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PHIL2303 Introduction to Logic Syllabus Dallas College Instructor Information Name: Jerrod Scott DCCCD Email: jscott@dcccd.edu Office Phone: 972-860-4826 Office Location: K205: Brookhaven Campus Office Hours: NA Division Office and Phone: K240; 972-860-4130 Course Information Course Title: Introduction to Logic Course Number: PHIL2303 Section Number: 43640 Semester/Year: Summer I 2023 Credit Hours: 3 Class Meeting Time/Location: Online, from June 5 to July 6, 2023 Certification Date: 6/8/2023 Last Day to Withdraw: 6/28/2023 Course Prerequisites Required : College level ready in Reading. Course Description The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to formal and informal logic, including syllogisms, prepositional and predicate logic, logical proofs in a system of rules, fallacies, definitions, analogies, and use of language. Student Learning Outcomes Upon completion of PHIL2303, students should be able to demonstrate competence in Logic by: 1

1. Determine the logical structure of English arguments by identifying premises and conclusions. 2. Understand basic concepts in logic, such as truth functionality, validity, soundness, counter-examples, tautology, self-contradiction, logical equivalence, logical contradictoriness, and logical consistence. 3. Translate English statements into propositional and/or predicate notation. 4. Determine the validity of symbolic propositional or predicate arguments using such methods as direct/indirect truth tables, natural deduction, and/or the finite universe method. Texas Core Objectives The College defines essential knowledge and skills that students need to develop during their college experience. These general education competencies parallel the Texas Core Objectives for Student Learning. In this course, the activities you engage in will give you the opportunity to practice two or more of the following core competencies: 1. Critical Thinking Skills - to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information 2. Communication Skills - to include effective development, interpretation, and expression of ideas through written, oral, and visual communication 3. Empirical and Quantitative Skills - to include the manipulation and analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions 4. Teamwork - to include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal 5. Personal Responsibility - to include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making 6. Social Responsibility - to include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities Required Course Materials All materials necessary for this course will be provided online. Log on to ecampus, and enter our PHIL2303 course. Click the “MindTap” tab on the left. This takes you to the publisher’s site and you will have to create an account (or log in if you happen to have one already). You will NOT have to pay for this. 2

This will give you access to the text online, and access to all the exams and exercises. Once registered at the publisher’s site ( www.cengage.com) , you could access the course by going directly there. That is, no exams or materials will be on ecampus. I will be transferring your grades from the “MindTap” page into ecampus, all your graded material and the textbook are in “MindTap.” The etext is “A Concise Introduction to Logic” by Hurley/Watson, 13 th edition. ISBN- 978-1-305-95964-4 If your Dallas College course requires learning materials they will be provided as part of the IncludED program (see www.dcccd.edu/included ) or as free materials, you can access in your online course shell. If you opt-out of the IncludED program, you are responsible for obtaining all your required learning materials by the first day of the class. (For more details, see Institutional Policies .) Graded Work The tables below provide a summary of the graded work in this course and an explanation of how your final course grade will be calculated. Summary of Graded Work Assignments Points Totals Chapter One Exam 50 points 50 points Chapter Three Exam 40 points 90 points Chapter Four Exam 50 points 140 points Chapter Five Exam 40 points 180 points Chapter Six Exam 53 points 233 points Chapter Seven Exam 28 points 261 points TOTAL: 242 points Final Grade Points Percentages Letter Grade 234-261 89.7-100% A 208-233 79.7-89.3% B 182-207 69.7-79.3% C 3

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Points Percentages Letter Grade 156-181 59.8-69.3% D 0-155 0-59.4% F Description of Graded Work To be successful in this class, you must do the homework and log into class each day. I believe that the best way to learn logic is by doing the exercises. You should read a section of the text, then do the exercises for that section. At the end of each chapter is a chapter test that covers the material in that chapter. Your grade will be the total of the 6 chapter exams. I will give bonus points for completing certain practice exercises. Each chapter has at least one homework assignment that is graded. I will give bonus points to each chapter exam based on a percentage of your score for the graded practice exercises from that chapter that you have completed, one point per 10% of the score. For example, in chapter one, section 1.4 has homework assignments that are graded. If your score is 80% of the total possible (for ALL the graded exercises in 1.4), then I will give you an 8 point bonus to your chapter one exam. If your score is 21% of the total for those exercises, then I will add 2 bonus points to your chapter one exam. So, the maximum amount of bonus points for EACH graded homework assignment is 10 (for scoring 95% or higher of the graded homework exercises in that section). You could get up to 70 bonus points in total for the semester . Attendance and Your Final Grade Attendance is not part of your grade. Late Work Policy There are deadlines to each homework, and each chapter test. The chapter tests MUST BE TAKEN on or before its assigned deadline. I will not accept a test or graded homework assignment that is taken past the deadline. After the deadline for each chapter exam, I will manually add the bonus points that you earned for that chapter. After the bonus points are added to the chapter exam, I will transfer the score into ecampus. Institutional Policies Institutional Policies relating to this course can be accessed using the link below. These policies include information about tutoring, Disabilities Services, class drop and repeat options, Title IX, and more. 4

Brookhaven Institutional Policies (http://www.brookhavencollege.edu/syllabipolicies) Course Schedule Below are the deadlines for each set of bonus exercises and each chapter test. Each assignment, and deadline, is also listed in your MindTap course online. Please keep up with the assignments. If you want to move through the material faster than assigned, you may. Everything is open from the beginning of the course. But if you go by the deadlines, you will move through the material at a steady pace. Since the material is available 24/7, I will not give make-up exams. If you know you are planning a trip, work ahead in the material. Poor planning on your part does not mean an emergency on my part. Again, the deadlines are firm. You will receive NO credit for graded practice exercises or tests that are past the deadline. The deadline for all tests and graded exercises is 11pm Central Standard Time on the date listed below. All graded exercises will be followed by an *. So for example, the first graded practice exercises (bonus grade) is section 1.4. This assignment must be finished by 11pm CST on 6/7 to receive credit. The first test, over Chapter One, is due before 11pm CST on 6/8. All section numbers refer to our text , A Concise Introduction to Logic . Schedule of Readings and Due Dates Due Date Topic Readings & Assignments 6/6 Basic Concepts Sections 1.1 and 1.2 6/7 Sections 1.3 and 1.4* 6/8 Section 1.5 and Chapter One Test* 6/9 Fallacies Sections 3.1 and 3.2 6/10 Section 3.3 6/11 Section 3.4* 6/12 Section 3.5 and Chapter Three Test* 6/13 Categorical Propositions Sections 4.1 and 4.2 6/14 Sections 4.3 and 4.4 6/15 Section 4.5* 6/16 Sections 4.6 and 4.7 6/17 Chapter Four Test* 5

Due Date Topic Readings & Assignments 6/18 Categorical Syllogisms Section 5.1* 6/19 Sections 5.2 and 5.3 6/20 Sections 5.4 and 5.5 6/21 Sections 5.6 and 5.7 6/22 Chapter Five Test* 6/23 Propositional Logic Sections 6.1 and 6.2 6/24 Section 6.3 6/25 Section 6.4* 6/26 Section 6.5 and 6.6 6/27 Chapter Six Test* 6/29 Natural Deduction Section 7.1 and 7.2* 6/30 Section 7.3 7/2 Section 7.4* 7/4 Sections 7.5 7/5 Sections 7.6 and 7.7 7/6 Chapter Seven Test* 6

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