Ticket number 17735 M & W 12:30 - 1:45 PM SH 224
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6 units of philosophy including PHIL 230; at least one of PHIL 346, 350, 355, or 360 is also strongly recommended
Professor Cindy Stern Email: cindy.stern@csun.edu
(818) 677-4853, Sierra Tower 508
Office hours: M W 7:00-7:45 AM, M 2:00-2:30 PM, W 2:00-3:00 PMPhilosophy Department (818) 677-2757, Sierra Tower 522 and 524
An examination of philosophical issues in logic, such as the nature of and choices between logical systems and the relation of logic to traditional philosophical issues.
First-order quantified logic, familiar from basic logic classes like PHIL 230, specifies truth-conditions for sentences such as ‘All humans are mortal’ and ‘Some philosophers are ethicists’. However, it does not provide suitable formal translations and truth-conditions for sentences withWe will consider proposals for the semantics of such sentences, and relationships between such semantic proposals and other areas of philosophical inquiry.
- other quantity indicators ('most','many', 'several')
- plural predication that does not seem to attribute a property to the group indicated by its plural subject, nor does it distribute to the individuals in the group (as in 'The students came from many different countries').
Plural Predication, by Thomas J. McKay. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN-10: 0-19-927814-8; ISBN-13: 13-978-0-19-927814-5. Additional readings in the form of journal articles may be assigned. Any such articles will be available online and/or via course reserves at Oviatt Library.
Course grades, using plusses and minuses, will be based on these requirements:
- Participation in class discussion of reading assignments
- Brief written responses to reading assignments
- One or two (the number not yet determined as of January 9) longer writing assignments (a term paper and perhaps a shorter midterm paper)
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