Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Reason & Argument A
Course Number:
PHI00005C
Course Description:
Students should have a basic understanding of formal and philosophical logic ·Students should understand the notions of (deductive) validity, truth-functionality, and logical form ·Students should have an understanding of the logical constants ·Students should be able to formalize English sentences which yield to treatment in terms of propositional logic (roughly, the logic of 'and', 'not', 'or', and 'if... then...') ·Students should be able to construct truth-tables for complex propositional formulae and use these to test arguments for validity ·Students should be able to formalize a variety of English sentences into first-order predicate logic with identity (roughly, the logic of 'all', 'some', and 'is the same thing as') ·Students should be able to read and understand the logical notation introduced in the module ·Students should have some understanding of the philosophical issues raised by the application of formal logic to claims and arguments expressed in natural language ·Students should be able
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
PHIL 173
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/PHI00005C/latest
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