| The Skeptical Challenge | ||
| Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy": Meditations I & II | Sep.2, 7 | |
| *Barry Stroud, "Philosophical Skepticism and Everyday Life" *J.L. Austin, "Other Minds" |
Sep.9, 14 | |
| *David Lewis, "Elusive Knowledge" | Sep.16 | |
| *Paul Boghossian, manuscript on objectivity | Sep. 21, 23 | |
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The Existence of God and the Problem of Evil | |
| St. Anselm, "The Ontological Argument" St. Thomas Aquinas, "The Existence of God" |
Sep.28 | |
| *William Paley, "The Watch and the Watchmaker" (focus in Chapter One, & beginning of Chapter Three) Hume, "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion": Parts II & III |
Sep.30 | |
| *Roger White, "Does Life's Existence Call for an Explanation?" |
Oct. 5 | |
| Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy": Meditation IV Mackie, "Evil and Omnipotence" *Peter Van Inwagen, "The Magnitude, Duration and Distribution of Evil : A Theodicy" |
Oct. 7, 12 | |
| Mid-Term | Oct. 14 | |
| Free Will | ||
| Campbell, "Has the Self 'Free Will'?" |
Oct. 21 | |
| Hume, "Of Liberty and Necessity" | Oct. 26, 28 | |
| Frankfurt, "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person" | Nov. 2 | |
| Mind and Body | ||
| Nagel "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" | Nov.4 | |
| Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs" | Nov.9 | |
| Jackson, "What Mary Didn't Know" Lewis, "Knowing What It's Like" |
Nov.11, 16 | |
| Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy": Meditation VI | Nov.18 | |
| *Kripke, "Naming and Necessity": Lecture 3 | Nov.23, 30 | |
| Final | per College schedule |
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