Online resources for this
class include:
PHI3700 Syllabus
The current CLASS POLICIES
AND DETAILS document.
A document, ESSENTIAL
PHILOSOPHICAL TOOLS, that I've developed for students in my undergraduate
classes covering a variety of basic points on argumentation, common philosophical
terms, and advice on writing philosophy papers. Be sure you read the section on advice on writing philosophy
papers before writing for my class.
This page is updated as time
goes along with PDF copies of handouts, assignments, &c.
Handout 1: Brief overview of Craig's arguments.
Handout 2: Selected from Exercise #1.
Responses
to questions in Exercise #2.
Handout 3: Key Issues for Part One of the Debate
Book.
Handout 4: Brief overview of Sinnott-Armstrong's
arguments.
Handout 5: Selected from Exercise #3.
Handout 6: Introductory Notes on Pascal's Wager.
Handout 7: Final (for now) Notes on the Problem of
Evil.
Handout 8: Further notes on Pascal's Wager and
Morris's defense.
Handout 9: From Exercise 4 on Anselm's ontological
argument.
Handout 10: Notes on two ontological arguments.
Handout 11: Notes on cosmological arguments.
Handout 12: Notes on Swinburne's inductive
cosmological arguments.
Handout 13: Outline notes on teleological arguments
and Hume's Dialogues.
Handout 14: Selections from Exercise 6 on Hume's
Dialogues.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The due dates for the optional paper
and the mandatory 2nd paper have been changed:
Optional Paper
Information: Note that the due
date has changed to 3/25. Also,
the mandatory 2nd paper is now due on 4/22, the last day of class.
Handout 15: Outline notes on Robin Collins' paper,
"God, Design and Fine-Tuning."
Handout 16: Selections from Exercise 7 on miracles,
and two suggested representations of Hume's argument regarding miracles.
Handout 17: Free will and the problem of evil: key issues.
Something fun: Tom the Dancing Bug on the problem of evil.
Last two handouts!
Handout 18: Religious experience and a selection
from Exercise #9.
Handout 19: Overview of points from Hick and Alston
on religious experience.