Introduction to Philosophy: Logic
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Ben Martin, University of Bergen
Christina Hendricks, University of British Columbia
Copyright Year: 2020
ISBN 13: 9781989014097
Publisher: Rebus Community
Language: English
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CC BY
Table of Contents
- 1. What is Logic?
- 2. Evaluating Arguments
- 3. Formal Logic in Philosophy
- 4. Informal Fallacies
- 5. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
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About the Book
Introduction to Philosophy: Logic provides students with the concepts and skills necessary to identify and evaluate arguments effectively. The chapters, all written by experts in the field, provide an overview of what arguments are, the different types of arguments one can expect to encounter in both philosophy and everyday life, and how to recognise common argumentative mistakes.
About the Contributors
Editors
Ben Martin (book editor) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Bergen, and the investigator for the European Research Council-funded project The Unknown Science: Understanding the Epistemology of Logic through Practice, having received his PhD from University College London. He works mainly in the philosophy of logic and epistemology, and has published articles about logical disagreements, the semantic paradoxes and dialetheism in journals including Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Synthese and Topoi, as well as collections such as the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Evidence.
Christina Hendricks (series editor) is a Professor of Teaching in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she often teaches Introduction to Philosophy courses. She is also the and also the Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (2018-2023). Christina has been an open education researcher and advocate for a number of years, having been a BCcampus Open Textbook Fellow, an OER Research Fellow with the Open Education Group, the Creative Commons Canada representative to the CC Global Network, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Legal Information Institute.