UNSW Handbook Course - Logic

Logic - PHIL2001


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History and Philosophy
	Course Outline: http://philosophy.arts.unsw.edu.au/
	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
	Equivalent: PHIL2106
	Excluded: MATH3400
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

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, students should:

Have developed some ability to analyse arguments and reasoning from a logical point of view, using criteria and concepts from classical logic
Understand the role of logic as a crucial part of a philosophical education

Assessment

Three in-class tests - 100% (In-total)

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