Syllabus - Course Schedule
What is Philosophy?
January 17th - 27th: Apology by Plato
What Do We Know?
January 29th - February 3rd: Meditations 1 and 2 by Rene Descartes
February 5th - 10th: A Skeptic's Manifesto by Michael Shermer
February 12th - 17th: Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? by Edmund Gettier
Do We Have Free Will?
February 19th - 24th: Determinism by Richard Taylor
February 26th - March 3rd: Compatibilism by W. T. Stace
Is There an Enduring Self?
March 5th - 10th: A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality by John Perry
First Essay Due
March 12th - 17th
Spring Break
March 19th - 23rd
What is the Mind?
March 26th - 31st: A Critique of Dualism by Paul Churchland
April 2nd - 7th: Minds, Brains, and Programs by John Searle
Does God Exist?
April 9th - 14th: Religious Experience and Religious Belief by William Alston
April 16th - 21st: The Five Ways by Thomas Aquinas
April 23rd - 28th: Molecular Machines by Michael Behe
April 30th - May 5th: Allowing for Evil by John Hick
What is Moral?
May 7th - 12th: Relativism by Allen Wood
Second Essay Due
May 14th - 24th (Thursday)