说，唐纳德特朗普是天赐之物。因为他是操纵言论、明显谬论、阴谋论、假新闻和胡说八道的源泉。在这篇论文中，我借鉴了我自己最近的教学经验，以讨论在教授批判性思维中使用特朗普的例子的有用性和局限性。在第一节中，我给出了课程的框架；在第二部分中，我指出了特朗普与课程中许多重要概念的相关性；在第三节中，我认为批判性思维教师应该克制自己不要过度依赖特朗普的例子。