-- Wisdom & Argument -- | 1/11 - 1/25 | |
Pojman, | "What Is Philosophy?" | pp.2-5 |
Pojman, | "How to Read and Write a Philosophy Paper" | pp.637-639 |
Plato, | "Socratic Wisdom" | pp.6-18 |
Lee, | "Identifying and Formulating Arguments" | web |
Pojman, | "Excursus: A Little Bit of Logic" | pp.23-37 |
-- God & Causes -- | 1/27 - 2/3 | |
Edwards, | "A Critique of the Cosmological Argument" | pp.46-55 |
Hume, | "A Critique of the Teleological Argument" | pp.60-67 |
First Examination | 2/8 | |
-- Evil & Faith -- | 2/10 - 2/22 | |
Johnson, | "Why Doesn't God Intervene to Prevent Evil?" | pp.77-82 |
James, | "The Will to Believe" | pp.97-105 |
-- Right & Wrong -- | 2/24 - 3/3 | |
Rachels, | "Morality is not Relative" | pp.375-384 |
Kant, | "The Moral Law" | pp.418-430 |
Lee, | "Kantian Ethical Theory" | web |
Second Examination | 3/8 | |
-- Skepticism & Knowledge -- | 3/10 - 3/24 | |
Descartes, | "Cartesian Doubt and the Search for Foundational Knowledge" | pp.129-135 |
Descartes, | "Dualist Interactionism" [in part] | pp.221-225 |
Hume, | "The Origin of Our Ideas and Skepticism about Causal Reasoning" | pp.157-165 |
-- Mind & Body -- | 3/29 - 4/7 | |
Descartes, | "Dualistic Interactionism" [in part] | pp.225-228 |
Moreland, | "A Contemporary Defense of Dualism" | pp.234-245 |
Churchland, | "On Functionalism and Materialism" | pp.245-260 |
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Third Examination | 4/12 | |
-- Freedom & Determinism -- | 4/14 - 4/19 | |
Stace, | "Compatibilism" | pp.341-347 |
Taylor, | "A Contemporary Defense of Free Will" | pp.356-364 |
-- Life & Happiness -- | 4/21 - 4/26 | |
Epicurus, | "Moderate Hedonism" | pp.517-522 |
Epictetus, | "Stoicism: Enchiridion" | pp.523-532 |
Fourth Examination | 4/28 | |
Universal Makeup Examination | 5/7 | |
This schedule is subject to change.