Critical Reasoning

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Course outline

1. Arguments, Validity, and Soundness

2. Logical Fallacies

3. Truth Tables, Classification of Statements, Relationships between Statements, Argument Validity

4. Formal Proofs, Basic Rules of Inference, Hypothetical Rules, Derived Rules of Inference

5. Inductive Arguments, Two Problems of Inductive Logic, Hume's Problem of Induction, the New Riddle of Induction

Lecture Videos and Assignments

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Final Projects

Students are asked to complete a final project for this course, which consists of reading one of the three texts -- "Epilogue II" of Tolstoy's War and Peace, "The Grand Inquisitor" from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and Plato's Meno -- and answer the following accompanied questions.