PHIL 201

Critical Thinking

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

An analysis of simple argument forms in natural language with close attention to the different uses of language in an argumentative context. A treatment of elementary principles of inductive logic, decision making, syllogistic reasoning, and informal fallacies.

Note: Designed as a first course in logic for students with little or no symbolic orientation; it may be taken before or after 203.

Undergraduate course in Philosophy offered by the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities.