Course Details

PHIL 101 - Critical Thinking

This course provides students with the skills that are needed to recognize, analyze, evaluate and construct good arguments by studying the structures and conditions that make up arguments, both good and bad. The course will also examine the strategies and techniques used in the reasoning process while paying close attention to certain elements of language such as how analogies and statistics are used in arguments. This is a course in applied logic, rather than formal logic; thus moral reasoning, scientific reasoning, legal reasoning, and other modes of reasoning will be used as examples to illustrate the use and misuse of reason.