Verna Marina Ehret

Exploring Modern Logic

Philosophy

“Dr. MacGregor is a prolific and gifted scholar and writer. In Exploring Modern Logic: Theory and Applications, he expands his repertoire to demonstrate he is also an extraordinary teacher. Dr. MacGregor is drawing on years of teaching experience to create a text that matches the needs of contemporary students. His writing style is accessible and conversational. The chapters are broken into short readings with practice and homework and move from the most difficult theoretical work to application. I find this particularly useful not only because it develops the foundational skills in logic early but also because it demonstrates an excellent understanding of student abilities. The most difficult elements are early in the semester when the students are most fresh and have the mental bandwidth to focus. They learn they can do hard things. Dr. MacGregor has also thought carefully about teaching this book as a sole logic class in a curriculum, providing students the logic skills they need while structuring the text to match a standard semester with space for quizzes and practice sessions. This is a thoughtfully written and constructed textbook that takes into consideration the dynamics of the modern classroom.”