(RR = Reason and Responsibility)
Weeks One-Four: Rational Theology
- Week One: Introduction
- Plato, Euthyphro, RR, 580
- Feinberg, ‘A Logic Lesson,’ RR, 1
- Week Two:
- Paley, ‘The Argument from Design,’ RR, 56
- Hume, ‘Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion,’ RR, 61
- Anselm, ‘The Ontological Argument from Proslogion,’ RR, 30
- Rowe, ‘The Ontological Argument,’ RR, 34
- Week Three:
- Mackie, ‘Evil and Omnipotence,’ RR, 100
- Van Inwagen, ‘The Argument from Evil,’ RR, 108
- Johnson, ‘God and the Problem of Evil,’ RR, 121
- Week Four:
- Clifford, ‘The Ethics of Belief,’ RR, 125
- Blackburn, ‘Miracles and Testimony,’ RR, 145
Weeks Five-Eight: The Mind and its Place in Nature
- Week Five
- Gertler, ‘In Defense of Mind-Body Dualism,’ RR, 312
- Jackson, ‘The Qualia Problem,’ RR, 324
- Week Six:
- Carruthers, ‘The Mind is the Brain,’ RR, 327
- Churchland, ‘Functionalism and Eliminative Materialism,’ RR, 335
- Week Seven:
- Turing, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence,’ RR, 343
- Searle, ‘Minds, Brains, Programs,’ RR, 351
- Week Eight:
- Sider, ‘Personal Identity,’ RR, 364
- Perry, ‘A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality,’ RR, 382
- Shields, ‘Personal Identity’ (podcast)
Week Nine: Mid-semester Break
Weeks Ten-Twelve: Free Will and Human Responsibility
- Week Ten:
- Strawson, ‘The Maze of Free Will,’ RR, 467
- Van Inwagen, ‘The Mysteries of Free Will, RR, 409
- Week Eleven:
- Pereboom, ‘Why We Have No Free Will and Can Live Without It,’ RR, 443
- Hume, ‘Of Liberty and Necessity,’ RR, 456
- Ayer, ‘Freedom and Necessity,’ RR, 461
- Week Twelve:
- Chisholm, ‘Human Freedom and the Self,’ RR, 418
- Nagel, ‘Moral Luck,’ RR, 475
Weeks Thirteen-Sixteen: Morality and its Critics
- Week Thirteen:
- Feinberg, ‘Psychological Egoism,’ RR, 501
- Plato, ‘The Immoralist’s Challenge,’ RR, 513
- Week Fourteen:
- Shafer-Landau, ‘Ethical Subjectivism,’ RR, 535
- Mill, ‘Utilitarianism,’ RR, 596
- Week Fifteen:
- Ross, ‘What Makes Right Acts Right?’ RR, 610
- Joyce, ‘The Evolutionary Debunking of Morality,’ RR, 527
- Nietzsche, ‘Master and Slave Morality,’ RR, 519
- Week Sixteen:
- Wielenberg, ‘God and the Meaning of Life,’ RR, 664