In this class, we will study the nature of arguments and reasoning in an attempt to provide students with tools that will help them to think critically and carefully. In this class, students will be required to read arguments and analyses of arguments, They will also be required to evaluate and construct arguments on various topics in homework, essays, and examinations. Topics include what sentences and arguments represent in reasoning, analysis of parts if reasoning, and the symbolization of propositions and arguments. This class considers the ethical and moral questions arising from contemporary medical knowledge and practice. The contemporary debate about the nature of time centers on the ontological status of the past and future.
Some philosophers hold only the present exists.
We shall study the most recent writings on this debate by over a dozen philosophers. The class will use The New Theory of Time .