Course Schedule

Sept. 2—4: Intro to Class/Arguments
Wednesday Introduction to Class (no reading)
Friday Doing Philosophy (no reading)

September 7—11: Arguments
Monday LABOR DAY (no class)
Wednesday Arguments (RA Chapters 1 and 2)
Friday Types of Arguments (RA 3-5); group work

September 14—18: Arguments
Monday Deductive Arguments (RA Chapters 6)
Wednesday Deductive Arguments (RA Chapters 6); group work
Friday Writing Essays (RA Chapters 7-9)

September 21—25: Arguments
Monday Writing Essays (RA Chapters 7-9); group work
Wednesday Fallacies (RA Chapter 10)
Friday Fallacies & Psychological Impediments (handout); group work

September 28—October 2: Knowledge
Monday QUIZ #1; Intro to Knowledge (no reading)
Wednesday Plato (handout)
Friday Descartes: Meditations One and Two (CWP 482-483, 490-496)

October 5—9: Knowledge
Monday Descartes continued (no reading)
Wednesday Bostrom: “Do We Live in a Computer Simulation?” (handout); group work
Friday Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Sections 2-4 (CWP 761-762, 767-773)

October 12—16: Knowledge/The Existence of God
Monday Hume continued; group work
Wednesday PAPER #1 due; Aquinas: Summa Theologiae Question 2 (CWP 440-441, 450-453)
Friday Aquinas: Summa Theologiae Question 2 (CWP 440-441, 450-453); group work

October 19—23: Existence of God
Monday Anselm: Chapters 2—5 in Proslogian (CWP 411-412, 415-416)
Wednesday Review for Midterm (no reading)
Friday MIDTERM

October 26—30: Existence of God
Monday Gaunilo: Guanilo’s Reply on Behalf of the Fool (CWP 425-427)
Wednesday Anselm & Guanilo (no reading); group work
Friday Hume: Parts II & V in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (CWP 862-867, 873-875)

November 2—7: Existence of God
Monday Hume (continued)
Wednesday Augustine: Books 1, 2, & part of 3 of On Free Choice of the Will (CWP 357-369)
Friday Augustine (continued); group work

November 9—13: Existence of God/Free Will
Monday Hicks (handout)
Wednesday Problem of Evil wrap-up (no reading); group work
Friday Maimonides: The Guide of the Perplexed (CWP 434-439)

November 16—20: Free Will
Monday Aristotle: Book III of On the Soul (CWP 223-227)
Wednesday Hospers (handout)
Friday Free Will wrap-up (no reading); group work

November 23—25: Ethics
Monday Mill: Part of Chapter 2 in Utilitarianism (CWP 1060-1063)
Wednesday Journal due; Kant: First Section in Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (CWP 984-991)
Friday THANKSGIVING BREAK (no class!) (woo?)


November 30—December 4: Ethics
Monday Aristotle: Book III, Chapter 1 in Nicomachean Ethics (CWP 275-277)
Wednesday Aristotle: All of Book II of Nicomachean Ethics (CWP 269-275)
Friday Ethics wrap up (no new reading)

December 7—11: Ethics/Group Presentations
Monday PAPER #2 due; preparation for presentations (no reading)
Wednesday group presentations
Friday group presentations

December 14—18: Review/Final Exam
Monday group presentations
Wednesday review for Final Exam
Friday FINAL EXAM