Philosophy and Logic: Reasoning About Reality, Knowledge, and Value

A one-semester introduction to philosophy organized around a single skill that carries across every unit: reconstructing an argument in its strongest form before evaluating it. Students learn formal and informal logic (validity, soundness, common fallacies) as tools, then apply those tools to four enduring philosophical problems: what makes an argument good; how we know what we claim to know; whether the mind is anything more than the body; and what makes an action right. Religious and secular positions on these questions are treated as philosophy, presented in their strongest form, with their strongest objections, without the course adjudicating a winner. Students write argumentative philosophy papers, reconstruct arguments in standard form, and defend positions orally against prepared objections.

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