Philosophy-111 Critical Thinking And Writing:

Self-Testing Quizzes

Table of Self-Testing Quizzes and Exams:

To best prepare for each of our 4 online exams in this course, use these links by topic to practice your skills at critical thinking and writing:

Topics	Key Concepts	Quizz Links
Topic 1: Basic Logic Concepts Exam #1 on all Key Concepts	What Logic Is. Propositions Sentences. Arguments, Premises, and Conclusions, Analyzing Arguments, Validity. Soundness, Induction, Deduction, Cogency	Phil. Pages Phil. Pages Lander.edu(Quizzes) Govier Text Quizzes Copi Chapter and Sample Test Logic Puzzles
Topic 2: Informal Fallacies Exam #2 on all concepts on Topic 2 (Latin names included)	Informal Fallacies of: Relevance, Presumption, and Ambiguity.	Exercises & Quizzes Copi Chapter and Sample Test
Topic 3: Categorical Propositions Exam #3 on all concepts on Topic 3	Categorical terms, propositions and arguments. Quantity & Quality of Propositions. Square of Opposition. Distribution of a Term.	lander.edu Copi Chapter and Sample Test
Topic 4: Categorical Syllogisms Exam #4 on all concepts on Topic 4 Exam date: TBA	Syllogistic Reasoning. Major, Minor and Middle terms. Immediate Inferences. Mood & Figure. Venn Diagrams. The Six Rules.	Copi Chapter and Sample Test Syllogism Evaluator
Topic 5: Arguments in Ordinary Lanuage	Translating every day language into categorical propositions and syllogisms	Copi Chapter and Sample Test
Topic 6: Symbolic Logic	Logical Symbols. Argument Forms. Statement Forms. Rules of Inference. Rules of Replacement.	Copi Chapter and Sample Test
Topic 7: Methods of Deduction	Propositional (Symbolic Logic)	Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Copi Chapter and Sample Test
Topic 8: Inductive Inferences	Nature of Inductive Reasoning. Arguments and Refutation from Analogy. Cause and Effect Reasoning. Scientific Method. Mills Methods. Science and Hypothesis. Probability Theory.	Copi Chapter and Sample Test
Topic 9: Causal Reasoning	Defines the necessary and sufficient conditions for something to be the 'cause' of some other thing.	Copi Chapter and Sample Test
Topic 10: Analogical Reasoning	Defines the necessary and sufficient conditions for successful entialment by analogical premises in an argument	Copi Chapter and Sample Test
Essays 1 & 2 Term Paper	Assigned in Class.
Final Exam	Final Exam: Format, Content, Date and Time to be announced in class	Review 1 Review 2