The Unofficial LogicCoach Page

 

Official Sites

Wadsworth Publishing Company is now Cengage Publishing—same sites; same excellent support.

LogicCoach for Hurley	The Official LogicCoach H10 Page is maintained by the program's distributor Cengage Publishing.
LogicCoach for Hausman/Kahane/Tidman	The Official LogicCoach HKT Page is maintained by the program's distributor Cengage Publishing.

 

Unofficial Downloads

            General Information

For Hurley Students

            LogicCoach 10

            LogicCoach 9

For Hausman/Kahane/Tidman Students

            LogicCoach HKT

For Instructors

            Entrance Requires a Password

 

General Information

The program was developed by Professor Nelson Pole of the Philosophy Department at Cleveland State University who also maintains this site.

LogicCoach consists of an extensive series of computer modules that cover virtually all topics taught in a college course in logic including most aspects of:

Nonformal and Informal logic

• Basic Vocabulary
• Argument Diagrams
• Definitions
• Fallacies
• Analogies
• Mill's Methods
• Probability

Traditional Logic (both with and without existential import)

• Categorical Propositions
• Standardization
• Syllogisms
• Enthymemes
• Sorites
• Venn Diagrams

Symbolic Logic

• Translation: English to Symbols
• Translation: Symbols to English
• Logical Form
• Truth Tables
• Indirect Truth Tables
• Quantification
• Identity
• Proofs
• Trees

Features

LogicCoach 9 and 10 have significant help features for proofs.

• On the step side, put a * while on the citation side the rule and premise numbers, LogicCoach will build the wff for you!
• On the citation side, put a * and premise numbers while on the step side the wff, LogicCoach will build the citation for you!
• On the both sides, put a * , LogicCoach will give you a hint about a successful strategy for the proof!

For all of these, the advice/fill-in will occur when you check your answer.

The design of the program on all exercise screens is to simulate, as closely as possible, the sort of work that a student does when using paper and pencil.

 

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LogicCoach 10

All the great features of LogicCoach 9 plus all the terrific new exercises found in the tenth edition of Patrick Hurley’s A Concise Introduction to Logic.  LogicCoach is the most complete computer access to the Hurley exercises and the evaluation of the work done to answer them.  No other program for the Hurley text does anywhere near as much!

Latest WINDOWS version (dated 07/07/2009). The Windows version starts a new number series, 6.1.x.

Security Warnings:

• To function properly in VISTA, LogicCoach needs to be installed under full administrator rights.  Even if you log on that way, in Vista you do NOT really have them.  Run the install program by RIGHT clicking on its icon and chose "Run as administrator" from the drop down menu.
• For security reasons, it is best to create and store your record in your My Documents folder.  When you return as a registered user then reopen the same record file.  (The latest versions of LogicCoach 10 are set up to open My Documents for you.)  Finally, to share this record with your instructor, attach the file to an email message that is addressed to your instructor.
• Do not keep records that are to be shared in the same folder as the LogicCoach application itself nor keep them anywhere else within the Programs folder.

Mac OS users: After downloading the setup program to your desktop, double-click on it.  The install application has a shortcut to facilitate moving the LogicCoach folder to your applications folder.  Feel free to move it to any other convenient location of your choice.  However, you MUST keep the data folder in the same folder with LogicCoach.

Latest MAC version (dated 07/07/2009).

The MAC version starts a new number series, 5.x.

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LogicCoach 9

Windows users: After downloading the setup program, run the application. The setup program will guide you through the process of installing LogicCoach on your hard drive.

Latest WINDOWS version (dated 11/09/2007). The Windows version starts a new number series, 5.x.

VISTA warnings:

• To function properly, LogicCoach needs to be installed under full administrator rights.  Even if you log on that way, in Vista you do NOT really have them.  Run the install program by RIGHT clicking on its icon and chose "Run as administrator" from the drop down menu.
• Furthermore, the Vista security model makes it difficult to send complete records to your instructor.  One work around is to create and keep your records entirely within your My Documents folder.  When you return as a registered user then reopen the same record file.  Finally, to share this record with your instructor, attach the file on the removable media to an email message that is addressed to your instructor.
• Do not keep records that are to be shared in the same folder as the LogicCoach application itself nor keep them anywhere else within the Programs folder.

Mac OS users: After downloading the setup program to your desktop, double-click on it.  The install application has a shortcut to facilitate moving the LogicCoach folder to your applications folder.  Feel free to move it to any other convenient location of your choice.  However, you MUST keep the data folder in the same folder with LogicCoach.

Latest MAC PPC version (dated 11/13/2007).

Latest MAC Intel version (dated 11/13/2007).

The MAC version starts a new number series, 3.x.

 

For users of the 8th edition of the Hurley Text, the last WINDOWS version of LogicCoach is still available (dated 9/09/2004).

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LogicCoach for Hausman/Kahane/Tidman

Features

LogicCoach HKT has significant help features for proofs.

• On the step side, put a * while on the citation side the rule and premise numbers, LogicCoach will build the wff for you!

The advice/fill-in will occur when you check your answer.

The design of the program on all exercise screens is to simulate, as closely as possible, the sort of work that a student does when using paper and pencil.

LogicCoach HKT

LogicCoach III updated for the eleventh edition of Alan Hausman, Howard Kahane and Paul Tidman’s Logic and Philosophy.  LogicCoach provides its users with access to most of the exercises in the text and evaluates the work done to answer them.

Latest WINDOWS version (dated 05/24/2009). The Windows version starts a new number series, 2.x.

Security Warnings:

• To function properly in VISTA, LogicCoach needs to be installed under full administrator rights.  Even if you log on that way, in Vista you do NOT really have them.  Run the install program by RIGHT clicking on its icon and chose "Run as administrator" from the drop down menu.
• For security reasons, it is best to create and store your record in your My Documents folder.  When you return as a registered user then reopen the same record file.  (LogicCoach is set up to open My Documents for you.)  Finally, to share this record with your instructor, attach the file to an email message that is addressed to your instructor.
• Do not keep records that are to be shared in the same folder as the LogicCoach application itself nor keep them anywhere else within the Programs folder.

Mac OS users: After downloading the setup program to your desktop, double-click on it.  The install application has a shortcut to facilitate moving the LogicCoach folder to your applications folder.  Feel free to move it to any other convenient location of your choice.  However, you MUST keep the data folder in the same folder with LogicCoach.

Latest MAC version (dated 05/24/2009).

 

LogicCoach III for the 9th edition of the Tidman/Kahane Text is still available.

Last WINDOWS version (dated 3/31/2003)

Last OSX MAC version (dated 9/17/2003--does not work with OSX 10.4 or later)

Last Classic MAC version (dated 9/17/2003)

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This page last modified Tuesday, July 07, 2009