F, 1/12: Course Introduction

M, 1/15: No Classes
W, 1/17: Introduction, 1-13

Mind, Body, and Death
F, 1/19: George Graham, "Socrates and the Soul of Death," 15-38

M, 1/22: Plato, "Phaedo," 38-41
Thomas Nagel, "Death," 41-48
W, 1/24: Jerry A. Fodor, "The Mind-Body Problem," 63-77

Death and the Nature of the Soul
F, 1/26: Film, "The Sixth Sense"

M, 1/29: Film, "The Sixth Sense"
W, 1/31: Film, "The Sixth Sense"
F, 2/2: In-class discussion of the film as related to course materials

The Question of God
M, 2/5: Gregory Pence, "Aquinas and the Rationality of Belief in God," 157-68 only
W, 2/7: Thomas Aquinas, "Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God," 177-182
F, 2/9: William L. Rowe, "The Cosmological Argument," 199-211

M, 2/12: Blaise Pascal, "Pascal's Wager," handout

The Problem of Evil
W, 2/14: Pence, 168-174
F, 2/16: Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Why Does God Permit Evil?" 225-233

M, 2/19: No Classes

Free Will
W, 2/21: George Graham and Harold Kincaid, "Sartre on Being Free," 81-105
F, 2/23: Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness," 105-117

M, 2/26: Robert Kane, "Free Will: The Elusive Ideal," 130-153 (skim)
W, 2/28: Simon Blackburn, "Free Will," 81-99 (on reserve in BHSU Library)
F, 3/2: Simon Blackburn, "Free Will," 100-119 (on reserve in BHSU Library)
Short Paper One Due

M, 3/5-3/9: No Classes: Spring Break

M, 3/12: Review
W, 3/14: Midterm Examination