(May 19, 2018 at 8:31 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:(May 18, 2018 at 8:41 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Except for philosophy, P-U.
Yeah, yeah... I'm not so naive as to think that requiring a bunch of philosophy courses in college is going to open the minds of millions or anything.
But I've said it before: intro to logic is a philosophy course that ought to be mandatory to all. At my university the only majors that were required to take the course were philosophy and pre-law. Everyone ought to take it in my opinion. Logic is useful in any career. Same thing with ethics. Everyone ought to have to take it.
I believe that philosophy 101 was the only phil course required for a great breadth of students. To me, they would have been better served by taking logic and/or ethics instead. What path in life can one take that doesn't involve at least one of those?
As much as philosophy bores/annoys me (I find much of it to be masturbatory nonsense that's the opposite of interesting), I agree with you. I had to take an intro logic course for my communication degree, and I'm baffled that it wasn't a mandatory course. The entire thing was about understanding the differences between sound arguments and fallacious ones, and was one of the more useful classes I've ever taken.
I also think a course on propaganda and persuasion should be mandatory. It was another required course for me, and in conjunction with intro logic, really helped peel away a lot of the BS we all encounter in media, which is incredibly important in a 24/7, ubiquitous 'information' (I use the term loosely) age.
