Baby logic (again)
Thomas Forster
I have heard from
Aberdeen,Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Central Lancashire, Durham, UEA,
Exeter, Glasgow, Greenwich, Hertfordshire, Heythrop, Keele, Liverpool,
Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan (Cheshire), Middlesex, Nottingham,
Southampton, Sussex, UCL, Warwick
and i am grateful to correspondents from those places for the information
they have supplied. If any of you can tell me about other institutions
not listed above i would be very grateful.
tf
> I am trying to get a picture of the current state of logic teaching
> in philosophy departments in Britain. If you are based in a
> university
> in a thing that has `philosophy' in its title i would be very grateful
> if you could tell me
>
> (i) Whether or not your institution has a logic course. (Here i
> don't
> mean critical reasoning; i mean nasty hard core stuff with
> truth-tables, horrid symbols, quantifiers and the like)
>
> (ii) if there is such a course, is it compulsory for philosophy
> majors?
>
> (iii) if the status wrt Q(i) & (ii) has changed recently
>
> I shall summarise responses and post the result. (Since there are
> many
> dozens of universities in the UK and many of them have philosophy
> departments this might take a while!)
>
> thanks in advance
>
> tf
>
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