Introduction to Logic
Introduction to Logic is a class about how to argue. It focuses on constructing arguments and analyzing arguments, as well as looking for common flaws in reasoning called fallacies.
Course curriculum
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Introduction to Logic
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Chapter 1.1 Introduction to logic
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Chapter 1.2 Induction and background theories
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Chapter 1.3 Where reasoning goes wrong
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Chapter 1.4 Karl Popper and the logic of falsification
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Chapter 2.1 Thomas Kuhn, normal science
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Chapter 2.2 Thomas Kuhn, scientific revolutions
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Chapter 2.3 Thomas Kuhn, incommensurability and progress
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Chapter 2.4 Michel Foucault, epistemes
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Chapter 2.5 Michel Foucault, power
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Chapter 3.1 Carl Hempel, laws in history
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Chapter 3.2 The Age of Reason and the Age of History
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Chapter 3.3 Hegel, the logic of History
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Chapter 3.4 Karl Marx, the end of history
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Chapter 3.6 Hayden White, the story of history
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Chapter 4.1 The hermeneutic circle
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Chapter 4.2 Wilhelm Dilthey, the importance of hermeneutics
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Chapter 4.3 Structuralism, structure and identity
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Chapter 4.4 Structuralism, language and world
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Chapter 4.5 Vladimir Propp, the structure of fairy tales
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Chapter 5.2 Friedrich Nietzsche, the attack on truth
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Chapter 5.3 Richard Rorty, language as a tool
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