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Undergraduate Course: Formal Methods in Philosophy (PHIL10140)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course is an introduction to a variety of different formal approaches to philosophy. In this course, core concepts from areas such as the following will be introduced and discussed:
1. Basic Propositional and Predicate Logic, Basic Set Theory.
2. Formal Semantics.
3. Propositional Modal Logic.
4. Conditionals.
5. Probability Theory.
6. Decision Theory.
7. Game Theory.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Mind, Matter and Language (PHIL08014) AND Knowledge and Reality (PHIL08017) AND Logic 1 (PHIL08004)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesVisiting students should have at least 3 Philosophy courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses.
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
The aim of this course is to give students a background and understanding of various formal tools often used in philosophy. This will enable to them to apply these tools to philosophical problems across a wide range of disciplines. Furthermore, it will also ensure that when students are faced with problems or arguments that uses, or appeals to uses of, these formal tools, they will be equipped to understand and evaluate the problems or arguments.
Reading List
Jonathan Bennett (2003) ¿Conditionals¿, Oxford University Press.
Irene Heim and Angelika Kratzer (1998) ¿Semantics in Generative Grammar¿ Blackwell Publishing.
James McCawley (1993) ¿Everything that Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know about Logic ¿ But Were Ashamed to Ask¿ 2nd edition, The Chicago University Press.
Graham Priest (2008) ¿An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic¿, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press.
Michael Resnik (1987) ¿Choices: An Introduction to Decision Theory¿ University of Minnesota Press.
Michael Strevens (2006) ¿Notes on Bayesian Confirmation Theory¿, unpublished ms.
Theodore Sider (2010) ¿Logic for Philosophy¿, Oxford University Press.
Brian Weatherson (2008) ¿Lecture Notes on Game Theory¿, unpublished ms.
Jonathan Weisberg (2011) ¿Varieties of Bayesianism¿ In ¿Handbook of the History of Logic¿ (ed. Dov Gabbay, Stephan Hartmann and John Woods).
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Anders Schoubye
Tel:
Email: aschouby@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Susan Richards
Tel: (0131 6)51 3733
Email: sue.richards@ed.ac.uk
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