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.

Past Semesters

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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*

PHIL218A Grade Distribution+-05101520253035404550556065% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 3.23%
A: 58.06%
B: 3.23%
B+: 6.45%
C: 3.23%
F: 3.23%
W: 12.9%
other: 9.68%
* "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.