Rational Episodes Logic for the Intermittently Reasonable

Name: Rational Episodes Logic for the Intermittently Reasonable
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ISBN: 9781591027300

ISBN-10: 1591027306

ISBN-13: 9781591027300

Edition: 2009

Authors: Keith Parsons, Keith M. Parsons

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In this accessible, concise yet comprehensive introduction to a sometimes-formidable subject, Parsons presents elementary topics in logic for people who have little background in mathematics or science and have no career goals in those fields.

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List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 8/25/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.04" wide x 8.98" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

KEITH M. PARSONS is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston, Clear Lake and author of God and the Burden of Proof. He is editor of Philo, Journal of the Society of Humanist Philosophers.



Acknowledgments


Preface for Instructors


Preface for Students (You Really Should Read It)



What Is Logic?



Sentential Logic Basics



Sentential Logic Proofs



More Sentential Logic: Contradictions, Tautologies, and Assumptions



Predicate Logic Basics



Proofs in Predicate Logic



Probability: The Basic Rules of Life



The Theorem of Dr. Bayes



Probability Illusions: Why We Are So Bad at Inductive Reasoning



"Studies Have Shown" ... Or Have They?



Inference to the Best Explanation



Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion



Won't Get Fooled Again (Fallacies and Other Foibles)



Spin, Spin, Spin, Spin (Or How Not to Be a Sucker)



Everything You Know Is Wrong! Pseudoscience and Bogus Scholarship


Glossary


Index