Simple Logic - Hardcover

Bonevac, Daniel; Solomon, Robert C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0155031716 ISBN 13: 9780155031715

Publisher: Harcourt College Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Written by an accomplished teacher, scholar, and writer, Simple Logic is unique in its sensitivity to today's student audience; it provides philosophical writing samples that are of interest and relevance to students' lives. Daniel Bonevac's clear writing style and careful presentation helps students to easily understand key concepts, terms, and examples. He features a multitude of interesting and relevant examples drawn from literary texts and contemporary culture, including figures as varied as Voltaire, Confucius, and Bart Simpson.
Simple Logic succeeds in conveying the standard topics in introductory logic with easy-to-understand explanations of rules and methods, while concentrating the discussion on fundamental topics taught by the majority of logic instructors.

About this title

Synopsis

Simple Logic is a first-edition philosophy text that focuses on its student audience. It is intended for an introduction-to-logic course, with philosophical writing samples that are interesting and relevant to students' lives, drawn from literary texts and contemporary culture. Within one section, Bonevac gives examples from Voltaire, Confucius, and Bart Simpson. Features: * Chapter 7 includes a simplified semantic tableaux system. * The text includes a proper concentration of effort in developing the topics that instructors really teach. * The text features an improved presentation of the standard material for an introduction-to-logic course. Students and instructors both benefit from the text's clear explanations of rules and methods. * Definitions of key concepts are set off from the text.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harcourt College Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0155031716
• ISBN 13: 9780155031715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 588