Week 1: Introduction

6/22: Course introduction.
6/23: Logic, Attributes of God. Readings: A Little Bit of Logic (handout).

Week 2: Arguments for the Existence of God

6/26: The Cosmological Argument. Readings: Pojman's Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (hereafter PR) pp. 1-15.
6/27: The Cosmological Argument (continued). Readings: PR pp. 16-42, The Cosmological Argument (handout).
6/28: The Cosmological Argument (continued); The Teleological Argument. Readings: PR pp. 48-58.
6/29: The Teleological Argument (continued). Readings: PR pp. 59-69.
6/30: The Teleological Argument (continued). Readings: The Teleological Argument (handout).

Week 3: Arguments for the Existence of God (continued)

7/3: ---NO CLASS!---
7/4: ---NO CLASS!---
7/5: The Ontological Argument (continued). Readings: PR pp. 69-75. [Make up class: 7pm Caldwell 105]
7/6:  The Ontological Argument (continued); Review. Readings: The Ontological Argument (handout).
7/7: FIRST EXAM. No reading assignment.

Week 4: Faith and Reason, The Problem of Evil

7/10: Pragmatic Justification of Religious Belief. Readings: PR pp. 359-362, 368-376.
7/11: The Problem of Evil. Readings: PR pp. 137-141.
7/12: The Problem of Evil (continued). Readings: PR pp. 160-166, The Problem of Evil (handout).
7/13: The Problem of Evil (continued). Readings: PR pp. 167-185.
7/14: Free Will. Discussion in class. Free Will (handout)

Week 5: Religion and Morality

7/17: Fideism: Faith Without/Against Reason. Readings: PR pp. 387-390, 399-403.
7/18: Divine Command Theory. Readings: PR pp. 547-549, The Euthyphro Problem. Readings: Plato, Euthyphro (on-line), The Euthyphro Problem (handout).
7/19: Nietzsche. Readings: On the Genealogy of Morals.
7/20: Nietzsche. Readings: On the Genealogy of Morals (the juicy bits!), Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals (handout)
7/21: SECOND EXAM. No reading assignment.

Week 6: Religion and the Meaning of Life

7/24: Religion and the Meaning of Life. Readings: PR pp. 569-577, Plato's Apology (on-line).
7/25: Last day of class; course wrap-up. No reading assignment.
7/26: NO CLASS--Reading Day.
7/27: FINAL EXAM! 11:30-2:30

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