Logic and Critical Thinking: A Text for Community College Students

by Rod Jenks

Overview

This work is an introduction to logic, covering what is most commonly taught in the first term of a two-term sequence in logic at four-year colleges and universities. It is designed for use by community college students who plan to transfer credits to four-year institutions. The material covered seeks to maintain logic's place in philosophical thought systems, and avoids political examples in order to appeal to reason and study rather than ill-conceived jokes that often offend students' varying policitcal beliefs. This work concludes with studies in proof constructions and rules and provides explanations of various grading decisions commonly made in logic courses, a unique feature helpful to students and teachers alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761835677
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	09/27/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.56(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Rod Jenks is an Instructor in Philosophy and Religion at Chemeketa Community College and at the University of Portland. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California at San Diego. He has published several works on ancient Greek philosophy and epistemology with a special focus on the philosophy of Socrates.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 I. Introductory Considerations
Chapter 2 II. Explanations and Arguments
Chapter 3 III. Induction and Deduction
Chapter 4 IV. Enthymemes
Chapter 5 V. Informal Fallacies
Chapter 6 VI. Analysis
Chapter 7 VII. Class Logic
Chapter 8 VIII. Boolean Algebra
Chapter 9 IX. Venn Diagrams
Chapter 10 X. The Formal System
Chapter 11 XI. Truth Tables
Chapter 12 XII. Rules Proofs
Chapter 13 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 14 Solutions to Selected Exercises