May be used to fulfill general-education requirements for Marshall, Warren, and Eleanor Roosevelt Colleges. Strategies of scientific inquiry: how elementary logic, statistical inference, and experimental design are integrated to evaluate hypotheses in the natural and social sciences. May be used to fulfill general-education requirements for Warren and Eleanor Roosevelt Colleges. Multiple topics will be covered, and may include the existence of God, the nature of mind and body, free will, ethics and political philosophy, knowledge and skepticism.īasic concepts and techniques in both informal and formal logic and reasoning, including a discussion of argument, inference, proof, and common fallacies, and an introduction to the syntax, semantics, and proof method in sentential (propositional) logic. Lower DivisionĪ general introduction to some of the fundamental questions, texts, and methods of philosophy. Coursesįor course descriptions not found in the UC San Diego General Catalog 2023–24, please contact the department for more information. All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.
