About the Course
In this course we will develop a theoretical and practical grasp of fundamental concepts and techniques of critical thinking and logic as used in contemporary analytic philosophy. The first half of the course is informal. We will learn how to identify and analyse arguments expressed in natural language and we will learn to evaluate those arguments for validity and soundness. We will also learn how to identify invalid arguments and diagnose some familiar fallacies. The second half of the course is about the fundamentals of a basic formal logic: classical propositional logic. We will examine some problems with analysing, evaluating and constructing arguments in natural language. To avoid those problems, we construct a formal language called classical propositional logic. We will learn how to translate natural language arguments into propositional logic and apply formal methods to test them for validity.
Your Instructor
Carlotta, Cecily, Katy
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