The University of the West Indies, Mona

This course provides an introduction to essential principles of reasoning and critical thinking. It is designed to enhance students’ ability to evaluate various forms of reasoning and to examine critically beliefs, conventions and theories, and to develop sound arguments - good arguments, fair argumentation, and validity. Topics include fundamentals of logic and analysis, the concept of ‘definition,’ conceptual analysis, logical fallacies, deduction and induction, analytic and synthetic propositions, and scientific method and explanation.