Courses in UCD

AE-QN208 - Critical Thinking Tutor: Angelo Bottone Course Start Date: 30/01/2017 Course End Date: 20/03/2017 No. of Sessions: 8 Start Time: 19.00 Duration (Hours): 2.00 Location: Belfield Fee: €160

Course Description Well-being starts with a clear mind. The aim of this course is to enable students to think critically and argue coherently. You will learn to analyse the structure of an argument, to distinguish logical from psychological reasons and to identify the most common errors in reasoning. The different forms of justification of knowledge (deduction, induction, statistical evidence) will be examined, together with the concepts of truth and validity of arguments. Symbols and technicalities will be kept to a minimum. No previous knowledge is required.

Course Schedule 8 Mondays: 7.00pm-9.00pm Jan 30, Feb 6, 13, 20, 27, March 6, 13, 20

Provisional List of Key Topics • Analysis of arguments. • Logical and psychological arguments. • Validity and truth. • Deduction and Induction. • Formal and informal fallacies. • Causality, statistical evidence. More information here: http://tinyurl.com/jpaafl3