LEVY SLAYS - if you were good at math in high school or are interested in cognitive science and/or enjoy syntax/linguistics, PLEASE take this class. Some people struggle w logic, while with other people, logic comes really easy to them. So just be prepared for learning a new symbolic language that has a similar logic to math problems but applies this logic through the lens of sentence structures in English. It may be intimidating at first but Levy is a really sweet, kind, and knowledgable professor. Many tutoring sessions held out of class (dont need to go to them but they do help if you have questions!) and open note midterms and finals! Highly recommend taking this w Levy :)))

This guy rules. Favorite class so far at UCLA.

I took this class in Fall 2022. Not everyone has an affinity for logic or quantitative reasoning, but for those interested in taking a logic class, I highly recommend professor Levy. He is a crystal clear lecturer, who is extremely adept at concisely explaining what you need to know while only including just enough peripheral or tangential information to keep the lectures interesting. He is so good at lecturing that I didn't have to read the textbook at all- following along with his lesson and practice problems was more than enough.

The homework took me around 2-4 hours a week and is never outrageously difficult (I only had to go to office hours twice). Exams use the same program and thus format as the homework, and he gave our class practice midterms with the exact same number and format of questions which were more difficult than the actual exam (so you get good practice and know you're prepared for the exam if you can complete the practice exam in a reasonable time).

He is slightly unaccommodating with issues surrounding technology (like if your computer crashes during an exam) and extenuating circumstances (during the Fall 2022 TA strike he converted to live zoom lectures in solidarity with the TAs, but he wouldn't record them so that he would have an audience at 9:00 am), but I would never call him unreasonable (he even let us have a 1 page "cheat sheet" for the exams.

Professor Levy is clearly someone who teaches for the joy of it and he's gotten really good at it. Choose him if you're taking PHILOS 31.