Please note:  Readings are listed on the day they will be discussed in class and students are                

                    expected to have completed the reading before we meet.  It is also strongly    

                    recommended that students read the material again after the class discussion.

Tues. 8/25 First day of class

Thur. 8/27 What is Philosophy? (Ch. 1) – Plato/Locke/Russell

Tues. 9/1 Introduction to Logic

Thur. 9/3 Epistemology  (Ch. 3) – Descartes

Tues. 9/8 Locke

Thur. 9/10 Berkeley

Tues. 9/15 Truth Theories – Russell

Thur. 9/17 James

Tues. 9/22 Rorty

Thur. 9/24 Philosophy of Mind  (Ch. 4) – Descartes

Tues. 9/29 Ryle

Thur. 10/1 Churchland

Tues. 10/6 Nagel

Thur. 10/8 Searle

Tues. 10/13 EXAM 1

Thur. 10/15 Philosophy of Religion  (Ch. 2)—Cosmological Argument (Aquinas vs. Edwards)

Tues. 10/20 The Teleological Argument (Paley vs. Hume)

Thur. 10/22 The Ontological Argument (Anselm & Rowe)

Tues. 10/27 Problem of Evil – Dostoevsky/Johnson

Thur. 10/29    Reason, Faith and Religion – Pascal/Clifford/James

Tues. 11/3 Kierkegaard

Thur. 11/5 Russell

Tues. 11/10 Ethics  (Ch. 6) – Plato

Thur. 11/12 Aristotle

Tues. 11/17 Kant

Thur. 11/19 Mill

Tues. 11/24 Sartre

Thurs. 11/26 No Class (Thanksgiving Holiday)

Tues. 12/1 TBA

Thur. 12/3 TBA

Tues. 12/8 EXAM 2    (Last Day of Class)

**Please Note:  This is a tentative schedule of the readings that we will cover this semester.  I reserve the right to alter the readings as I see fit.**