Twelve angry men long assignment

Instructions

In this assignment, I will present you with two arguments: an argument from 12 Angry Men (that you may have reconstructed on your first SBA), and an argument from a US Supreme Court Case which holds that the Civil Rights Act protects LGBT people from employment discrimination. For your convenience, I have provided a reconstruction of each argument. You should use the ARS criteria to assess each argument. That is, you should apply the ARS criteria to determine whether each argument ultimately succeeds or fails to make a strong case for its conclusion.

To do so, you should fill out the tables I have supplied with checks (), exes (), N/As, and question marks (?), corresponding to your analysis. You may refer to the lectureover chapter 5 for guidance about how to do this properly.

You should accompany your filled out-chart with a written argument analysis. If you think the argument is weak, you should diagnose at least one specific flaw in terms of the ARS criteria (indicated by an or a ? on your chart) and explain how it undermines the argument. You should write at least one paragraph about each or ? you put on your chart. If youthink the argument is strong, you should defend it from at least two likely criticisms. That is, think of two specific objectionsthat a critic might raise. Make sure you indicate what aspect of the argument those criticisms would undermine in terms of the acceptability, relevance, or sufficiency of the premises (i.e. tell me where the critic you have imagined would put an or ? on their chart.) Then you should rebut those criticisms to explain why you think the argument remains strong.