Formal Logic Curriculum- Secular Suggestions!

[NormaElle]

My daughter will finish up the James Madison Critical Thinking Course in seventh grade. I'd like for her to do formal logic after that, but I'd like a secular curriculum. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks!

[Guest]

Not secular but Christian neutral: Memoria Press

 

I have not used nor looked at it closely but you can see samples on MP's site and call to ask them about it.

[HollyDay]

We used Building Thinking Skills books:  verbal and figural

[CrunchyGirl]

I keep hearing CAP's logic books (Art of Argument, etc.) are secular.

[Farrar]

I keep hearing CAP's logic books (Art of Argument, etc.) are secular.

 

They are definitely not.

[Lori D.]

Don't know of a full formal secular Logic program that would be at a middle/high school level. Below I've copy-pasted ideas from a past thread. Some are supplements, some are full texts.

- "Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery"  (Lipman) -- middle school; logic and philosophy
     read about it: "We're only on chapter 2 but...")
- The Snake and the Fox (Haight) -- high school
- Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language (Gula) -- high school
- Critical Thinking: Problem Solving, Reasoning, Logic, Argument (Harnadek) -- middle/high school; 2 books
- Logic to the Rescue: Adventures in Reason 1 (Langman) -- middle school
- Logic to the Rescue: Castles and Chemistry 2 (Langman) -- middle school
- James Madison Critical Thinking Course -- middle/high school
- Gift of Logic resources -- I have no info on this one
- The Writing Center: Argument -- handout / guide for argument as a form of logic

More ideas and discussion in these past threads:
"Logic text (FREE)"
"Has anyone found a secular logic program?"
"Secular logic"
"Secular logic suggestions?"
"Secular logic - a plan for grade 5 onward?"

Edited August 12, 2018 by Lori D.

[CrunchyGirl]

They are definitely not.

 

Thank you! That's great to know.