Moral reasoning is a capacity that requires development and frequent exercise-this is your forum, your exercise room, your opportunity to strengthen your moral reasoning. This course seeks to introduce the student to the philosophical aspects and implications of the major religious traditions of the world. In this course, we shall discuss various exciting topics such as evolution vs. Creationism, astrology, miracles, and genetic engineering. This course is an introduction to symbolic logic. It has no preprquisites.
Logic is a science of reasoning, including methods for distinguishing good reasoning from bad.
Symbolic logic involves the use of a system of special symbols for determining whether statements are consistent and whether a form of reasoning is a valid one and can be relied upon to reach true conclusions. Students learn to produce proofs, which develops general problem solving skills. By the end, students should have a better understanding of what reasoning is, the meaning of English sentences, why some arguments are valid and some are not, and how to test arguments for validity. In this class we will identify and analyze the form and structure of deductive arguments. Various proof techniques will be used to determine validity with emphasis on translating English sentences into symbolic form.