Course Schedule

Sept. 3—5: Intro to Class/Arguments
Wednesday: Introduction to Class (no reading)
Friday: Doing Philosophy (no reading)

September 8—12: Arguments
Monday: Arguments (RA Chapters 1 and 2)
Wednesday: Types of Arguments (RA Chapters 3-5)
Friday: Types of Arguments (RA 3-5); group work

September 15—19: Arguments
Monday: Deductive Arguments (RA Chapters 6)
Wednesday: Deductive Arguments (RA Chapters 6); group work
Friday: Writing Essays (RA Chapters 7-9)

September 22—26: Arguments
Monday: Writing Essays (RA Chapters 7-9); group work
Wednesday: Fallacies (RA Chapter 10)
Friday: Fallacies & Psychological Impediments (handout); group work

September 29—October 3: Knowledge
Monday: QUIZ #1; Intro to Knowledge (no reading)
Wednesday: Plato (handout)
Friday: Descartes: Meditations One and Two (CWP 482-483, 490-496)

October 6—10: Knowledge
Monday: Bostrom: “Do We Live in a Computer Simulation?” (handout); group work
Wednesday: Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book 1—Book 2, Ch. 1 (CWP 627-633)
Friday: Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Sections 2-4 (CWP 761-762, 767-773)

October 13—17: 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 20—24: Existence of God
Monday: Anselm: Chapters 2—5 in Proslogian (CWP 411-412, 415-416)
Wednesday: Review for Midterm (no reading)
Friday: MIDTERM

October 27—31: 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 3—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 10—14: Existence of God/Free Will
Monday: B.C. Johnson (handout)
Wednesday: Problem of Evil wrap-up (no reading); group work
Friday: Maimonides: The Guide of the Perplexed (CWP 434-439)

November 17—21: Free Will
Monday: Aristotle: Book III of On the Soul (CWP 223-227)
Wednesday: Hospers (handout)
Friday: Journal due; Free Will wrap-up (no reading); group work

November 24—26: Free Will/Ethics
Monday: Mill: Part of Chapter 2 in Utilitarianism (CWP 1060-1063)
Wednesday: Kant: First Section in Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (CWP 984-991)
Friday: THANKSGIVING BREAK (no class!) (woo?)


December 1—5: 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 8—12: Ethics/Group Presentations
Monday: PAPER #2 due; preparation for presentations (no reading)
Wednesday: group presentations
Friday: group presentations

December 15—19: Group Presentations/Review/Final Exam
Monday: group presentations
Wednesday: Review for final exam
Friday: FINAL EXAM