Overview
Lecturer
Pax Dorin Wainberg-Drăghiciu
Seminar tutor
Pax Dorin Wainberg-Drăghiciu
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
English
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Administrative Sciences
Field of study
Public Administration
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Aims
This course is designed to introduce students to various topics in formal logic and uncertainty that they will encounter in low theory.
The concepts are illustrated with actual examples from the specialized literature. Exercises are designed to encourage the student to begin thinking about formal logic within a theoretical context.
Formative purpose of the course is to establish methods and techniques that allow us to distinguish Supply you with the tools you need to distinguish good deductive thinking from bad deductive thinking.
Course contents
1 The language of propositional logic
2. The syntax and composition rules
3. Functions of truth and truth tables
4. Tautologies, contradictions and contingency
5. Consistency and inconsistency
6. Logic equivalence
7. The validity of arguments
8. Natural inference
9. Valid argumentative forms (inference rules)
10. Argumentative conditional forms
11. Principles and rules of derivation
12. Conditional proof
13. The proof of tautologies
14. Consistency and inconsistency of the premises.
Learning outcomes
Modelling and solving some medium complexity level problems, using the formal logic knoweledges applied in law and administrative sciences.
Assessment
Written paper 50%; mid-term test 30%; seminar activities 20%.
Recommended reading
• Barker-Plummer, Dave, Language, Proof, and Logic, 2nd edition, Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy, CSLI/Chicago (2011)
• Teller, Paul, A Modern Formal Logic Primer, which is freely available online: http://tellerprimer.ucdavis.edu/
• Pasigui, Ronnie E., Sumabat, Ruel P., Integrated Logic, CIO Printing Press (1996)
• Salmon, Merrilee H. Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking, University of Pittsburgh Press. (2007).
• Soccio, Douglas J., Practical Logic: An Antidote for Uncritical Thinking, (2008).