PHIL 105.002 – How to Reason and Argue: An Introduction to Critical Thinking

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Instructor: Ben Schwartz. This course meets TR 5:00 – 6:15 p.m. in AR 218.

This is a course about how to think critically and reason well. In particular, we will study how to analyze and evaluate the various arguments we encounter in our lives. Topics include argument reconstruction, common argumentative mistakes (“fallacies”), inductive logic, and introductory formal logic.