Making Sense of Ourselves
Instructor: Meg Wallace
Contact Information:
Office:Caldwell
Office Phone: 919-926-3330
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday11:15-12:15
Email: megw@email.unc.edu
Course Information:
Webpage: http://www.unc.edu/~megw/Phil26SSI.html
Where:Peabody
When: M-F 9:45-11:15am
Syllabus & Tentative Class Schedule [doc]
Current Reading Assignments (updated daily!)
Handouts
On-Line Readings
Saint Anselm of Canterbury's Proslogium: Chapter II & Chapter III
St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica (you only need to read the section titled "Whether God Exists?")
David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: Part II
[optional!] J. L. Mackie's "Evil and Omnipotence" (note: you need access to jstor to follow this link, which you can get anywhere on campus or through UNC's proxy server.)
Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Part IV.
Daniel Dennett's "Where Am I?"
Paper Assignments
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Office:
Office Phone: 919-926-3330
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday
Email: megw@email.unc.edu
Course Information:
Webpage: http://www.unc.edu/~megw/Phil26SSI.html
Where:
When: M-F 9:45-11:15am
Syllabus & Tentative Class Schedule [doc]
Current Reading Assignments (updated daily!)
Handouts
- A Little Bit of Logic [html]
- Plato's Euthyphro [html]
- The Ontological Argument [html]
- The Cosmological Argument [html]
- The Teleological Argument
[html]
- The Problem of Evil [html]
- Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals
[html]
- Descartes: Meditations 1 &2 [html]
- Perry: Personal Identity [html]
On-Line Readings
Saint Anselm of Canterbury's Proslogium: Chapter II & Chapter III
St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica (you only need to read the section titled "Whether God Exists?")
David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: Part II
[optional!] J. L. Mackie's "Evil and Omnipotence" (note: you need access to jstor to follow this link, which you can get anywhere on campus or through UNC's proxy server.)
Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Part IV.
Daniel Dennett's "Where Am I?"
Paper Assignments
- Paper Topic on God
- Paper Topic on Knowledge and Skepticism
- Paper Topic on Personal Identity
- Paper Topic on Love
Page Last Updated: June 20, 2005
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