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: