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Agenda 3/31

  1. Thoughts from Last Session
  2. Assignment Construction Assignment
  3. Wrap-up
    • Strawman Fallacy
    • General Discussion of Fallacies: Bad Arguments
    • Value of Critical Thinking (Informal Logic)
    • Improving Critical Thinking
  4. Break
  5. Beyond QL
    • Identity
    • Numerical quantification
    • Definite Descriptions
    • Possessives (functions)

Assignments

  1. Due: Project Proposal: Due 4/13 (Monday) before class.

Current Schedule

  • 4/7 - Metaphysics and Logic: Higher-order logic, Leibniz's laws, Lambda abstraction, definitely operator, Evans on vague objects
  • 4/14 - Modal Propositional Logic, Part 1
  • 4/21 - Modal Propositional Logic, Part 2 or More Informal Logic.
  • 4/28 - Presentations
  • 5/3 - Final Project Due