Introduction to Logic, Critical Thinking

The course is a study of the processes by which the intellect conceptualizes, applies, analyzes, synthesizes, and evaluates the information it gathers from observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, and communication. The course also examines the elements of thought implicitin reasoning, such as assumptions, concepts, conclusions, implications, consequences, and frame of reference. Problems of moral philosophy and moral judgments, such as cultural relativism and subject ivismare also addressed.Theoretical approaches for answering questions about right and wrong are considered.