COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LOGICAL FALLACIES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 5172 LOGICAL FALLACIES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR IBRAHIM EMIROĞLU

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

To make the attendants cognized about the construction aims of mistakes of logic and its examples. To make them ready against the mistakes which they may coincide.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Will find opportunity for analysing the concept of 'mistake'.
2   Will learn the subjective and external reasons of failing to the mistakes
3   Will see the frames of mistakes of informal and formal logic.
4   Will learn the ways abstaining during speaking and writing from mistakes.
5   Will grasp the importance of not making mistakes in scientific, philosophical and religious areas.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The concecpt of mistake in logic and its importance
2 Handling of mistakes in logic
3 The Subjective reasons of failing
4 The External reasons of failing
5 Mistakes concerning with language
6 Mistakes is not concerned with language
7 General without-content mistakes
8 Mid-term exam
9 Subjective without-content mistakes
10 Corrupted evidence mistakes
11 Arbitrarily constructed deficient evidence mistakes
12 Wrong suspicions
13 Action mistakes and preservation against mistakes
14 Logical analysis on examples

Recomended or Required Reading

Emiroğlu, Ibrahim, Mantık Yanlışları, Elis, Ankara, 2004.
Aristoteles, Sofistlerin Çürütmeleri Üzerine, Çev. Oğuz Özügül, Say, Istanbul, 2007.
Emiroğlu, Yanlış Düşünce ve Davranışlar Karşısında Mevlânâ, Insan Yay., Istanbul, 2009 (III. Baskı).
Irving M. Copi, Introduction to Logic.
Madsen Pırıe, The Book of The Fallacy.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing - Discussions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.10 + FIN* 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.10 + RST* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Will grasp the importance of not making mistakes in scientific, philosophical and religious areas.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ibrahim.emiroglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Free

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Reading 4 5 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 153

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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