Exam 1
Exam 2
Optional reading: Parfit's My Physics Exam (selection from Reasons and Persons)
In protected section
Comments/Clarifications of questions .doc .pdf
Philosophy of Religion
The Cosmological Argument
- Aquinas, Excerpt from Summa Theologica (the 5 ways)
Here's one online version
The Ontological Argument
- Augustine, Proslogion Ch. II and Ch.III; and Reply to Gaulino
Here are some links: Ch.II, Ch.III; Reply
The Problem of Evil
- J.L. Mackie, Evil and Omnipotence [pp.64-74 in 50 Readings]
Here's one online version - John Hick, The Problem of Evil [pp. 73-85 in 50 Readings]
Pascal's Wager
- Reading TBA
Non-Rationalistic Proofs
- Reading TBA
Personal identity
Diachronic identity
- Parfit, Personal Identity
In protected section
Synchronic identity
- Selection from the Pali Canon [in 50 Readings]
- Hume, Treatise (selection) [in 50 Readings]
- Optional reading: Parfit's My Physics Exam (selection from Reasons and Persons)
In protected section - Dennett The Origins of Selves [in 50 Readings]
Error theories [tentative]
- Dennett The Origins of Selves [in 50 Readings]
Feminist theories [tentative]
- Code, The Perversion of Autonomy and the Subjegation of Women
In protected section - Myers, Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self
In protected section
Video of split brain patient
Video of man with no memory
Ethics
- James Rachels, The Challenge of Cultural Relativism [402-414 in 50 Sel Readings]