These problems will be approached from such modern views as survival of the fittest, free enterprise and the communal good, as well as the historical perspectives of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill and Nietzsche. Dr. Matti Eklund Logic is the study of arguments. We will introduce important concepts of logic, such as truth, validity and soundness. We will also go through elementary formal languages, introducing techniques for determining the validity of arguments, such as various proof systems. Toward the end of the course, we will introduce basic metalogical issues, such as soundess, completeness and decidability.
Logic is essential to understanding texts in modern analytic philosophy.
This semester the course is taught online. In this course, we will discuss these and other issues with an emphasis of the discussion of science and scientific and scientific method in modern analytic philosophy. For thousands of years, sages in Eastern cultures have addressed these questions from the point of view of logic, psychology and mystical intuition. This course will examine their arguments with an emphasis on the works of Indian, Chinese and Tibetan thinkers. Every effort will be made to relate course materials to the interests of students.