ATS3878 - Recent logic - 2017

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Philosophy

Coordinator(s)

Mr Lloyd Humberstone

Unit guides

Offered

Clayton

  • Second semester 2017 (Day)

Synopsis

We shall examine some areas of recent formal logic whose development has been motivated by philosophical concerns (with modality, tense, morality, entailment, etc.) www.arts.monash.edu.au/phil/undergraduate/lateryear.html

Outcomes

  1. to provide students with a comprehensive grasp of recent contemporary logic;
  2. to give students a firm basis to advanced logical theory.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Prerequisites

ATS2866 or equivalent studies in formal logic.