PHL 276 - Logic & Critical Thinking

3 Credits

This course focuses on three major domains of logic and critical thinking. Focus one attends to the structure of arguments and the deductive standards of validity and soundness, including further exploration of validity through truth tables. The second focus is on fallacies, particularly informal fallacies and the development of skills to recognize these poor reasoning patterns and explain why they are faulty. The third focus addresses the identification, evaluation, and construction of various kinds of inductive argumentation, with particular attention towards reasoning about research methods, statistics, and probability.