Logic B

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Course ID:	3501-WISIP-L1B
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0223) Philosophy and ethics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Logic B
Name in Polish:	Logic B
Organizational unit:	Institute of Philosophy
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	The class will be divided into two parts: I. Introduction to set theory. II. Informal methods of evaluating arguments. Fallacies.
Full description:	I. Introduction to set theory: 1. Basic concepts - set, membership relation, subset relation (inclusion), power set; 2. Algebra of sets - operations, laws, proofs; 3. Arbitrary unions and intersections; 4. Ordered pairs, Cartesian product; 5. Relations, functions, equivalence relations and ordering relations. II. Informal methods of evaluating arguments: sentences and propositions; speech acts and conversational acts; the basic structure of arguments; a general method of argument analysis; truth, validity and soundness; usefulness of arguments; discussion of real-life examples of reasoning. Inductive reasoning: induction, inductive generalizations; sources of bias (prejudice and stereotypes, slanted questions, informal judgmental heuristics); statistical syllogisms, reasoning about causes; necessary and sufficient conditions; problems in distinguishing sufficient conditions from necessary conditions; inferences to the best explanation, arguments from analogy. Fallacies: the notion of fallacy; fallacies of clarity (vagueness, sorites, conceptual slippery-slope arguments, fairness slippery-slope arguments, causal slippery-slope arguments, fallacies of ambiguity, the role of definitions); fallacies of relevance (arguments ad hominem, appeals to authority); fallacies of vacuity (circular reasoning, begging the question).
Bibliography:	Barbara Partee, Mathematical Methods in Ligustics Herbert B. Enderton, Elements of Set Theory. Fogelin, Robert; Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Understanding Arguments. An Introduction to Informal Logic, Harcourt Brace College Publishers 1997. Fisher, Alec, The Logic of Real Arguments, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1988. Supplementary Reading: Thomson, Anne: Critical Reasoning, Routledge. Walton, Douglas: Informal Logic, Cambridge University Press
Learning outcomes:	Knowledge: The student will be made familiar with the basic concepts of set theory and will be acquainted with the informal methods of evaluating arguments. (KW05, KW06, KW09, KW10, KW11) Skills: The student will learn to do proofs involving set-theoretic constructs and will be warned against possible reasoning fallacies and biases. (KU05, KU07, KU10, KU16) Social competence: Clarity of thought and inquisitiveness. (KK02)
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Class participation, two tests, and exam. Permissible number of absences: 2

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