LESSONS / READINGS

 

Week 1. Introduction 

Week 2. Ethics

Plato Euthyphro

Week 3. Skepticism

Rene Descartes Meditations 1 and 2

Week 4. Knowledge 

Edmund Gettier "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?"

Week 5. The Ethics of Belief. 

William Clifford "The Ethics of Belief"  

William James "The Will to Believe"

Week 6. Causation and Explanation

David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Section vii)

Week 7. The Mind-Body Problem

Rene Descartes Sixth Meditation

Week 8. The Problem of Evil

Mackie, “Evil andOmnipotence”       

Week 9. Arguments for the Existence of God  

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica 1.2.3

Week 10. The Existence of God (continued)

William Paley, The Watch and the Watchmaker

Week 11. The Nature of God

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica 1.3

Week 12.Free Choice 

Robert Kane, A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will (Chapter 1)