GST 212: Philosophy, Logic and Human Existence

Learning Outcomes

A student who has successfully gone through this course should be able to:

1. know the basic features of philosophy as an academic discipline;
2. identify the main branches of philosophy & the centrality of logic in philosophical discourse;
3. know the elementary rules of reasoning;
4. distinguish between valid and invalid arguments;
5. think critically and assess arguments in texts, conversations and day-to-day discussions;
6. critically asses the rationality or otherwise of human conduct under different existential conditions;

• develop the capacity to extrapolate and deploy expertise in logic to other areas of knowledge, and
• guide his or her actions, using the knowledge and expertise acquired in philosophy and logic.