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intereact!Patrick J. Hurley
Edition: 8
Retail Price (not our price): $99.95
ISBN: 0534584829
ISBN-13: 9780534584825
Publication Date: 2002-07-26
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Product Description
Unsurpassed for its clarity, conciseness, and comprehensiveness, Hurley's market-leading A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC has established itself as the standard for introductory logic texts. Hailed in the first seven editions for an unwavering commitment to lucid, focused, reader-friendly presentations of logic's basic topics, the latest edition of this text raises the bar yet again as it makes unprecedented pedagogical strides with state of the art multimedia technology. As a component of HURLEY'S LOGIC CD-ROM that is bundled free with each copy of the new edition, Hurley's own Learning Logic software, now complete and fully revised for this edition of the text, offers teachers and students of logic an extraordinary tool for engaging logic's basic concepts. Designed around the idea that students learn at least as effectively from aural communication as from visual, Learning Logic contains over 11,000 audio files that, when combined with animations, present the central concepts of logic in an unprecedented fashion. These concepts are reinforced through thousands of new interactive practice problems that give audio and visual feedback for both correct and incorrect answers. Also delivered on HURLEY'S LOGIC CD-ROM is a fully revised, more easily navigable version of Logic Coach, a tool that enables students interactively to solve virtually every exercise set in the text. Rounded out with a revolutionary online course management and testing engine developed by the Wadsworth Group and a book-specific Web site that features student quizzing and interactive tutorials on Venn diagrams and truth tables, Hurley's A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC, Eighth Edition is not only the most logically sound choice that a professor could make for his or her logic course, but the most "technologically" sound choice as well.
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5
1) Thank you for Refund Help [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I was in the process of ordering a book for my college class and learned after ordering the book, that is was the wrong edition. I quickly emailed this company and they were quick to respond and refund my order. I want to say thank you for the quickness and helpfulness. I rate this company five stars.2) It contains what you need to know to be a logical person [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Logic is something that all humans believe they practice, but few actually do it with regularity. Sometimes it is inconvenient to be logical, but the vast majority of the time it is due to a failure to understand what the rules of logic are. This book, designed to be a text for a college level course in logic, contains what you will need to be a logical person. The material is for a logic course taught more in a philosophical vein rather than in the mathematical format. The chapter headings are:*) Basic concepts*) Language: Meaning and definition*) Informal fallacies*) Categorical propositions*) Categorical syllogisms*) Propositional logic*) Natural deduction in propositional logic*) Predicate logic*) Induction The exposition is conversational in tone and verbal in presentation. There are few formulas in the early chapters and there are a large number of problems at the ends of the sections. Most of the problems are textual in nature, and solutions to many of them are included in an appendix. This book is a sound choice as a textbook in a course in basic logic; I found some of the examples used in the later chapters of value when talking about predicates in my course on the theory of computation.3) Fairly understandable, but the concepts are pointlesss [Rating: 3 out of 5]
...at least that's my own opinion. I still don't understand the point of turning sentences into tilde's, horseshoes and triple bars in order to figure out if it makes sense! But the book is easy enough to read. And the CD Rom is extremely helpful in the process. I got an A in the class, and mostly depended on the CS Rom.4) A concise Intro t Logic [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Very specific definitions and a good text for review of a systematic approach to learning logic.5) Great book for intro to logic [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Easy to follow. Great when one does the excersizes. Book + Good teacher = success!