Philosophy 4320

The Existence of God

Syllabus

· link

Handouts

· arguments

· the stone

· foreknowledge

· Anselm’s arguments

· Modal ontological argument

· Cosmological argument

· PSR

· Kalaam

· Successive addition and infinity

· Causal finitism

· Dawkins

· Fine tuning

· Plantinga on naturalism

· Lewis / Wielenberg assignment

· Moral argument

· Moral epistemological argument

· An argument in Moreland

· Mackie’s argument from evil

· Rowe and Draper

· Alston

· Russell and Wykstra

· Dougherty and Pruss

· Cosmos as a Work of Art

· Schellenberg

Reading

Please let me know as soon as possible if any links are broken!

· Tue Aug 22: no reading assigned

· Thu Aug 24: (i) Aquinas (Summa Theologiae, Part I, Question 25, Article 3); (ii) Mavrodes

· Tue Aug 29: Plantinga

· Thu Aug 31: Stump & Kretzmann

· Tue Sep 5: (i) Anselm (Chapters II-III); (ii) Gaunilo & Anselm

· Thu Sep 7: (i) Plantinga (link); (ii) Pruss (link)

· Tue Sep 12: Rowe

· Thu Sep 14: Pruss (link), but skip 2.2.3, 2.2.6-2.2.6.6, 2.2.8, 2.3.3, 2.3.5 and all of 3.xxx

· Tue Sep 19: Pruss, Chapter I, Sections 1-4

· Thu Sep 21: (i) Pruss, Chapter III, but skip 2.3-2.6, 3.6.xxx; (ii) Malpass

· Tue Sep 26: Paley (link)

· Thu Sep 28: (i) Collins; (ii) Draper

· Tue Oct 3: Hawthorne & Isaacs

· Thu Oct 5: Plantinga

· Tue Oct 10: Searle (link)

· Thu Oct 12: Page

· Tue Oct 17: Lewis; Wielenberg

· Thu Oct 19: Hume

· Tue Oct 24: Hajek (alternative link)

· Thu Oct 26: Mackie (link)

· Tue Oct 31: (i) O’Keefe (link); (ii) McCloskey (link)

· Thu Nov 2: Rowe

· Tue Nov 7: Alston (link)

· Thu Nov 9: (i) Dougherty and Pruss (link); (ii) Hick

· Tue Nov 14: Benton, Hawthorne & Isaacs (skip sections 6, 7, 8 and 9)

· Thu Nov 16: Alston, chapter 1 (up to page 33)

· Tue Nov 28: Schellenberg part of Chapter 7 (under Challenges to Religious Belief)

· Thu Nov 30: Moser part of Chapter 7

· Tue Dec 5: bring your favorite argument for or against God’s existence to class day!