tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post5924382787476875203..comments2024-03-14T04:16:20.472-07:00Comments on In Socrates' Wake: Reader query: Teaching logic and the 'practice of reasoned argument'Michael Cholbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02012523929044363216noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-13224140306911961142012-09-16T13:28:18.505-07:002012-09-16T13:28:18.505-07:00If you'll excuse the shameless self-promotion,...If you'll excuse the shameless self-promotion, I think that the <i><a href="http://www.hackettpublishing.com/a-workbook-for-arguments-a-complete-course-in-critical-thinking-2694" rel="nofollow">Workbook for Arguments</a></i> that Anthony Weston and I published with Hackett does a good job of this. (Well, really, it's that Weston's <i>Rulebook for Arguments</i> does a good job with it, and we built the <i>Workbook</i> on top of his <i>Rulebook</i>.)<br /><br />The <i>Workbook</i> doesn't introduce any of the technical apparatus (e.g., truth tables), although you can easily do that in class. (I do.) Instead, it focuses on training students to recognize and use some basic rules of deductive logic in natural language arguments. You can <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=30GCUaslBk4C&lpg=PP1&ots=8Z_zTmuTjc&dq=morrow%20weston&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">see some of the relevant chapter (Chapter VI) on Google Books</a>.david morrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17628941227584383772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-79470657248405421972012-08-22T05:46:40.673-07:002012-08-22T05:46:40.673-07:00One thing I remember having to do as an undergrad ...One thing I remember having to do as an undergrad is to create my own argument and then prove it. The instructor provided a sort of "word bank" of propositions, relations, and predicates. There were also restrictions on how many premises were allowed and how many of the rules we had to use. Extra credit was given for humor and for other things, though I can't remember all the details. This is actually more difficult than it sounds, and it's also a lot of fun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-75012929074093711892012-08-21T07:17:29.646-07:002012-08-21T07:17:29.646-07:00Encourage students to discover applications of the...Encourage students to discover applications of the formal system in everyday discourse [sports (if team x wins and team y loses then...), other classes; local letters to the editor etc.].Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338078632530539703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-16850491775300174912012-08-21T05:49:30.518-07:002012-08-21T05:49:30.518-07:00Richard Feldman's Reason and Argument textbook...Richard Feldman's Reason and Argument textbook might work for your purposes here. Nathan Nobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12152631338134046080noreply@blogger.com