Fall 2021 ,

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LOGIC

This course introduces logic as a liberal art, i.e., an art of things which are made in being known and known in being made. Logic directs the fundamental acts of the human intellect—simple apprehension, composition and division, inference—in realizing what they make and know, the forms of discursive understanding: definition, judgment, and argument.

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Steven Cortright

THIS COURSE HAS CONCLUDED. THE FOLLOWING LESSONS ARE PRE-RECORDED VIDEOS FROM EARLY FALL OF 2021.

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AMI Intro Logic WK 1 Readings

The course will rely on the following authors and touch on the following texts:

Aristotle, On Interpretation (selections), Categories (selections), Prior Analytics (selections)
Jacques Maritain, Formal Logic (selections)
P. T. Geach, Reason and Argument (selections)
Lewis Carroll, The Game of Logic (selections)

Course Content

Week One

Logic as a Liberal Art, Some Aristotelian and Thomistic Starting Points, Introduction to the Doctrine of Signs

Week Two

Simple Apprehension I: Preliminaries to Definition

Week Three

Simple Apprehension II: Definition

Week Four

Composition and Division I: The Proposition and Its Properties

Week Five

Composition and Division II: Opposition, Conversion, Obversion

Week Six

Reasoning I: Syllogism

Week Seven

Reasoning II: Reduction, Enthymeme, Sorites

Week Eight

Logic and Logistic: Inference in Lewis Carroll’s Game of Logic

About Instructor

Steven Cortright

Steven A. Cortright is a Professor in the Philosophy Department and Integral Program at St. Mary’s College of California where he has been teaching since 1977. A graduate of St. Mary’s College himself and the University of Notre Dame, Professor Cortright is the founding president of the Albertus Magnus Institute.

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