Sections 01-09: MW 10am-10:50am, CB 118
Sections 10-18: MW 1pm-1:50pm, BioSci 107
Spring 2011
PHI 120
Presentation: "Syllabus"
If you don't have a syllabus, then raise your hand
(and keep it up until we get you one.)

Homework Assignments
• Lecture Homework
– Read Ch. 1 of J/H Introductory Logic
• Answer "review questions," p.22: 1, 4 – 8, 10
(Your answers may be collected in recitation.)
• Recitation Homework
– Typically assigned by recitation instructor

This is a no computer classroom
Please turn off all cell phones and put away computers!

Fall 2010
PHI 120
Presentation: "Syllabus"
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If you don't have a syllabus, then raise your hand.
Since your hand isn’t raised, you, therefore, have a syllabus.
Premises
Conclusion

• Office
– 1429 Patterson Office Tower
• Contact Information
– bob.sandmeyer@uky.edu
– ph. 257-7749
My Office Hours
M & W: 11am – 12:00pm
Tues: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
(or by appointment)
Early in the week

Class Web Site http://sweb.uky.edu/~rsand1/phi120/ tilde – rsand -- onephi -- 120
• Important documents
– Syllabus
– Recitation Information (time, place, instructor and email, and syllabus)
– Office Hours
(including recitation instructors’ office hours)
– Class Handouts
– Lecture Presentations

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Printing Presentations

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Grading
• 3 exams
– 20% each of total grade
– Administered in the lecture classroom
• Quizzes/Homeworks
– Administered in recitation sections
• 20% - quizzes
• 20% - homework
= 60%
= 40%
Total =100%

Attendance
• Lecture attendance is mandatory
– Taken irregularly
• Recitation attendance is mandatory
– Taken regularly

Attendance
• Lecture attendance is mandatory
– Taken irregularly
• Recitation attendance is mandatory
– Taken regularly
Attendance Policy (“extra credit”)
 Carrot
• Zero unexcused absences = +3% of total grade
• One unexcused absence = no penalty
 Stick
• For 2 nd and each subsequent unexcused absence: -2% points
• 
7 = 50% deduction of total grade

Two Classrooms, One Course
• Lecture (twice a week)
• Recitation Section (once a week)

Two Classrooms, One Course
• Lecture (twice a week)
– Major themes & principles of method
– Reading assignments
• Some exercises assigned for homework
– Attendance “quizzes”
– 3 Exams: 60% of total score

Two Classrooms, One Course
• Lecture (twice a week)
• Recitation Section (once a week)
– Practical instruction – prep for exams
• Regular homework: 20% of grade
• Quizzes: 20% of grade
• Attendance

Two Classrooms, One Course

Academic Integrity
• Zero tolerance
– If cheating is confirmed, you will fail this class
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Special Accommodations
• Letters of Accommodation
– Disability Resource Center
Let me know
Special Needs
Regarding
Lectures or
Presentations
• Your job
– Coordinate with your recitation instructor
• Inform the Recitation Instructor ASAP
– Waiting could affect accommodations

PHI 120

Books available at UK Bookstore or Kennedy’s

PHI 120

Inference-Logic
III. INFERENCE-LOGIC (with Statistics or Calculus Options)
Upon completion of the inference-logic requirement, students will be able to: (1) draw reasonable inferences from data, observations, and logical premises; (2) evaluate the quality of an argument or solution; and (3) use principles of formal reasoning to solve problems.

Inference-Logic
• students will be able to: (1) draw reasonable inferences from
• quality of an argument or solution; and (3) use principles of
• formal reasoning to solve problems.

Argument Diagram
Inference-Logic
University Studies Program (Fall 2009)
“All” = universal statement
1. All UK students must fulfill the inference-logic requirement.
2. If you are enrolled in classes, then you are a UK student.
i.
You are enrolled in this class.
ii.
Therefore you are a UK student.
3. Hence you must fulfill the inference-logic requirement.
“You” = member of the logical class - UK students

Argument Diagram
Premises (joint)
University Studies Program (Fall 2009)
Intermediate
Main Conclusion Conclusion
1. All UK students must fulfill the inference-logic requirement.
2. If you are enrolled in classes, then you are a UK student.
i.
You are enrolled in this class.
ii.
Therefore you are a UK student.
3. Hence you must fulfill the inference-logic requirement.

Argument Diagram
Inference-Logic
University Studies Program (Fall 2009)
1. All UK students must fulfill the inference-logic requirement.
2. If you are enrolled in classes, then you are a UK student.
i.
You are enrolled in this class.
ii.
Therefore you are a UK student.
3. Hence you must fulfill the inference-logic requirement.

Inference-Logic
To fulfill the inference-logic requirement, complete one of the following:
• Any calculus course (MA 113, MA 114, MA 123, MA 132, MA 213, MA 214), or
• STA 200 Statistics: A Force in Human Judgment, PLUS
• PHI 120 Introductory Logic, or PHI 320 Symbolic Logic I

Inference-Logic
1. Either calculus or
. . .
To fulfill the inference-logic requirement, complete one of the following:
• Any calculus course (MA 113, MA 114, MA 123, MA 132, MA 213, MA 214), or
• STA 200 Statistics: A Force in Human Judgment, PLUS
• PHI 120 Introductory Logic, or PHI 320 Symbolic Logic I

1. Either calculus or (statistics and logic)
2. You are not taking calculus
3. Consequently you are taking statistics and logic
4. It follows necessarily you are taking logic
5. Given that all of you are taking logic now, I also infer that some of you have probably already taken statistics.

Argument Diagram
1. Either calculus or (statistics and logic)
2. You are not taking calculus
3. Consequently you are taking statistics and logic
4. It follows necessarily you are taking logic
5. Given that all of you are taking logic now, I also infer that some of you have probably already taken statistics.

Argument Diagram
2. You are not taking calculus
3. Consequently you are taking statistics and logic
4. It follows necessarily you are taking logic
5. Given that all of you are taking logic now, I also infer that some of you have probably already taken statistics.
Conclusion follows with certainty.
Conclusion follows with some degree of probability.

Homework Assignments
• Lecture
– Read Ch. 1 of J/H Introductory Logic
• Answer "review questions," p.22: 1, 4 – 8, 10
(Your answers may be collected in recitation.)
• Homework in recitation
– Typically assigned by recitation instructor