Introduction to Argumentation and Scientific Reasoning, 3 cr

1. Justification: Assertions and grounds

2. Argumentation as a form of justification: types of arguments, types of fallacies

3. Deductive reasoning and its uses in justification

4. Observation, data, statistical inference: inductive reasoning and its uses in justification

5. Causal and hypothetical inference

6. Theoretical virtues and justification