PHIL 102: Logic and Reasoning – Second 8-Week Course

The Department of Philosophy has a new eight week course offering going live for THIS semester.

PHIL 102Gilbert (please feel free to email instructor with any questions, daveg@illinois.edu)

CRN: 65983

T/Th 10:00 AM beginning October 20th

 

Philosophy 102 is an introduction to reasoning. This is a course in informal logic, stressing practical problems and methods. The course is intended to help the student learn to follow and analyze other people’s arguments (e.g., in editorials, textbooks, and legal cases). It will also improve the student’s ability to develop, present, and defend his or her own arguments. The student will be introduced to some of the basic laws of reasoning, and also to some of the most common fallacies which occur in reasoning.

 

 

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for Fall 2015 for a UIUC: History & Philosophy Perspectives course.