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LOGIC AND THEORY OF REASONING
LOGICA E TEORIA DELL'ARGOMENTAZIONE

A.Y. Credits
2022/2023 12
Lecturer Email Office hours for students
Vincenzo Fano
Teaching in foreign languages
Course with optional materials in a foreign language English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language.

Assigned to the Degree Course

Humanities. Literature, Arts and Philosophy (L-10)
Curriculum: FILOSOFICO
Date Time Classroom / Location
Date Time Classroom / Location

Learning Objectives

The course aims to provide the first rudiments of logic and philosophy of science. It is expected that in the end the student is able to formalize the simplest forms of declarative language and are able to evaluate simple scientific inferences .

Program

1. What is logic

2. propositional calculus and truth tables

3. Natural Deduction

4. predicate calculus

5. metalogic Background.

6. Cognitive Illusions

7. Probability.

8. Scientific Reasoning

9. Scientific Explanation

10 scientific realism

Bridging Courses

none

Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)

Knowledge and understanding. Students are expected to know the fundamentals of logic and understand an elementary text of logic.

Applied knowledge and understanding. Students are expected to be able to recognize a fallacy and to formalize simple reasoning.

Autonomy of judgment. Students are expected to be able to distinguish vague and argumentatively incorrect speech from properly constructed speech.

Communication skills. Students are expected to be able to formulate correct arguments on the issues they deal with.

Ability to learn. Students are expected to be able to master more advanced logic manuals on their own.

Teaching Material

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Supporting Activities

Integrative seminars will be proposed


Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment

Teaching

Lectures, student seminars, seminar of PhD students.

Innovative teaching methods

Debates and flipped learning

Attendance

To take the exam as attending students it is advisable to attend at least two thirds of the lessons

Course books

Copi Cohen, Introduction to logic, Routledge

Assessment

The assessment will be oral, with a minimum of 4 questions. ISimple exercises will be proposed  during and before the interview. The same for non attending students. ach question holds 8 points. To have 30L it is necessary to reach 31. 

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Additional Information for Non-Attending Students

Teaching

Materials in the blended learning course, skype talks, reception.

Attendance

none

Course books

Copi Cohen, Introduction to logic, Routledge

Assessment

The assessment will be oral, with a minimum of 4 questions. ISimple exercises will be proposed  during and before the interview.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

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