PHRL 21000 Practical Logic for Daily Life

GE-Human Culture: Philosophy Everyone benefits from clear and precise thinking, but have you ever learned the rules for such thinking? This course is an introduction to many of the basic features of clear and proper reasoning the nature of arguments and the criteria for evaluating and constructing arguments. We explore exciting practical topics like how to classify and define concepts, how to avoid fallacies and contend with cognitive biases, how to reason in causal, analogical, and legal ways, and much more. like syllogistic reasoning, rules for definitions, informal fallacies, and the basic principles of propositional logic such as translations into formal language, truth evaluations, rules of inference, proofs, and refutations.

Credits

3