Updated September 27, 2009
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| Irving Copi, author of Introduction to Logic |
We have the syllabus (html) or syllabus (pdf), or or syllabus (Open Document Format)
Click here for First Mid-term Study guide in .html. Or click here for First Mid-term Study guide in .pdf.Good luck.
Pete Suber has quite a lot from his courses online, which may be helpful.
A site with some tutorials at the University of Oxford might be good on introductory stuff. But tableaus are not something we are going to get into, so skip that.
Several websites have lists of fallacies, often many more than we have in our textbook. One such site is The Secular Web, which has a link to a list at The Nizkor Project.
Another good fallacy site is The Fallacy Files. One of the links in the Sources and Resources section of this site is broken, but worth reading. It is a piece by Dave Barry: How to Win Arguments, As It Were, which I found at this location. Very funny. And the fallacies of fallacies at Logical Fallacies is pretty funny too, if you know your fallacies. Logician have a wicked sense of humor!
A transcript of the Monty Python "Argument Clinic" maybe worth a look.
There seems to be (Sept., 2009) an interesting, from a "Fallacies in the Wild" point of view, Internet battle going on. It is political, and snarky, so you might want to not click these links if you can't understand satire and parody. It's about Glenn Beck. Looks to be primarily ad ignorantiam with some tu quoque thrown in, turning into an ad populum? The lesson is never go into a battle of wits unarmed. DidGlennBeckRapeAndMurderAYoungGirlIn1990.com Remember, our interest is in understanding incorrect reasoning, not the content. And WARNING: some of the comments get very, um, unpleasant.
Of course, the difficulty is that every teacher of logic seems to approach the subject differently, so that what you find on the web may not be useful or worse can be confusing. Don't be confused. If a web page uses unfamiliar terms and symbols, or explores different areas of logic, you can ignore them. Be selective if you are searching for help online. Or better yet, visit your instructor during office hours!
Stay tuned for further additions!