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Year 4 Philosophy.
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 11.1 4th year
Prerequisite: Entry to fourth-year Honours.
Contact: Two hours a week.
Objectives:
This unit aims to give students an acquaintance with a selection of the concepts and results of modern logic beyond what is covered in Topics in Formal Logic (161-222/322). The process of gaining this acquaintance involves both theoretical discussion and a certain amount of practical experience with the formal techniques; it is hoped that by the end of the unit students have had enough of the latter to enable them to use some of these techniques in further study or research of logic and related areas of philosophy (or in logic-related areas of other disciplines, e. g. mathematics, linguistics, computer science).
Content:
Advanced topics in Formal Logic.
Assessment:
One 3-hour end-of-semester examination. An alternative assessment by up to 4,000 words of essay-work (either during the semester or as a take-away examination) may be permitted; students unable to complete this essay by the due date will be required to sit the examination. Students will be advised in the first week of the subject if this option is available.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 145)
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