Contact Information

    Professor: Megan Wallace
    Office: King 120D
    Office Hours: TBA, and by appointment
    Office Phone: x56054
    Email: mwallace@oberlin.edu

Course Information

    Webpage: http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/mwallace/Phil120-01S10.html
    Where: King 306
    When: TR 9:35-10:50am

    Course Syllabus
    Course Reading Schedule

Handouts

    Some Logic
    The Cosmological Argument
    The Teleological Argument
    The Ontological Argument
    Pragmatic Considerations 
    The Problem of Evil
    On Perry's Dialogues


Sources

    Anselm of Canterbury. (1077-78) Proslogium. [We used the on-line source HERE.]
    Aquinas, St. Thomas (1265-1274). Summa Theologica. [We used the on-line text HERE.]
    *Berkeley, George (1713) Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. [We used the on-line book version HERE, from the Havard Classics collection, provided by bartelyby.org.]
    Campbell, Keith. (1992) Body and Mind. University of Notre Dame Press.
    Conee, Earl and Sider, Theodore. (2005) Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
    Descartes, Renee. (1641) Meditations On First Philosophy. [We used the on-line text, translated by John Veitch (1901), which you can find HERE.]
    Hume, David. (1779) Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. [We used the on-line text HERE.]
    Hume, David. (1748) An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. [We used the on-line text provided by ebooks@adelaide, which you can find HERE.]
    Locke, John. (1690) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. [We used the on-line text, which you can find HERE.]
    Pascal, Blaise (1659) Pensees. [We used the on-line version HERE].
    *Perry, John. (1978) A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Co.
    Perry, John (ed.). (2008) Personal Identity, Second Edition. University of California Press.
    Rea, Michael (ed.). (1997) Material Constitution: A Reader. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
    Watson, Gary (ed.). (1982) Free Will. Oxford Readings in Philosophy. Oxford University Press.

* Indicates a text that we will read (almost) in its entirety. If you prefer to have your own, printed copy, feel free to order through ABE books, or any on-line site or bookstore of your choice.


Exam Review Sheets and Paper Topics


    Exam I Review Sheet
    Paper I Topics
    Exam II Review Sheet
    Paper II Topics
    Exam III Review Sheet
    Paper III Topics

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