Instructor: Lindsay Rettler
Time and Location: Mon/Wed 6:30-9:00 pm; Moore Hall 1115
Contact: lindsayrettler[at]gmail.com
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 5:30-6:30 pm, and by appointment; Moore Hall 3035

IMPORTANT DATES:
Homework #1: due Wed 7/8
Homework #2: due Wed 7/8
Homework #3: due Wed 7/15
Test #1: Mon 7/20
Homework #4: due Mon 7/27
Test #2: Wed 7/29
Fallacy Presentations: assigned Mon 8/3
Homework #5: due Mon 8/5
Homework #6: due Mon 8/10
Test #3: Wed 8/12


COURSE SCHEDULE:
Please complete the readings and assignments before class on the days for which they are listed. All page numbers are from How to Think Logically 2nd edition, 2011. Homework assignments are listed at the end.

INTRODUCTION TO ARGUMENTS
M 6/29 Introduction 
W 7/1 No Class – University Holiday 
M 7/6 No Class – University Holiday

IDENTIFYING ARGUMENTS 
W 7/8 Logical Thinking, Argument Identification and Diagrams
  • Ch. 1, pp. 1-18 (1.1-1.4); and pp. 25-27; Ch. 2 pp. 40-44 (2.3-2.4); and Ch. 4 pp. 93-107 (4.1-4.5). 
  • Homework #1 and Homework #2 DUE

DEDUCTIVE REASONING AND FORMAL FALLACIES
M 7/13 Deduction and Formal Fallacies 
  • Ch. 5, pp. 123-141 (5.1); pp. 147-150 (5.2); and p. 160; Ch. 12, pp. 392-398 (12.3).
W 7/15 No new reading 
  • Homework #3 DUE

M 7/20 TEST #1 

CATEGORICAL STATEMENTS AND SYLLOGISMS
W 7/22 Categorical Statements 
  • Ch. 13, pp. 420-428 (13.1)
M 7/27 Categorical Syllogisms 
  • Ch. 14, pp. 471-478 (14.1); pp. 503-512 (14.4-14.5); and pp. 524-525 
  • Homework #4 DUE

W 7/29 TEST #2 

INDUCTIVE REASONING AND INFORMAL FALLACIES
M 8/3 Induction 
  • Ch. 6, pp. 162-177 (6.1-6.2); pp. 181-184 (6.3); pp. 189-192 (6.4); and pp. 194-195. 
  • Fallacy Presentations Assigned
W 8/5 Informal Fallacies 
  • Ch, 7, pp. 199-216 (7.1-7.3); Ch. 9, pp. 269-271 (9.3); Ch. 8, pp. 226-236 (8.1- 8.2); Ch. 8, pp. 242-248 (8.4-8.6); Ch. 9, pp. 271-279 (9.3-9.5); pp. 299-314 (10.1-10.7), and pp. 319-320 (10.8). 
  • Homework #5 DUE 
  • Fallacy Presentations

M 8/10
  • Homework #6 DUE 
  • Fallacy Presentations

W 8/12 TEST #3


HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:
HW #1 (due W 7/8) 
Ch. 1, pp. 19-22: 
  • Part IV #2-10, 19-22  
  • Part VI #2-10


HW #2 (due W 7/8) 
Ch. 4, pp. 99-109: 
  • Part II #10-20 
  • Part III #2-10
  • Part VI #12-20 
Ch. 5, pp. 129-130: 
  • Part II #2-8

HW #3 (due W 7/15) 
Ch. 5 pp. 143-145: 
  • Part VIII #15-20 
  • Part XI #2-7
Ch. 12 p. 401: 
  • Part X #2-7

HW #4 (due M 7/27) 
Ch. 13 pp. 428-430: 
  • Part II #6-10 
  • Part IV #2-8
Ch. 14 pp. 513-516: 
  • Part X #2-10 
  • Part XI #2-10

HW #5 (due W 8/5) 
Ch. 6 pp. 178-180: 
  • Part II #2-15 
  • Part IV #2-10

HW #6 (due M 8/10) 
Ch. 7 p. 217: 
  • Part II #3, 4, 13, 17, 32 
Ch. 8 pp. 238, 249, 250: 
  • Part III #4, 11, 14
  • Part IV #3, 5, 9 
  • Part X # 6, 7, 12, 25 
Ch. 9 p. 281: 
  • Part V #3, 8, 11, 21, 26 
Ch. 10 p. 314: 
  • Part II #2, 7, 8, 13, 20, 31