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Introductory Logic: Course Overview Instructor

This 3-credit course introduces students to introductory logic. It will be taught on Mondays from 5:30-8:00pm in room 2LCA. Students will learn principles of inference that can be useful in careful thinking and argument evaluation. Evaluations will include quizzes, problem sets, a midterm, and final exam. A success TA will also organize group study sessions to help students with the material and assignments. The required text is The Logic Book and the course will cover sentential and predicate logic through translations and derivations.

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Introductory Logic: Course Overview Instructor

This 3-credit course introduces students to introductory logic. It will be taught on Mondays from 5:30-8:00pm in room 2LCA. Students will learn principles of inference that can be useful in careful thinking and argument evaluation. Evaluations will include quizzes, problem sets, a midterm, and final exam. A success TA will also organize group study sessions to help students with the material and assignments. The required text is The Logic Book and the course will cover sentential and predicate logic through translations and derivations.

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Introductory Logic

PHIL 102 (3 credit hours - Natural World - No Lab course. Fulfills Universitys Quantitative Reasoning requirement.)

Instructor
Reza Hadisi

M eetings

Mondays 5:30-8:00pm,
2LCA

Course Overview
Information is all around you. It is stored in books, on computers, in the rings of a tree, in
your brain. Logic is the study of the most basic property of information: that you can put
two pieces of information together to make a new piece of information. This process is
called inference and it is at the very heart of what it means to be a thinker. In logic, we
study inference by trying to give precise rules for what makes a good inference. Our goal is
to uncover and understand the hidden structure of information. In addition to the basic
interest that this project has, it also has important practical benefits. In this course you will

Email
[email protected]

Office Location
University Hall, 1410

learn principles of inference that will be useful to you in any activity that requires careful
thought. You will improve your ability to make and evaluate arguments, and you will gain
a greater appreciation for precision in language.

Required Texts
The Logic Book (Fifth Edition). Marie Bergman, James Moor and Jack Nelson. McGraw

Office Hours
Tuesdays 10am 12am
or by appointment.

Hill. 2009. It is your responsibility to have access to this book - some of the problem sets
will contain exercises from the book. Note that this is not the most recent edition of the
book. Ive chosen to use an older edition because it is substantially cheaper.
Evaluations

Course Web Page

!- 5 in-class surprise quizzes: 10%!

The course web site will

- Participation in discussion sections: 10%

be handled through the

- 6 problem sets: 30%

UIC blackboard system.

- !Midterm Exam: 25 %! (Last week of February)


- Final Exam: 25% (Exams Week)

Disclaimer
The terms of this syllabus
are subject to change by
announcements in class,
on the course website
(blackboard) and by
email.

- Extra-Credit: Students can earn up to 5% extra credit for attending and participating
in study groups (See Success TA below). To earn the full 5% you must attend and
participate in at least one study session (almost) every week. In addition, students who
attend and participate in at least 5 study group sessions can drop their worst problem set
grade.
Success TA and Group-study sessions
This year, the philosophy department is offering a success TA for Introductory logic,
Deborah Haar ([email protected]). The success TA will organize and run group-study

Prerequisite(s): None.

sessions where students from all sections of Introductory Logic and work together on
practice problems (with help from Deborah) and problem sets (with help from each other).
In addition, the success TA will monitor the progress of students in all sections of 102 and
make a special effort to reach out to students who are in danger of failing the course.

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Course Schedule
Date

Subject

Reading

Jan
12

What is Logic? What is a good argument?

LB 1-27!

Jan
19

MLK DAY No Class

LB 1-27 (re-read!)

Jan
26

Sentential Logic (Introduction)

LB 28-48

Feb 2

Sentential Logic (Translation)

LB 50-72

Feb 9

Sentential Logic (Semantics)

LB 75-92

Feb
16

Sentential Logic (Semantics cont.)

LB 92-113

Feb
23

Sentential Logic: Relations

TBD

Mar 2

Sentential Logic (Truth Trees)

LB 115-156

Mar 9

Sentential Logic Derivations

LB 160-187

Mar
16

Sentential Logic Derivations

LB 189 222

Mar
30

Sentential Logic Derivations

LB 228 - 236

Apr 6

Introduction to Predicate Logic

LB 276-308

Apr
13

Predicate Logic

LB 309-321

Apr
20

Predicate Logic Translations

Apr
27

Predicate Logic Translation

Summing up the course discussions, going through the


final paper questions, and saying goodbye!

Problem Set Schedule (Provisional; you will be notified of any possible changes through BlackBoard and in class)
th

st

1 Problem Set (Jan 29 ), 2


5

th

nd

Problem set (April 9th), 6

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th

rd

Problem Set (Feb 13 ), 3

th

Problem Set (Feb 26 ), 4

th

th

Problem Set (March 12 )

Problem Set (April 30th)

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How to submit? You must submit a hard copy of your answer by brining it to my office (UH 1410). If I am not in the
office you can leave your answer sheet in my mailbox at the 14

th

floor of UH.

Late submission policy: No late submissions will be accepted.


Plagiarism: Here is how the English Department at UIC defines plagiarism:
A student who submits a paper which in whole or part has been written by someone else or which contains
passages quoted or paraphrased from anothers work without acknowledgment (quotation marks, citation, etc.) has
plagiarized. Maintain your integrity when completing assignments and be overzealous to give credit where it is due.
If you ever are unsure about what constitutes plagiarism, ask your instructor. Students who are found to have
plagiarized work may be subject to various disciplinary actions, including a failing grade on a particular assignment,
failure of the entire course, and possible expulsion from the university. In egregious cases, most instructors fail the
student on the spot and file a complaint with Student Judicial Affairs. For more information about violations of
academic integrity and their consequences, consult the web site of the UIC Office of Student Judicial Affairs. (From
https://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/phd/FYWP/PlagiarismPolicy.pdf ; extracted on 8/16/14)

Accessibility

Here is the official policy: Concerning disabled students, the University of Illinois at Chicago is committed to
maintaining a barrier-free environment so that individuals with disabilities can fully access programs, courses,
services, and activities at UIC. Students with disabilities who require accommodations for full access and
participation in UIC Programs must be registered with the Disability Resource Center (DRC). Please contact
DRC at (312) 413-2183 (voice) or (312) 413- 0123 (TDD).

Here is my policy: If you have a disability, please do get in touch with DRC so they can help us arrange things
(e.g. they can help us to get the material to you in the right format, etc.). But please dont be shy to approach me
about anything you need. Its my obligation to make the class accessible, and not a favor that I am doing for you.

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