G) Detailed Lesson Plan for Each Lecture

 

 

Week 

Topics and Readings

Books with Page No.

1

Introduction:

  
 

Basic Concepts Recognizing Arguments Diagramming arguments

  

2

Deduction and Induction

  
 

Truth, Validity and Soundness

  
 

Counter example

  
 

Problem Solving

  

3

Classical Deductive Logic: The logic of terms

  
 

Categorical Proposition

  
 

Immediate Inferences

  
 

Square of Opposition

  
 

Obsession, Conversion Contraposition

  

4

Categorical Syllogism: Mood and Figure

  
 

Categorical Syllogism:

  
 

Validity with the help of Venn Diagram Validity with the help of Rules and Fallacies

  
 

Weak Syllogisms and existential import

  

5

Translation of Ordinary language propositions into standard categorical Form

  
 

Categorical Syllogism in ordinary language Enthymemes Sorites

  

6

Disjunctive Syllogism (Both Exclusive and inclusive)

  
 

Hypothetical Syllogism: Modus Ponens, Modus Tollens and Pure HS

  
 

Dilemma

  
 

Reduction ad Absurdum

  

        7

Modern Deductive Logic: The Logic of

  
 

Propositions

  
 

Propositional Calculus: Syntax and

  
 

Semantics

  
 

Logical Connectives: Negation, Conjunction, Disjunction, Conditional, & Bi conditional

  
 

Truth Table: Truth value of molecular proposition, Equivalence, Contradiction and Tautologies, Validity

  

      8

Shorter Truth Table: Validity and Counter example

  
 

Other Methods:

  
 

Truth Tree and its applications

  
 

Formal Deduction and validity

  

9

Predicate Logic: Quantifiers

  
 

Translation of ordinary language proposition into Predicate Logic Validity

  
 

Counter example

  

10

Predicate Logic:

  
 

Validity with Truth trees Validity with Formal Deduction Identity

  

11

Induction:

  
 

Inductive Generalization and Fallacies of

  
 

Generalization

  
 

Inductive Analogy

  
 

Causality and Mill’s Methods

  

12

Guest Speaker Lecture

  

13

Statistical Reasoning

  

14

explanation: Scientific and unscientific* The Pattern of Scientific Inquiry Evaluation of Hypotheses

  

15

Modal Logic

  

      16

Modal Logic