COURSE UNIT TITLE

: APPLIED LOGIC

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 5194 APPLIED LOGIC 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 OSMAN BILEN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

To provide students to make practice on "concepts", "propositions" and "inferences", especially five arts and fallacies by giving a lot of exercises. To show how to apply logic in daily basis life on plenty examples such as sentences, articles, anecdotes, advertisements and so on; thus, it will be seen that logic is very crucial in daily life and it is an enjoyable academic discipline.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students find an opportunity for analysing the concept of `Logic .
2   Students will learn "definition", its types and the rules of it so that they will be able to use concepts in apple-pie order and not fall into confusion in using concepts. (revised)
3   Students Will develop to analyze arguments to quickly understand what could be deducted from what or vice versa and ability control between premiss and conclusion.
4   Students learn the ways aware during speaking and writing from mistakes quickly.
5   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 Correct and Consistent Reasoning
2 Critical and analytical Reasoning
3 Obstacles to Correct Reasoning
4 Ways to Avoid the Obstacles to Correct Reasoning
5 Assent and its Types
6 Certitude and its Terms
7 Midterm Exam
8 Knowledge and Suspicion
9 Discussion Techniques
10 Discussion Principles in the Quran
11 Convince and its Ways
12 Poetry and Truth
13 Action Mistakes and Preservation against Mistakes
14 Logical Analysis on Examples

Recomended or Required Reading

Ibrahim Emiroğlu, Mantık Yazıları (Logic Reviews,), Ankara, 2016.
Ibrahim Emiroğlu, Yanlış Düşünce ve Davranışlar Karşısında Mevlânâ (Mevlana: Against false thoughts and behaviors), Istanbul 2009.
Ibrahim Emiroğlu, Mantık Yanlışları (Logical Fallacies), Ankara 2004.
Toulmin, Stephen, The Uses of Argument, Cambridge 2006.
Yaran, Cafer Sadık; Informel Mantığa Giriş (Introduction to Informal Logic), Istanbul, 2010.
Ibrahim Emiroğlu, Ders materyali (Lecture materials) (Pps: 200 slayt)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, research, question - answer, observation on examples, task and practice.

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Students learn the main issues and problems of logic, arguments (Five Arts) in terms of their values of content and purpose. In this way, they adopt mentioned things and develop their analysis knowledge and skills

Assessment Criteria

The students will be assessed based on success in their mid-term and final exams along with their performance during the classes throughout the semester.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ibemir@hotmail.com; ibrahim.emiroglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Cuma 14:00 17:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.13354
LO.23354
LO.33354
LO.43354
LO.53354

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