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Logic - PHIL2001
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Philosophy
 
 
Contact: Michael,Michaelis Stephanou
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit; Excluded: MATH3400, PHIL2106
 
 
Session Offered: See Class Timetable
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 

Description

This course is about deductive logic (in particular, propositional logic and predicate logic). Aims to construct - and to understand - a precise, unambiguous, formal language. Many important parts of English are translatable into it, hence many arguments of English are translated into it too. It is a language with which we can better understand the concept of deductive proof.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course you should be able to:
  • Develop your ability to analyse arguments
  • Understand the notion of a formal system
  • Translate from English into a formal language
  • Use formal translations to test for formal validity
  • Understand the difference between provability and validity
  • Understand the distinction between terms and predicates
  • Debate the strengths and weaknesses of various formal systems
  • Use truth tables to define connectives you can then investigate
  • Understand the role of logic as a crucial part of a philosophical education.

Assessment

  • Short assessment - (15%)
  • Open book class test - (35%)
  • Open book exam - (50%)

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