Undergraduate Course: Formal Methods in Philosophy (PHIL10140)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This 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.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting 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.
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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Michael Strevens (2006) ¿Notes on Bayesian Confirmation Theory¿, unpublished ms.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Brian Weatherson (2008) ¿Lecture Notes on Game Theory¿, unpublished ms.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).
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Anders Schoubye
Tel:
Email: Jackie.Allan@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Susan Richards
Tel: (0131 6)51 3733
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