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!