Identify the logical purpose of everyday and scientific reasoning.

Critical Thinking (PHI180)

Students will learn to recognize logical arguments in ordinary language contexts, to analyze those arguments into their constituent parts, and to test arguments for logical validity and soundness. Students will learn to recognize various sorts of fallacies and learn to distinguish different types of inference. Students will also learn how to draw argument diagrams, identify inference indicators and to construct logically valid arguments.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students will be able to :

1. Identify the logical purpose of everyday and scientific reasoning.
2. Analyse pieces of reasoning in their different components and relationships.
3. Identify the structure of reasoning in logical and diagrammatic form.
4. Evaluate different argument types and pieces of reasoning.