Good luck

Hope you did well in the Analytical Thought exam. Good luck for the rest of your exams!
Alex

Questions Questions Questions...

Hi,
if you're struggling with revising for the final exam and you have questions about aspects of the course relating to John's section and Julie's section you can e-mail them and they will post their replies on the blog:
John's e-mail address: John.rabone@nottingham.ac.uk
Julie's e-mail: Julie.King@nottingham.ac.uk

I am available at the following times for tutorials next week:
Monday 2-4pm
Tuesday 2-4pm
Wednesday 2-4pm
Thursday 2-4pm

I am not available at any other times. Please e-mail to book a 30 minute slot.
Alex

Dear students,
please take note of the following:

Tomorrow (Friday) I will be in the seminar room in the Business School from 9.30 onwards (until about 10.30) to talk to any student who wants information/advice regarding the exam (mid-term/final)
Download, from the Portal, the final exam from 2007 and start revising for the exam.
If you are struggling with the course make an appointment to see me next week.
Our final (next) lecture will be on the 8th of May (Friday from 9-11). I will be giving the lecture to help you prepare for the final exam.
Alex

More metaphors

The Open University has a couple of pages that explain metaphors in quite simple language. have a look at:
http://tscp.open.ac.uk/t185/html/wk1-2/introducingmetaphor.htm
and try the exercises as well:
http://tscp.open.ac.uk/t185/html/wk1-2/howcentraltothinking.htm

Have a look at this too. I think you'll find it very useful:
http://knowgramming.com/metaphors/metaphor_chapters/examples.htm
Alex

pitbull in lipstick ...struggling with metaphors?

Some students have been talking to me about metaphors. Here is a link to a really useful site that monitors new and interesting metaphors ... have a look
http://metaphorobservatory.blogspot.com/
Alex

Did you know?

Did you know you can look at the Analytical Thought final exam (2008) by logging on to the Portal?
Alex
PS It would very useful if you downloaded the 2008 paper!

John's law lecture

Here are the handouts from John's law lecture.

Alex

John's business lecture

Hi,
here are the handouts from John's lecture on business

Alex

lecture 7

Hi,
here is Julie's last lecture. I'll put up John's lectures later on today.
Alex

lecture 6 - Metaphor

Here are the lecture notes for Julie's second lecture on metaphor

Lecture 5

Hi,
here are the lecture notes from Monday 23rd of Feb.

Midterm exam

Hi everyone,
you need to practice before the midterm exam ... so I've decided to give you a copy of the midterm exam for last year.
Just click here to download it

Some very useful links

Hi,
I've found some very useful links relating to logic.
Critical Thinking on the Web has a large list of websites about all aspects of logic and fallacies.
Hong Kong University has a fantastic site conatining some very useful materials about critical thinking and logic. Visit this site ... it covers everything you need!

Philosophy Talk contains some interesting ideas about rationality and relativism and includes some audio interviews.

lecture four - Rationality and relativism

Here are the final powerpoint slides

Logic lecture three

Here is the powerpoint from the third lecture.

Logic is Marmite

Logic is like Marmite some people love it and, I'm afraid, some people hate it. It divides opinion. Here are a few thoughts on logic:

There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good
Burton Hillis

Logical errors are, I think, of greater practical importance than many people believe; they enable their perpetrators to hold the comfortable opinion on every subject in turn.
Bertrand Russell


Once master the machinery of Symbolic Logic, and you have a mental occupation always at hand, of absorbing interest, and one that will be of real use to you in any subject you may take up. It will give you clearness of thought—the ability to see your way through a puzzle—the habit of arranging your ideas in an orderly and get-at-able form—and, more valuable than all, the power to detect fallacies, and to tear to pieces the flimsy illogical arguments, which you will so continually encounter in books, in newspapers, in speeches, and even in sermons, and which so easily delude those who have never taken the trouble to master this fascinating Art.
Lewis Carroll


Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence
Joseph Wood Krutch


Better to be without logic than without feeling
Charlotte Brontë

Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

"How dreadful!" cried Lord Henry. "I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
Oscar Wilde

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce

And logic is often the topic of derision (see below)

Lecture Two slides

Hi again,
here are the lecture notes from the second lecture.
Alex

Powerpoint from first lecture

Hi,
here are the powerpoint slides from the first lecture.

Welcome

Hi.
Last week I gave you a general outline of the module and an idea of what you should expect from this module. I also talked about what I expect from you.
I really hope that you'll enjoy this module and find it useful later on when you study business or another social science subject. If you have any questions about this module please ask - I'm happy to help.
In the lecture this week we are going to look at defining logic and discussing what logic will (and won't) help you to do.
I've started collecting links from the web to provide you with explanations and exercises to help you understand and practice some of the main points I cover in the lectures. In the seminars we will be mainly doing practical activities to help you master the basic ideas in logic.
Here are some logic websites to get you started:
Test your own logic
Logic Self-Taught: A Workbook
Introducing Logic
Basic Exercises in Logic
Essential Logic: Basic Reasoning Skills for the 21st Century
Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate
Why Study logic?

Look on the links section on the left of this page for new links to logic sites.
Alex