With 65-75 logic students in my logic classes at The Heights every year, it’s perfectly normal to have one or more absences every day of class. This year, I’m going to try something new: using slides in class, and posting those slides on this site after class so that any student who missed class can “get the notes” from me instead of from the knucklehead who normally sits beside him in class. This will also be useful for students who find that they need to go back and review a topic they didn’t really understand on the first time through.

In fact, to make this really useful, I’m going to record a voiceover for each of the slide decks, and post the whole thing as a video, so you can see the notes and hear me explain them at the same time. I’ll probably go faster than I do in class, so you’ll probably need to use the “pause” button pretty aggressively if you want to get everything down in your notes. But if you just need to brush up on something, the quicker pace will presumably be a big plus.

Each lecture will be clearly numbered with the same number I’ve used for the corresponding section in The Reasonable Person: Traditional Logic for Modern Life, which is, as nearly all readers of these words will know by now, available at Amazon.com.

As the Heights community knows, we are on an A/B schedule for philosophy and religion, so it takes two school days to get through all four sections. I don’t want to post the lectures in advance, so I’m going to make them available after I’ve taught all four sections once. Expect a new post here two or three times per week.