Traditional formal logic together with discursive logic, fallacies, and argument construction. Fall and spring. Three 50-minute periods. Introduction to Philosophy. A general investigation of the tasks and subject matters of philosophy, including the major theories of reality, knowledge, religion, morality, and social justice which characterize the discipline.
Special attention is given to several classic philosophical texts as primary source readings.
Fall and spring. Three 50-minute periods. Baehr, Moeller 211. Contemporary view of logic. Study of deductive forms in the logic of propositions, predicate and modal logics.