Class-by-Class Syllabus (subject to change per class announcement)

W, 9/5: Course Introduction
F, 9/7: Introduction, 1-13

Mind, Body, and Death

M, 9/10: George Graham, “Socrates and the Soul of Death,” 15-38
W, 9/12: Plato, “Phaedo,” 38-41
F, 9/14: Thomas Nagel, “Death,” 41-48

Death and the Nature of the Soul

M, 9/17: Film, “The Sixth Sense”
W, 9/19: Film, “The Sixth Sense”
F, 9/21: Film, “The Sixth Sense”

M, 9/24: In-class discussion of the film as related to course materials

The Question of God

W, 9/26: Gregory Pence, “Aquinas and the Rationality of Belief in God,” 157-68 only
F, 9/28: Thomas Aquinas, “Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God,” 177-182

M, 10/1: William Paley, “The Evidence of Design,” 182-89
W, 10/3: Blaise Pascal, “Pascal’s Wager,” handout

The Problem of Evil        

F, 10/5: Pence, 168-174 

M, 10/8: No Classes: Native American Day
W, 10/10: Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Why Does God Permit Evil?” 225-233

Free Will

F, 10/12: George Graham and Harold Kincaid, “Sartre on Being Free,” 81-105

M, 10/15: Jean-Paul Sartre, “Being and Nothingness,” 105-117
W, 10/17: Robert Kane, “Free Will: The Elusive Ideal,” 130-153 (skim)
F, 10/19: Simon Blackburn, “Free Will,” 81-99 (on reserve in BHSU Library)

M, 10/22: Simon Blackburn, “Free Will,” 100-119 (on reserve in BHSU Library)
               Short Paper One Due
W, 10/24: Review
F, 10/26: Midterm Examination