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

W, 9/4: Course Introduction
F, 9/6: Introduction, 1-13

Mind, Body, and Death
M, 9/9: George Graham, "Socrates and the Soul of Death," 15-38
W, 9/11: Plato, "Phaedo," 38-41
F, 9/13: Thomas Nagel, "Death," 41-48

Death and the Nature of the Soul
M, 9/16: Film, "The Sixth Sense"
W, 9/18: Film, "The Sixth Sense"
F, 9/20: Film, "The Sixth Sense"

M, 9/23: St. Gregory, selections from Dialogues, handout
    Peter Geach, "What Must Be True Of Me If I Survive My Death?" reserve reading
    In-class discussion of film

The Question of God
W, 9/25: Gregory Pence, "Aquinas and the Rationality of Belief in God," 157-68 only
F, 9/27: Thomas Aquinas, "Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God," 177-182

M, 9/30: William Paley, "The Evidence of Design," 182-89
W, 10/2: Blaise Pascal, "Pascal’s Wager," handout

The Problem of Evil
F, 10/4: Pence, 168-174

M, 10/7: Ron Rosenbaum, "Degrees of Evil," reserve reading
    Seneca, "On Providence," handout

Free Will
W, 10/9: George Graham and Harold Kincaid, "Sartre on Being Free," 81-105|
F, 10/11: Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness," 105-117

M, 10/14: No Classes: Native American Day
W, 10/16: Robert Kane, "Free Will: The Elusive Ideal," 130-153 (skim)
F, 10/18: Simon Blackburn, "Free Will," 81-99 (on reserve in BHSU Library)

M, 10/21: Simon Blackburn, "Free Will," 100-119 (on reserve in BHSU Library)
   Short Paper One Due
W, 10/23: Review
F, 10/25: Midterm Examination