Logic and Critical Analysis

Aristotle famously said that human beings are the "rational animal." However, human beings are prone to various kinds of irrationality, including prejudicial biases and stereotypes as well as common fallacies to which all human beings can be susceptible. Because of this, human beings do not always reason well. Logic is a system developed to help compensate for the fact that we are imperfect reasoners, which involves developing principles of sound reasoning that can be used to evaluate arguments and which inform the design of contemporary computer systems. This course provides an introduction to logic. After taking this course, you will be able to evaluative arguments using formal systems, distinguish good forms of reasoning, construct better arguments, and (to some extent) think orderly. Additionally, logic is essential in other fields that you might also be interested in, including law, computer science, linguistics, mathematics, and analytic philosophy. Finally, logic is a lot of fun. The course presumes no background in philosophy or logic.
Course Attributes: FA NSM; BU Hum; AR NSM; AS NSM; AS AN

Logic and Critical Analysis

PHILOSOPHY 100G

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