PHIL 110 TENTATIVE SYLLABUS FOR THE REST OF THE TERM

 

WED. MARCH 14TH: FROM CH.7,  NON-RELATIONAL PREDICATE LOGIC TRANSLATIONS 

                                     4TH TAKE-HOME ASSIGNMENT DISTRIBUTED (WORTH 5% OF FINAL GRADE)

FRI.  MARCH 16TH:  FROM CH. 10, (SEC. 1-5, pp. 226-240), RELATIONAL PREDICATE LOGIC

      TRANSLATIONS

WED. MARCH 21ST: FINISH REL. PRED. LOG. TRANSLATIONS, BEGIN CH. 8, PRED. LOGIC. SEMANTICS

                                      4TH TAKE-HOME ASSIGNMENT DUE.

FRI. MARCH 23RD:  CONTINUE CH. 8

                                       TALK ABOUT 2ND IN-CLASS MIDTERM.

WED. MARCH 28TH: FINISH CH. 28;  MIDTERM REVIEW.

FRI.  MARCH 30TH:  2ND IN-CLASS MIDTERM, WORTH 25% OF FINAL GRADE.

WED. APRIL 4TH:  CH 13 (secs. 1-3, pp. 286-297, leaving out the proofs) USING NUMERICAL IDENTITY IN

   TRANSLATIONS;  PROPERTIES OF RELATIONS.

FRI. APRIL 6TH:  GOOD FRIDAY; UNIVERSITY CLOSED

WED. APRIL  11TH: FINAL EXAM BREAKDOWN AND REVIEW.  LAST DAY OF CLASSES.

 

FRIDAY APRIL 20TH  8:30 AM – 11:30 AM  SWH 10081:  FINAL EXAMINATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COURSE SYLLABUS PHILOSOPHY 110

SPRING 2012

INSTRUCTOR: PHIL HANSON

Course Homepage: www.sfu.ca/~hanson  and follow the links.

Required Text: Logic and Philosophy, 11th edition, Alan Hausman, Howard Kahane, and Paul Tidman

To be covered: Chs. 1-5, 7, 8, and parts of 10 and 13.  To give a rough idea of our pace, we will have covered the first 3 chapters before Reading Week,  February 13-17.  The 4-5 weeks immediately following Reading Week should suffice for chs. 4,5, and 7.

There will be an in-class midterm exam covering Chs. 1-3 on Wednesday February 29th, worth 15% of your course grade.  On Friday March 30th there will be a second in-class midterm, this time worth 25% of your course grade, also covering material in Chs. 4, 5, and 7.  There will be a final exam, worth 40% of your course grade, on all of the material covered in the course, on Friday, April 20th, 8:30-11:30 AM (room to be determined).  The remainder of your course grade will consist of 4 take-home assignments, worth 5% each.  Those assignments will be distributed in class (as well as made available on the course web site).  They are to be submitted in the lecture class one week after distribution, with penalties for late submission.  Graded assignments will be returned and gone over in your tutorials.  Tentative dates for the distribution of the take-home assignments  are:  Friday Jan. 20th (formal representation of truth-functional structure of English); Friday Feb 3rd  (truth-table tests); Wednesday Feb 29th (proofs in truth-functional  sentential logic) Wednesday Mar 14th  (formal representation of predicate and quantificational structure of  English).  The last class will be on Wednesday April 11th.