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