Sunday, February 11, 2007

Revised Schedule (Tuesdays/Thursdays)

Hey, Tuesdays/Thursdays classes! We're switching up schedules -- adding a section on Rationalism & Empiricism and a section on Ethics at the end. Here's the new schedule:

February 13—15
Tuesday: Epistemology | Hume & Induction (pages 104—113)
Thursday: QUIZ; Epistemology | Hume Wrap-up & Intro to Rationalism vs. Empiricism

February 20—22
Tuesday: Epistemology | Rationalism: Plato (pages 71—82)
Thursday: Epistemology | Empiricism: Locke (pages 88—96)

February 27—March 1
Tuesday: Does God Exist? | Aquinas & The Cosmological Arg (pages 306—316)
Thursday: Does God Exist? | Taylor & The Cosmological Argument (pages 317—322)

March 6—8
SPRING BREAK!

March 13—15
Tuesday: Does God Exist? | Ontological Argument (pages 337—342)
Thursday: Does God Exist? | Paley & The Design Argument (pages 322—325)
(Reading Response #2 due)

March 20—March 22
Tuesday: Does God Exist? | Hume & The Design Argument (pages 326—337)
Thursday: Does God Exist? | Design Arg Wrap-up & Review for Midterm

March 27—March 29
Tuesday: MIDTERM
Thursday: Does God Exist? | Camus & The Problem of Evil (pages 356—360)

April 3—5
Tuesday: Does God Exist? | Hick & The Problem of Evil (pages 360—372)
Thursday: Faith & Reason | Pascal (pages 342—347)
(Reading Response #3 due)

April 10—12
Tuesday: Intro to Ethics | Plato (pages 400—402 & 408—415)
Thursday: Ethical Relativism | Herodotus & Benedict (pages 415—427)

April 17—19
Tuesday: Utilitarianism | Intro (pages 454—458) & Mill (pages 461—466)
Thursday: Utilitarianism | Norcross (pages 466—472)
(Reading Response #4 due)

April 24—26
Tuesday: Deontological Ethics | Kant (pages 472-484)
Thursday: Deontological Ethics Wrap-up; Intro to Virtue Ethics (pages 490—498)

May 1—3
Tuesday: Virtue Ethics | Aristotle (pages 490-504)
Thursday: Virtue Ethics Wrap-up & Final Exam Review

May 8
Tuesday: FINAL EXAM

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