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 Department:    PHIL&

 Course #:    106

 Credits:    5

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    5

 CIP:    380101

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2019

 Course Description  

Introduces the study of reasoning, including the ability to recognize, analyze, criticize and construct the main types of argument and proof.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: Appropriate placement or grade of 2.0 or higher in ENGL 099.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 55

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Academic Humanities  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. understand the dialectical character of genuinely fruitful argumentation
2. parse arguments into their components: claims, grounds, warrants, and backing
3. evaluate the strength of arguments in terms of qualifications, rebuttals and exceptions
4. recognize the need for and ways to acquire as much relevant information as possible before making any final argumentative assessments.
5. assess their own pre-critical orientation
6. recognize and address fallacies involving faulty grounds
7. recognize and address fallacies involving faulty warrants
8. translate natural language into standard form.
9. translate natural language into symbolic language
10. recognize and use logical inferences, such as modus ponens and modus tollens, logical fallacies, and recognize formal soundness and validity

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

1. Introduction to logic and the environment of argumentation
2. Claims and how to evaluate claims
3. Grounds, inductive and deductive modes of reasoning
4. Warrants and Rules
5. Backing and its relationship to warrants
6. Qualified claims, tentative discoveries, Rebuttals and Exceptions
7. Presumtions,quandries, relevance and context in argumentation
8. Fallacies involving faulty grounds
9. Fallacies involving faulty warrants
10. An introduction to formal logic: translations from natural language to standard form and standard form to symbolic form