Introduction to Logic, Philosophy 110, Spring, 2003
 
Dr. Benjamin F. Armstrong, Jr.Office: PH 431Office Phone: (215) 641-6368 [please do not call me and leave a message asking me to call you back-- I have 140 students this semester, and exchanging phone machine messages is an inefficient way to use our time] E-mail: BARMSTRO@MC3.EDU
Text: A Concise Introduction to Logicby patrick J. Hurley, 8th Edition.

 

This course is being offered as a regular TTH course.The course may be done as a self-paced course.That is, you may work through the required material on your own, either ahead of the class or behind the class, or some of each, taking the appropriate tests when you are ready.But, I will not be a tutor to those of you who do not come to class regularly.That is to say, if you are not attending the classroom sessions, I will not provide lectures, or sessions in which I do for you individually what I have done in class,If you elect to do it as a self-paced course, you are largely on your own.

Those of you who elect to work at your own pace are welcome to come to classes if you like. There is no attendence reqirement.

Grades will be calculated according to the following:

Tests  80%

Final   20%

Assignments:







Read over 1.1,1.4.


 

(The test schedule is subject to modification as we move through the course.  Those of you who are working self-paced are responsible for checking this site for any revisions in the schedule.)
 

4.1, 4.2, 4.3,   TEST #1 ;4.4,  4.5  (just the material on the Traditional Square of Opposition),4.6,  4.7,TEST #2;   5.1(ignore any discussion of 'figure' and 'mood'),  5.2, TEST #3;

5.3, 5.4, 5.5, TEST #4;(?5.6,5.7?);6.1, 6.2, 6.3TEST #5;

6.4, 6.5, 6.6TEST#6; 7.1, TEST#7;7.2,TEST#8;7.3,TEST#9; 7.4, TEST# 10

(?8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4?)

3.1-3.5TEST # 11

FINAL EXAM