Course Schedule

Week 1
Class #1
-Check. Check One. Sibilance (intro to class; no reading)
-Doing Philosophy & Intro to Arguments(no reading)

Class #2
-Some Logic | Types of Arguments (pages 4—11, 37—45)
-Knowledge | What is Knowledge? (pages 50—53)

Week 2
Class #3
-Knowledge | Descartes vs. Skepticism (pages 58—71)
-Knowledge | Rationalism: Plato (pages 71—82)
(Reading Response #1 due)

Class #4
-QUIZ; Knowledge | Empiricism: Locke (pages 88—96)
-Knowledge | Empiricism: Hume (pages 104—113)

Week 3
Class #5
-Does God Exist? | Aquinas & The Cosmological Arg (pages 321—332)
-Does God Exist? | Taylor & The Cosmological Argument (pages 333—338)
(Reading Response #2 due)

Class #6
-Does God Exist? | Paley & The Design Argument (pages 338—341)
-Does God Exist? | Hume & The Design Argument & Review for Midterm (pages 342—347)

Week 4
Class #7
-MIDTERM
-Does God Exist? | Camus & The Problem of Suffering (pages 366—370)

Class #8
-Does God Exist? | Hick & The Problem of Suffering (pages 370—382)
-Faith & Reason | Pascal (pages 352—357)
(Reading Response #3 due)

Week 5
Class #9
-Catch-up (no new reading)
-Review for Final Exam (no reading)
(Reading Response #4 due)

Class #10
-FINAL EXAM