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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 classes. Hailed in the first eight editions for an unwavering commitment to lucid, focused, reader-friendly presentations of logic's basic topics, the latest edition also continues to expand upon Hurley's tradition of technological excellence with the introduction of vMentor and iLrn Logic. These two technologies help you manage the workload of teaching logic by providing your students with a live, online logic tutoring service and you with an online system that automates homework and test grading. In addition, Hurley's outstanding LEARNING LOGIC-an interactive, audio-visual recasting of the entire text-remains a free supplement with each copy of the text. Rounded out with a Book Companion Website that features student quizzing and interactive tutorials on Venn diagrams and truth tables, Hurley's A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC, Ninth 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.
- Sales Rank: #87153 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Wadsworth Publishing
- Published on: 2005-02-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.22" h x 7.42" w x 9.52" l, 2.62 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 656 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"Hurley has satisfied my goals for logic classes for a number of years. I will continue to use it. I believe that its greatest strength is that it is primarily directed toward students, rather than logicians."
"The book has gotten steadily better. Note: it was a good book to begin with."
"I have compared Hurley's book to several texts and have found it to be by far the best."
"Overall the book accomplishes MY goals and I have no plans to make a change."
"Several times a semester I ask students for anonymous written one-minute feedback on what they would keep, modify or trash about the course. While there are always a few who trash me, their teaching assistant, the acoustics in the lecture hall, the CD, logic, probability, general education or proofs, it has been several years since anyone has proposed relegating the text to the flames."
About the Author
Patrick Hurley was born in Spokane, Washington in 1942. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics (with a Physics minor) from Gonzaga University in 1964 and his Ph.D. in philosophy of science with an emphasis in history of philosophy from Saint Louis University in 1973. In 1972 he began teaching at the University of San Diego, where his courses have included logic, philosophy of science, metaphysics, process philosophy, and legal ethics. In 1987 he received his J.D. from the University of San Diego and he is currently a member of the California Bar Association. He retired from teaching in 2008, but continues his research and writing. His interests include music, art, opera, environmental issues, fishing, and skiing.
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61 of 67 people found the following review helpful.
I would buy the software that comes with it again, but not the book
By Andrew T. Fyfe
I teach introduction to logic at a local community college and I used this text for my class--once. I will not again. It is overpriced, wordy, and badly structured. However, my biggest problem was that the questions the book would ask my students to answer in the homework would often (1) rely on knowledge not taught in the chapter, (2) had the wrong answer in the answer key, or (3) asked questions with many right answers but listed only one as right in the answer key.
Furthermore, the online [...] homework was way too advanced for my students to work with. It requires long load-times, Java scripts, etc. The ilrn.com site also has quite a few *kinks* to work out (automatic grading is often wrong). Unless you have a class full of students with good computers, good internet connections, and some basic internet knowledge (e.g. how to install Java into their browser); the online homework will be more trouble then it's worth. If the *kinks* are worked out and ilrn.com is programmed to require less of the computers (get rid of the Java!) then this has the potential to be a great service. Maybe, in the 13th or 15th edition this will be a good addition to the (otherwise poor) book.
I will agree with another reviewer that the "CD is unnecessary." The CD covers the same material as the book, and so either the book or the CD is unnecessary. However, the book is miserable while the CD is excellent. If anything is unnecessary, it is the book. The only saving grace for Hurley is the EXCELLENT CD-rom program that came along with 9th edition of his book. This is a 5-star computer program for learning logic and I would use it again in teaching my classes if the CD could be purchased separately.
Since I also don't like the Copi and Cohen Intro to Logic text, it looks like spring quarter I am going to try using the Henry Gensler "Introduction to Logic." The software you get with the Gensler book doesn't look anywhere near as promising as what comes with the Hurley text, but at least the Gensler text looks like a good book.
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REVIEW UPDATE: It has been five years since I wrote this original review and while I had claimed that I would never use Hurley again, a logic course fell into my lap at the last minute and Hurley's 11th edition had already been assigned to the students. So, having just taught another logic course using the Hurley text, I thought I might revisit my thoughts on the text:
* The 11th edition of the text isn't very different from the 9th edition (or from any other edition I suspect). A few different chapters at the end about legal and moral reasoning (which I didn't look at and can't review), but the core parts of the text covering arguments, fallacies, categorical/propositional/predicate logic all remain nearly unchanged.
* Even if you buy the most recent edition of the text, it does not automatically come with access to the online Aplia assignment/course software. Depending on if you are buying the textbook alone (about $80) or the textbook bundled with Aplia (about $160), Aplia access costs an additional $80 on top of the book's cost. However, if you just spend $80 to buy Aplia access by itself, then you do get access to an electronic copy of the most recent version of the text. So if you need the text for a class and the class involves Aplia, then just buy an Aplia access code stand-alone rather than a physical copy of the text. Or, if you really want a physical copy of the text, then just buy a cheap used 10th or 9th edition text.
* Aplia continues to disappoint. If memory serves, while the online assignment/course software (then called "ilrn.com" but now "Aplia") has improved since the last time I used it to teach a class (2006), it still has a long way to go. I had a lot of trouble creating my own assignments out of the key bank and eventually gave up on doing so, the problems in the key bank are rarely creative or insightful but often tricky in ways that are not related to an understanding of logic, many of the problems are graded using incorrect answers (I have the fallacy chapter in mind specifically), the pre-made proof construction assignments in Aplia swing radically from too easy to too hard, the options for the instructor in Aplia are too restrictive (e.g. I would like to offer my students an unlimited number of tries at a proof, not a maximum of 3), and many more problems I see no reason to continue to list. All I mean to say that while there have been improvements in Aplia and while there are several things I like about Aplia, I still firmly believe that Aplia is a poor choice as a teaching tool. Furthermore, now there is a better option I can tell you about! If you are a logic instructor and you want a computer program that gives and grades assignments, don't use Hurley/Aplia. Instead, let me recommend Barker-Plummer, Barwise, and Etchemendy's "Language, Proof and Logic". LPL is a far superior book/software *if* what you want to do is teach a class through a computer program. I used the first edition of LPL in 2007 and it was great. However, LPL is not for everyone. The book really only works in conjunction with the online LPL assignment/grading software and isn't suited for standalone use. Also note that LPL just covers propositional and predicate logic, LPL has little to nothing on informal logic, fallacies, Venn Diagrams, categorical logic, and so on. Myself, I am not sure if I will use LPL as a text again, but only because I don't know if I like teaching a course that is so computerized. However, if you do aim to teach a course using an assignment/grading computer program, LPL does this far better than Hurley/Aplia.
* In my original review I also mentioned that I don't like the Copi and Cohen text. Having re-skimmed the Copi and Cohen text, it might not be as bad as the Hurely text. I still don't like either the Copi and Cohen text or the Hurely text, but gun to my head I might have to pick Copi and Cohen over Hurely.
* In my original review I also mentioned my plan try Henry Gensler's "Introduction to Logic." A student stole my copy of the text and I only used it once in 2006, but I liked it. I don't remember it very well, but I do remember liking the text when I used it. The computer software with Gensler's text was very primitive but helpful. Gensler's text didn't have online assignment/grading software to go with it, but if that's what you want then let me again recommend LPL as a textbook. One distinctive thing about Gensler's text is that it includes a number of chapters on further areas of logic such as modal logic, doxastic logic, deontic logic, etc. I used the chapter on modal logic when I used Gensler's text and students picked it up very well after having learned predicate logic and how to deal with quantifiers. I might use Gensler again in the future if I decide to teach a non-computerized logic course. However, I would need to re-read it before deciding. So let me tentatively suggest instructors take a look at Gensler's text if you aim to teach a non-computerized logic course. I don't remember it well enough to give it a full recommendation and I don't own a copy anymore to re-read.
* Since writing my review, I've used Richard Feldman's "Reason & Argument" (2nd Ed) several times to teach an informal logic course. It does contain a few chapters on formal logic, but Feldman's text is clearly intended for a critical thinking, practical reasoning, or informal logic course. It is absolutely great. I only mention it since Hurely's logic text does contain a good amount of material on informal logic (fallacies, etc.) and I just wanted to point out a different text that does a far far better job covering similar material. Next fall I am going to teach a half-informal logic/half-formal logic course and I am thinking I might use Feldman for the first half of that course and then some other strictly formal-logic textbook for the second half of the course (like LPL or the "Learning Logic 6.0 CD-rom").
* In my original review I sang the praises of the "Learning Logic" disk that came free with the Hurley textbook. I said then: "This is a 5-star computer program for learning logic and I would use it again in teaching my classes if the CD could be purchased separately." Well that disk no longer comes free with the textbook, but can now be purchased separately for $30 ([...] I am strongly considering using Feldman's informal logic textbook and the Hurley logic CD together for my next course. The disk covers the exact same material as the book, but is a far better teaching tool than the Hurley text. The "Learning Logic" disk is not assignment/grading software like Aplia, rather it is a logic textbook come alive as a semi-interactive computer program.
Overall: If you are already using the Hurley text and Aplia, then more power to you. Let me just recommend that you check out Hurley's "Learning Logic" CD for use in your course. I suspect your students will get a lot more out of the CD then the text. But if you haven't used the Hurley text but are only considering it, I advise against your adopting the Hurley text for your courses.
64 of 75 people found the following review helpful.
Good book for Academic instruction
By berklaw
First, I am familar with the 6th edition, so my comments concern that edition. I have both learned from (as a student) and taught from (as an instructor) this book. The book's strength is in formal or deductive logic and not informal or inductive logic. (Although it covers inductive logic and critical thinking). This book should not be used by someone who is looking just to argue better, but is much more suited to an academic setting at the level of a senior in high school or college freshman/sophmore. I am not saying that it is a hard read or too technical, as a matter of fact, it is quite basic, but it is too dry for the average reader and you would simply not pick up the information from simply reading it; you would have to work the problems and interact with others who are also reading the book.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Just Great
By David Milliern
Hurley’s logic is simply the best first-order logic book I have encounter, to date. Potential buyers should definitely get the tenth edition onward, or at least the ninth edition, otherwise, the book is quite different and the formatting, for one, is considerably poorer. Not only is the arrangement of the book aesthetically appealing and easy to work with, the formatting makes for easy learning. I did have an outstanding professor, when I took my logic course, but I definitely believe this book could be used without an instructor. About a year later, after having read the book, I used it again for preparation for a metalogic course, and it worked for me just as well as when I had the first time, with an instructor.
The book covers pretty much everything I have seen covered in an undergraduate first-order logic course. The book begins with informal fallacies, works through a great deal of syllogistic and medieval logic, and moves on up to natural deduction, and so on. The book, I think, tries to adhere to a chronology of development of logic, as it was in history, but, where efficacious, Hurley has placed the most pertinent ideas together for maximized umph. The problems help the reader develop simpler skills first, before moving on to harder ones in that section. In this respect, the book is very well organized, each problem eliciting for one more new skill, once the previous one has been answered. At least half of the answers are in the back of the book, so, again, and instructor is not absolutely necessary. This book, also, does not take long to go through, which is a feat for a technical book of this kind. An adept, with some dedication, can make it through this book in a month’s time, I believe, and I feel that most students of average intelligence will be able to assimilate the vast majority of its content in four months’ time (i.e., a semester’s study).
Recommended to all, and I think any high-schooler (or anyone familiar with the abstract concept of a “variable,” perhaps middle-schoolers) upward would find tremendous value in this text. If you choose to read one book on logic, I think this would be the one I recommend.
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