Coordinator: Tracy A. Lupher
Email: lupherta@jmu.edu
Phone: (540) 568-6394
Logic and Reasoning Minor Website
Program Description
Logic and reasoning are central to human inquiry. The minor brings together several disciplines which take logic and reasoning as part of their subject matter, emphasize the core logical elements that are common across disciplines and show how to apply these common logical concepts and tools in different domains.
Minor Requirements
The requirement for a minor in logic and reasoning is 18-19 credits: 12-13 credit hours from a set of core courses and six credit hours from electives.
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| PHIL 250 | Introduction to Symbolic Logic | 3 |
| PHIL 310 | Symbolic Logic | 3 |
| or PHIL 326 | Introduction to Non-Standard Logics |
| 6 |
| 6-7 |
| Calculus I [C3QR] | |
| Discrete Mathematics | |
| |
| Discrete Structures I | |
| Discrete Structures II | |
| 6-7 |
| 6 |
| Artificial Intelligence | |
| Statistical Decision Theory | |
| Symbolic Logic 1 | |
| Logic and Legal Reasoning | |
| Inductive Logic | |
| Introduction to Non-Standard Logics 1 | |
| Philosophy of Physics | |
| Philosophy of Space and Time | |
| Philosophy of Quantum Theory | |
| Philosophy of Science | |
| 6 |
| Total Credits | 18-19 |
