Philosophy 213 - Logic

Fall
2013
01
4.00
Alexander George

TTH 08:30AM-09:50AM

Amherst College
PHIL-213-01-1314F
MERR 4
ageorge@amherst.edu

"All philosophers are wise and Socrates is a philosopher; therefore, Socrates is wise." Our topic is this therefore. We shall expose the hidden structure of everyday statements on which the correctness of our reasoning turns. To aid us, we shall develop a logical language that makes this underlying structure more perspicuous. We shall also examine fundamental concepts of logic and use them to explore the logical properties of statements and the logical relations between them. This is a first course in formal logic, the study of correct reasoning; no previous philosophical, mathematical, or logical training needed.


Fall semester. Professor A. George.

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