Section Info: PHIL-170-01

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

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
None                    

Comments        
Additional Comments        
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.