Logic

Anthony Andres is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Christendom College. He received his B.A. in Liberal Arts at Thomas Aquinas College in 1987 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in 1993. At Christendom College he has taught Introduction to Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics, Medieval Philosophy, Euclidean Geometry, and Introduction to Scientific Thought. In The Aquinas Review he has published articles on "The Place of Conversion in Aristotle's Organon" and "St. Thomas on the Argument of the Proslogion". He has also published and lectured on the topic of evolution. He wrote his dissertation on Aristotelian Logic and is currently working on a book in logic, tentatively titled Reading Aristotle's Organon.

Course Number 032
12 lectures.

  1. What is Logic?
  2. The Universal and the Predicables
  3. The Categories
  4. Opposition and Order
  5. Analogy and the Statement
  6. The Kinds of Statements and Relations of Opposition Between Them
  7. The Third Part of Logic and the Syllogism
  8. The Principles and Varieties of Syllogism
  9. Demonstration
  10. Dialectic
  11. Sophistic Reasoning
  12. Rhetoric and Poetics



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