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SYLLABUS

• Professor Rattan's Syllabus for Winter Semester

READINGS

• "The Five Ways", Thomas Aquinas
• Excerpt from Natural Theology, William Paley
• "The Ontological Argument", St. Anselm
• "Free Will and the Problem of Evil", J. L. Mackie
• "Pascal's Wager", Alan Hajek
• Chapters 8 and 9 of Problems from Philosophy, by James Rachels
• Chapter 1 of John Perry's A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
• Chapter 2 of John Perry's A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
• Chapter 3 of John Perry's A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
• "The Mind-Body Problem", William G. Lycan
• "Minds, Brains, and Programs", John Searle
• "Does Morality Depend on Religion?", Ch. 4 of The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels
• "Subjectivism in Ethics", Ch. 3 of The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels
• "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism", Ch. 2 of The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels

NOTES

• The Existence of God
  • The Cosmological Argument
  • The Teleological Argument
  • The Ontological Argument
  • The Problem of Evil
  • Pascal's Wager
• Free Will & Determinism
• Personal Identity & Immortality
• The Nature of the Mind
• The Nature of Morality
  

ASSIGNMENTS

• First Essay Assignment (updated Monday Sep. 21)
  • Turnitin.com
  • How Not To Plagiarize
  • Jim Pryor's Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper
• Second Essay Assignment
  

EXAMS

• Study Questions (last updated Nov. 13)
• Midterm -- Oct. 29