ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Philosophy and Anthropology
Areas: Logic and Philosophy of Science
Center Faculty of Philosophy
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Objetives corresponding to specific competences:
- Coming to understand the main problems in the field of philosophy of classical logic.
- Coming to understand the principal questions that gave rise to the development of non-classical logics and the consequent alternative proposals.
- To acquire or/and improve skills of analysis of problems and texts.
- To acquire or/and improve argumentative abilities and skills.
- To acquire or/and improve communicative and expressive abilities and skills (oral and written).
- To acquire the ability to explain this knowledge inside and outside of the philosophical field and to be able to teach how to learn them.
- To acquire the ability to organize information, make decisions, lay out and solve problems.
- To get to know how to increase and develop this knowledge by subsequent investigation.
1. The notion of infinity: between mathematics and philosophy. Elements of set theory and computability theory. Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
2. The Liar Paradox. Tarski's conception of truth. Logical properties of the truth predicate.
3. Quine's critique of the analytic-synthetic distinction and the conventionalist conception of logical necessity. The Quinean conception of logical necessity. Some criticism of Quine.
4. The problem of referential opacity. The formal logical treatment of modal notions. Possible World Semantics and Semantic Tableau. The notion of a possible world. Platonism and modal actualism.
Basic:
Topic 1
Martinez Vidal, C. y Plebani, M., “Nociones básicas de teoría de conjuntos”, online resource that will be available on the virtual campus .
Badesa, C., Jané, I., e Jansana, R.,(1998), Elementos de Lógica Formal, Ariel: Barcelona.
Rayo, A. 2019 On the Brink of Paradox: Highlights from the Intersection of Philosophy and Mathematics. The MIt Press: USA.
Chapters 1 and 2 Smith, P., “Gödel without (too many) tears”. Available here: http://www.logicmatters.net/igt/godel-without-tears/
Topic 2
Selected fragments in Tarski, A., [1997], “La concepción semántica de la verdad y los fundamentos de la semántica”, Teorías de la Verdad en el siglo XX, Juan Antonio Nicolás y Maria José Frápolli (eds), Técnos : Madrid.
García Suárez A. 2011. Modos de significar. Técnos: Madrid. Capítulo 6 y 7.
García Suárez A. 2019. Nuevas aproximaciones a los modos de significar. Técnos: Madrid.Capítulos 8 y 9.
Smullyan, R. M. (1957). Languages in which self-reference is possible. The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 22(01), 55-67.
Topic 3
To discuss in lectures:
Quine, W.V., 1951, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, in his From a Logical Point of View, second edition revised, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 20–46. Traducido como “Dos dogmas del empirismo” en Desde un punto de vista lógico y en La búsqueda del significado.
In case this paper had been read in Filosofía del Lenguaje the year before, we would start reminding Quine's argument in that paper and proceed to read the following papers:
• Quine, W.V., 1936, “Truth by Convention”, in The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, revised edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976, pp. 77–106.
• Quine, W.V., 1954, “Carnap and Logical Truth”, in The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, revised edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976, pp. 107–32.
• Priest, G. 1979, “Two Dogmas of Quineanism”. The Philosophical Quarterly (1950-), Vol. 29, No. 117, pp. 289-301
Bibliografía:
García Suarez A. 2011, Modos de significar, Técnos: Madrid. Capítulo 8.
García Suárez A. 2019. Nuevas aproximaciones a los modos de significar. Técnos: Madrid. Capítulos 10.
Topic 4
García Suárez A. 1989 “Lógica Modal” en Garrido M (Ed) Lógica y Lenguaje, Técnos: Madrid, 157-177.
García Suarez A. 2011, Modos de significar, Técnos: Madrid. Capítulo 9.
(Eventually, Priest G. Non-classical Logics)
This subject should contribute to the acquisition by the student of the following competences
General competences
1) Graduates should have knowledge of the contents that pertain to philosophy as a discipline, including its doctrines, theories, methods and applications, at the level provided by academic texts and being able to refer to recent contributions.
2) Graduates should know how to apply this knowledge to identify, formulate and solve problems in the field of Philosophy, at a general and non-specialized level.
3) Graduates should be able to transmit this knowledge and the ideas, questions and solutions that Philosophy offers, both to the general public and to a specialized audience.
4) Graduates should be able to continue his or her formation, in Philosophy and/or in other fields of knowledge, with a high grade of autonomy
Specific competences
1) Get to know and discuss the main theories, methods, applications and schools of thought in the philosophy of logic.
2) Be able to learn and explain that knowledge.
3) Be able to expand on what they have learnt and further develop this knowledge through research.
4) Be able to apply this knowledge within and outside the philosophical field.
5) Have the ability to analyze and synthesize, argue logically, reflect and deliberate on ethical terms.
6) Have the ability to express, communicate, debate and negotiate.
7) Have the ability to organize information, make decisions, plan and solve problems.
10) Capacity of reaction and constructive spirit: proactivity, inventiveness, creativity, industriousness and adaptability in changing, problematic and / or adverse contexts.
Scenario 1
Lectures
The teacher in charge will introduce the different issues that are to be addressed throughout the course.
Practical sessions
They will be interactive seminar sessions in which the texts to be worked on throughout the course will be discussed and commented on.
The tasks to be carried out outside class hours and to be delivered to the responsible teachers will be established weekly in preparation for the readings (summaries, diagrams, etc.).
Students will be provided with a text analysis methodology to be taken into account.
There will be an examination of each of the texts read and worked on in topics 1,2,3 and 4.
Tutorial activities
At the beginning of the course, 1.5 hours of the three tutorials corresponding to each student will be devoted to reviewing first-order logic (2nd course of Elementary Logic).
Scenarios 2 and 3
Lectures
The teacher in charge will introduce the different issues that are to be addressed throughout the course.
In this scenarios, lectures will take place through Teams, synchronously, and also in a recorded version available on the virtual campus. Questions may be asked through Teams or through a forum set up for this purpose on the virtual campus in the case of recorded sessions.
Practical Sessions
They will be mainly dedicated to solving exercises that illustrate and expand on what is explained in the lectures.
The sessions will take place through Teams, or through the assignment of tasks that will be fed back through the virtual campus.
Tutorial activities
The students will be divided into several groups and in the middle of the semester, approximately, in one or two sessions that will add up to a total of 3 hours of student work, the following activities will be carried out:
-Customized evaluation of the work carried out by the student in the first part of the course, which will indicate which aspects the student is working adequately and which ones need improvement.
- The tutorials will be carried out using the Teams enabled by the USC.
Use of the virtual platform of the USC
Materials will be available on the virtual campus. The virtual campus will be used as a complementary tool that WILL IN NO EVENT SUBSTITUTE FOR ON-SITE TEACHING.
Students will be divided into several groups and approximately halfway through the semester into one or two sessions that will add up to a total of 3 hours of student work, in which there will be a personalized evaluation of the work done by the student in the first part. of the course which will indicate which aspects the student is working properly and in which he has to improve.
Scenario 1
First Opportunity
Continuous assessment
It will consist of the delivery of questionnaires, diagrams, or summaries that will be made in the student's personal work time and that will also be presented in class, in addition to two partial exams.
Schemes, summaries, and questionnaires completed and/or presented in class, at least one per subject. In the case of questions, they will be done in class and without prior notice: 20%
Periodic exams topics 1, 2, 3 and 4: 80% of the total
Written tests will be carried out on each of the texts and materials read and worked on in topics 1,2, 3, and 4. The tests will be eliminatory for people who obtain a grade higher than 4 out of 8.
The absence of more than three sessions without justification supposes the loss of the right to continuous evaluation and the need to take the full final exam of the subject.
Final exam
People who do not avail themselves of the continuous evaluation modality will take the complete final exam of the subject on the date indicated by the faculty.
Second opportunity
People who have taken the continuous evaluation modality and have obtained a grade equal to or greater than 5 in any of the partial exams, will not have to be examined on that part a second time.
People who have not taken the continuous assessment modality will have to go to Second Opportunity with all the subjects addressed along the semester.
Scenarios 2 and 3
First chance
Keep going
1) 80% of the total mark will come given by the marks obtained in the tests and/or exercises and comments delivered on the contents of the program. These tests and/or exercises can be carried out in class (through Teams) or through the ‘questionnaire’ or ‘homework’ tools, to be carried out within a given period.
Whoever does not pass any of the tests mentioned above, will have to recover them in the final exam on the date indicated by the faculty.
Corrections for these tasks will be made in class (with the collaboration of the students) through Teams or posted on the virtual campus.
2) Remaining 20% will respond to the qualification obtained in the final test, which will surely be done online on the date indicated by the faculty.
The non-completion or non-delivery of more than two tests or tasks (in total) implies the loss of the right to continuous assessment and the need to take the full final exam of the subject.
If you did not make it up in that final exam in January, you will have to take the second chance exam with all the material.
Final exam
People who do not use the continuous assessment modality will take the complete final exam of the subject on the date indicated by the faculty.
Second Opportunity
100% of the grade will consist of the grade obtained in the final exam of the 2nd opportunity to be done electronically on the official date indicated by the faculty.
In the event that a student has accepted the continuous evaluation system, that is, if he has not more than three unexcused absences, and has passed (obtained at least 5) in the tests and / or assignments delivered, he will not have to repeat this part in the final exam for second chance.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and the review of grades will apply ".
Scenarios 2 and 3
First Opportunity
Continuous Assessment
1) 80% of the total mark will come given by the marks obtained in the tests and/or exercises and comments delivered on the contents of the program. These tests and / or exercises can be carried out in class (through Teams) or through the ‘questionnaire’ or ‘homework’ tools, to be carried out within a given period.
Whoever does not pass any of the tests mentioned above, will have to recover them in the final exam on the date indicated by the faculty.
Corrections for these tasks will be made in class (with the collaboration of the students) through Teams or posted on the virtual campus.
2) Remaining 20% will respond to the qualification obtained in the final test, which will surely be done online on the date indicated by the faculty.
The non-completion or non-delivery of more than two tests or tasks (in total) implies the loss of the right to continuous assessment and the need to take the full final exam of the subject.
If you did not make it up in that final exam in January, you will have to take the second chance exam with all the material.
Final exam
People who do not use the continuous assessment modality will take the complete final exam of the subject on the date indicated by the faculty.
Second Opportunity
100% of the grade will consist of the grade obtained in the final exam of the 2nd opportunity to be done electronically on the official date indicated by the faculty.
In the event that a student has accepted the continuous evaluation system, that is, if he has not more than three unexcused absences, and has passed (obtained at least 5) in the tests and/or assignments delivered, he will not have to repeat this part in the final exam for Second Opportunity
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and the review of grades will apply."
Assessment of competences
• Continuous evaluation and partial examinations will allow the evaluation of general competences 1, 2, 3, and specific competencies 1 and 2,7 and 10.
• Oral presentation of texts in interactive teaching sessions: specifically the general competence 4 but also the rest of the general ones. In addition, specific competencies 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 10 will be evaluated.
Attendance exemption
Those students who have a teaching exemption:
1) Deliver the exercises that are proposed through the virtual Campus.
2) They will make an oral presentation of one of the compulsory reading texts of the course (personally or through video).
3) They will complete the final exam of the whole subject on the date indicated by the Faculty.
Classroom teaching
Lectures 24
Seminars lessons 24
Tutorial activities 3
Total 51
PERSONAL STUDENT WORK 99
TOTAL 150
Regular and on time assistance to lessons is mandatory.
Some of the recommended references are in English.
ORIGINALITY REQUIREMENT
Students should comply with the good-practices code of the USC. The code establishes that students should be intellectually honest in their quoting and paraphrasing. That is to say, they should include clear and accurate information about their quotes and about the contents they paraphrase avoiding plagiarism.
The non-observation of this norm implies not passing the subject either in the ordinary or extraordinary opportunities.
Contingency plan
See above Teaching Methodology Scenarios 2 and 3 and Assessment System Scenarios 2 and 3.
Maria De La Concepcion Martinez Vidal
Coordinador/a- Department
- Philosophy and Anthropology
- Area
- Logic and Philosophy of Science
- Phone
- 881812530
- mconcepcion.martinez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Ismael Ordóñez Miguéns
- Department
- Philosophy and Anthropology
- Area
- Logic and Philosophy of Science
- ismael.ordonez.miguens [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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