PHIL218A
Issues in in Epistemology/Metaphysics; Reasoning for Humans: Clear Thinking in an Uncertain World
What makes some transitions of thought rational or reasonable and others irrational or erratic? This course will use methods from logic and probability to analyze experiments about how humans reason and philosophical questions about the nature of reasoning, with special emphasis on different philosophical aspects of the problem of induction and on the relation between probability, deductive logic and inductive logic.
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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.
Average GPA of 3.12 between 31 students*
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.