Course Schedule

September 3
-Check. Check One. Sibilance (intro to class; no reading)
-Doing Philosophy (no reading)

September 10
-Some Logic | Deductive Arguments (pages 37—45)
-Some Logic | Inductive & Abductive Arguments (pages 4—11)

September 17
-Knowledge | Descartes vs. Skepticism (pages 50-53; 58-71)
-Knowledge | Descartes vs. Skepticism (pages 50-53; 58-71)

September 24
-Knowledge | Rationalism: Plato (pages 71—82)
-Knowledge | Empiricism: Locke (pages 88—96)
(Reading Response #1 due)

October 1
-Knowledge | Empiricism: Hume (pages 104—113)
-QUIZ; Knowledge | Hume Wrap-up

October 8
-Does God Exist? | Aquinas & The Cosmological Arg (pages 321—332)
-Does God Exist? | Taylor & The Cosmological Argument (pages 333—338)

October 15
-Does God Exist? | Ontological Argument (pages 347—352)
-Does God Exist? | Paley & The Design Argument (pages 338—341)
(Reading Response #2 due)

October 22
-Does God Exist? | Hume & The Design Argument (pages 342—347, 382—388)
-Does God Exist? | Problem of Evil Intro & Review for Midterm (pages 366—370)

October 29
-MIDTERM
-Does God Exist? | Hick & The Problem of Evil (pages 370—382)

November 5
-Faith & Reason | Pascal (pages 352—357)
-Intro to Ethics | Plato (pages 396—409)
(Reading Response #3 due)

November 12
-Ethical Relativism | Herodotus & Benedict (pages 411—423)
-Utilitarianism | Intro (pages 450—454) & Mill (pages 457—462)

November 19
-Utilitarianism | Norcross (pages 462—468)
-Deontological Ethics | Kant (pages 468—482)
(Reading Response #4 due)

November 26 – Happy Thanksgiving
THANKSGIVING (no class)


December 3
-Virtue Ethics | Intro (pages 486—494) & Aristotle (pages 495—500)
-Virtue Ethics Wrap-up

December 10
-Catch-up (no new reading)
-Final Exam Review

December 17
FINAL EXAM

(This schedule is tentative and may be changed at the discretion of the instructor.)