Instructor: assoc.prof. Virginija Jakimenko, ph. 2714 628, vijak@mruni.eu
Language of Instruction: English
Reqiured prerequisites: none
Suggested academic cycle or year of studies: Bachelor degree studies
ECTS credits : 6 Local credits: 4
Contact hours per week : 3
Semester: Spring
Methods of Teaching: lectures, seminars, tests, research paper
The course is devoted to introduce students with logic as a study of reasoning.
The purpose of this course is to give students the knowledge of patterns of reasoning and relations between validity and truth. The course provides the acquaintance with the conception of scientific theory, scientific data, scientific method.
Reading list:
1. Chalmers A.F. What is thing Called Science? Third edition. University of Queensland Press,
1999.
2. CopiI., Cohen C. Introduction to Logic. N.J. Twelfth edition., 2005.
3. Phelan P., Reinolds P. Argument and evidence. Critical analysis for the social sciences.
Routledge, 1998.
4. Tomassi Paul. Logic. Routledge, 2004.