Course Title: Logical Thought |
Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025 |
Term: Fall Semester 2025 |
Description: This course cultivates sound reasoning. Students will learn to see the structure of claims and arguments and to use those structures in developing strong arguments and exposing shoddy ones. We will learn to evaluate arguments on the strength of the reasoning rather than on the force of their associations and buzzwords. |
Distribution(s): I - Humanities |
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     | Credits:4.00     |
Faculty         | Phone         | Email address         |
Nina Emery   |           | emery@mtholyoke.edu   |
Meeting Dates         | Method         | Meeting days         | Meeting times         | Building name         | Room     | Frequency     |
09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025   | Lecture   | Tuesday and Thursday   | 10:30AM - 11:45AM   | TBA   | TBA   | Weekly |
Requisite Courses         | ||
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Course Tags         | ||
PHIL0004   | PHIL-LG: Logic   | This course has been approved to count towards the Philosophy major in the Logic area.   |
Cross-listed Sections         |
None   |
Course Availability | ||||
Section status: Open     | Capacity: 38     | Enrollment: 35     | Available: 3     | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
Book List         | Required         | Publisher Full Price         |
To be determined. |           |           |
Additional Book Comments         |
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.   |