This course develops students' critical thinking and argumentative skills through the study of philosophical problems and methods. Students will learn to construct and evaluate arguments, analyze logical structures, and apply these skills to philosophical questions about knowledge, reality, and ethics. Students will learn about Western philosophy and Indigenous ways of knowing. The course encourages students to think and communicate successfully across academic disciplines.
Prerequisites
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What you will learn
- Foundations of Logic and Critical Thinking
- Propositions and truth-values
- Premises and conclusions
- Truth tables and logical connectors
- Argument forms and validity
- Natural language translation into propositional logic
- Indigenous philosophies and logic - Argument Analysis and Evaluation
- Standardizing arguments
- Identifying implicit premises
- Evaluating premise acceptability
- Common fallacies
- Different ways of knowing - Advanced Logic and Applications
- Truth table proofs
- Contraries and contradictories
- Complex argument forms
- Applied logic in different disciplines - Philosophical Applications
- Epistemology and theories of knowledge
- Ethical reasoning
- Scientific method and causation
- Indigenous knowledge systems
- Contemporary applications
How to register
This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.
Course schedules
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Contact us
If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.
† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.