Please read assignments before
class, unless otherwise noted.
Monday- Jan. 23
Introduction
Reading for next week: Logic: An
Introduction. Chapter 1 (pdf)
Monday- Jan. 30
Logic: An Introduction Chapters 2 and
3 (file updated 1-30-30)
Today's Smart Board Notes
(pdf)
Monday- Feb. 6
Homework
due today: Exercises 2.3.1 (title = Exercises 2.3.1)
Validity and Invalidity, arguments by Analogy and Induction
Reading for tonight:
Arguments - Valid
and Invalid - (nice summary of much of Chapter 3)
(pdf)
Logic Work-Sheet
(pdf)
Validity
and
Soundness (html)
Inductive
Reasoning
Arguments
by Analogy 1
Smart Board Notes from tonight
Monday- Feb. 13
Homework due today:
1.
Click
here for Homework 1 -
(
Answers available here )
2. Complete the exercises at the bottom of
Logic
Work-Sheet (pdf) - (we will
go over answers in class)
Smartboard notes for tonight
Powerpoints of the fallacy games:
game 1
game 2
Monday- Feb. 20
Homework due tonight:
1.
Arguments by Analogy
Some
selected possible answers/analysis for some of the questions
given in Arguments by Analogy (pdf)
Logical
Fallacies
Some common fallacies have more than one name; here is
a brief list of some of the more important ones:
Begging
the Question (Petitio principii, circular
reasoning), Ad
ignorantium (from ignorance, inability
to be falsified), Weak induction (hasty
generalization, unrepresentative
sample, selective
attention, anecdotal
evidence), Post
Hoc ergo propter hoc (false
cause),
Homework for Monday- Feb.
27: (Title:
Fallacy
Summaries and Examples)
Pick 5 logical fallacies from the above list (chose from
those with an * ), and summarize
in your own words the defining characteristics
of the fallacy, and provide an example of the fallacy.
This
homework will be graded!
Smart Board notes
for today
Monday-
Feb. 27
Homework for
tonight: (Title:
Fallacy
Summaries and Examples)
Pick 5 logical fallacies from the above list (chose from
those with an * ), and summarize
in your own words the defining characteristics
of the fallacy, and provide an example of the fallacy.
This homework will be graded!
More on Fallacies and causality
Come prepared to join fellow classmates in a "Name that
Fallacy" game!
Smart board notes for
tonight
Fallacy games we played tonight (Power points)
game 1
game 2
Monday- March 5
TAKE HOME TEST 1 DUE TONIGHT
AT THE START OF CLASS
Click here for test in
MS Word format, Click here for the test
in PDF format (email if you need other formats, within
reason)
New material for tonight:
Reading List:
1
Study Guide - Relations between Statements (pdf)
Homework for Monday March 12 (revised 3-11-12)
1. Do the 10 exercises at the end of Study
Guide- Relations between Statements. Answers to
odd numbered problems available
here.
Powerpoint of the
Square of Opposition
SmartBoard Notes
Monday- March 12 - Spring Break, no
class
Monday- March 19
Reading List:
A Brief
Introduction to Symbolic Logic (pdf)
Homework for March 26:
1.
Homework
1 (pdf)
Homework
Answers
Smartboard notes for tonight
Monday- March 26
There will be an in-class
quiz testing on Contradictions and Contraries, so
review Study
Guide - Relations between Statements (pdf)
Reading List:
1.
Tautology, Contradiction per se, Contingency, and Logical
Equivalence (pdf)
2.
Translations of Ordinary Language into Symbolic Arguments
3. The
procedure of determining truth-table validity.
Homework for Monday April 2:
1. Do the exercises at the end of
Tautology,
Contradiction
per se, Contingency, and Logical Equivalence (pdf)
ANSWERS
HERE (pdf)
Smartboard notes for tonight
Monday- April 2
1. The procedure of
determining truth-table validity.
Homework for April 9:
1. Use the truth table method to determine the
validity/invalidity of these
arguments (pdf) Answers here (pdf)
2. Use the truth table method to determine the
validity/invalidity of these
arguments (pdf) Answers here (pdf)
Smartboard notes for tonight
Monday- April 9
Reading:
1.
Translations of Ordinary Language into Symbolic Arguments
2. Determining Validity by
Forcing the Conclusion to be False
Homework for April
16:
1.
Translations
of
Ordinary
Language into Symbolic Arguments
2. Do the exercises at the end of Determining Validity by Forcing
the Conclusion to be False
Smart board notes for tonight
Monday- April 16
In class portion of test
3 will cover truth table definitions, logical
equivalence and the truth value of symbolic sentences given
specific values for the constituent variables.
The take-home portion of the test will be posted by tonight
and will deal with translations of ordinary language arguments
into symbolic form, and methods of determining, via truth
table analysis, whether a particular argument is valid or
invalid.
Take home test (due at start of class Monday April 23) pdf
Logic Puzzles - Introduction to the Method
of Deduction
Smartboard notes for
tonight
Monday- April 23
The Method of Deduction
Print out these for reference
: The Rules of Inference (pdf)
Homework due April 30:
Homework 1:
Homework
1 Answers
Homework
2 (pdf)-do all of them but the last problem
Homework 2 answers
(pdf)
MORE (if you did not see these in time, you can do them next
week)
Deduction
Practice
Deduction
Practice ANSWERS
SmartBoard notes for tonight
Monday- April 30
More Deduction - The
Method of Deduction (text scan)
The method of
Indirect and Conditional Proof
Deduction Game
Homework:
Deduction Practice
Test
Deduction
Practice Test - selected answers
Smartboard Notes
Monday- May 7
IN CLASS FINAL EXAM
Review Deduction Practice Test above
deduction game (pdf)
deduction game (powerpoint)
Monday- May 14 (last day of class)
STUDENTS use this class time to talk to me about final grades
(if needed)
