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PHIL 101 - Critical Thinking

This course provides students with the skills that are needed to recognize, analyze, evaluate, and construct good arguments by understanding the structures and components underlying arguments, reasoning and claims. The course will also examine the strategies and techniques used in the reasoning process, both sound and fallacious, while paying close attention to how these manifest in our everyday life. Although this course will touch upon the foundation of formal logic, moral reasoning, scientific reasoning, legal reasoning, and other modes of reasoning will be used as examples to illustrate the successful and erroneous use of reasoning.
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