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

M, 6/10: Course Introduction
    Introduction, 1-13

Mind, Body, and Death
T, 6/11: George Graham, "Socrates and the Soul of Death," 15-38
    Plato, "Phaedo," 38-41
    Thomas Nagel, "Death," 41-48

Death and the Nature of the Soul
W, 6/12: Bertrand Russell, "Belief in Life After Death Comes From Emotion, Not Reason" reserve reading
    Peter Geach, "What Must Be True Of Me If I Survive My Death?" reserve reading
Th, 6/13: Film: "The Sixth Sense" and class discussion

The Question of God
M, 6/17: Gregory Pence, "Aquinas and the Rationality of Belief in God," 157-68 only
    Thomas Aquinas, "Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God," 177-182
    William Paley, "The Evidence of Design," 182-89
    Blaise Pascal, "Pascal’s Wager," handout
    Essay One Due

The Problem of Evil
T, 6/18: Pence, 168-174
    Nel Noddings, "Women and Evil" reserve reading
    Ron Rosenbaum, "Degrees of Evil," reserve reading

Free Will
W, 6/19: George Graham and Harold Kincaid, "Sartre on Being Free," 81-105
    Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness," 105-117
    skim Simon Blackburn, "Free Will," 81-119, reserve reading
Th, 6/20: Midterm Examination

The Question of Knowledge
M, 6/24: G. Lynn Stephens, "Descartes and the Problem of Our Knowledge of the External World," 237-260
    Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave," handout
    Rene Descartes, "Meditations on the First Philosophy," 261-270

Ethics
T, 6/25: James Rachels, "Nietzsche and the Objectivity of Morals," 385-414
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Selections, 414-423
    Gregory Pence, "Four Questions About Ethics," handout
W, 6/26: Film: "Crimes and Misdemeanors" and discussion
    Also read Aristotle, Selections from Nicomachean Ethics, handout

Postmodern Philosophy/Introduction to Aesthetics
Th, 6/27: Introduction to Postmodernism/What is Beauty?
    Reread Rachels, "Nietzsche’s Perspectivism," 394-98
    Jean Baudrillard, Simulations
M, 7/ 1: Jean Baudrillard, Simulations
    Essay Two Due
T, 7/2: Film: "Run Lola Run" and discussion
W, 7/3: Last Day of Class
    Final Examination
Th, 7/4: No Classes: Independence Day