Class-by-Class Syllabus (subject to change per class announcement)
Materials listed as "on reserve" are in a binder called "Miscellaneous Articles"
in the library
W, 9/3: Course Introduction
F, 9/5: Introduction, 1-13
Mind, Body, and Death
M, 9/8: George Graham, "Socrates and the Soul of Death," 15-38
W, 9/10: Plato, "Phaedo," 38-41
F, 9/12: Thomas Nagel, "Death," 41-48
Death and the Nature of the Soul
M, 9/15: Film, "The Sixth Sense"
W, 9/17: Film, "The Sixth Sense"
F, 9/19: Film, "The Sixth Sense"
St. Gregory, selections from Dialogues, handout
In-class discussion of film
The Question of God
M, 9/22: Gregory Pence, "Aquinas and the Rationality of Belief in God,"
157-68 only
W, 9/24: Thomas Aquinas, "Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God," 177-182
F, 9/26: William Paley, "The Evidence of Design," 182-89
M, 9/29: Blaise Pascal, "Pascal’s Wager," handout
The Problem of Evil
W, 10/1: Pence, 168-174
F, 10/3: Ron Rosenbaum, "Degrees of Evil," reserve reading
Seneca, "On Providence," handout
Free Will
M, 10/6: George Graham and Harold Kincaid, "Sartre on Being Free," 81-105
W, 10/8: Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness," 105-117
F, 10/10: Robert Kane, "Free Will: The Elusive Ideal," 130-153 (skim)
M, 10/13: No Classes: Native American Day
W, 10/15: Simon Blackburn, "Free Will," 81-119 (on reserve in BHSU Library)
Short Paper One Due
F, 10/17: Review
M, 10/20: Midterm Examination