PHIL 1250 - Reasoning and Rational Decision-Making (HU, GC)

Institution:

Utah Tech University

Subject:

Philosophy

Description:

Fulfills a General Education Humanities requirement and is an approved Global and Cultural Perspectives course. Strengthens critical thinking skills through analyzing and evaluating arguments, a basic logical framework, Aristotelian logic, the principles of Charity and Socratic Humility, beginning logic of sentences, fallacies, probability, statistical reasoning, and other forms of inductive argument in order to train students to recognize, evaluate, and construct arguments. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Gain understanding of big questions of Epistemology found in the history of philosophy. 2. Analyze claims, definitions, and concepts presented by important historical figures concerning the nature and purpose of knowledge, and discuss their efforts, both in discussion and in formal writing. 3. Construct a well-reasoned, well-articulated argument about the subject of their choosing.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.utahtech.edu/

Phone Number:

(435) 652-7500

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

General Education

• HU - Literature and Humanities

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