Philosophy 4320

The Existence of God

Syllabus

·         link

Handouts

·       Romans 1:18-23

·       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 Jan 20: no reading assigned

·       Thu Jan 22: (i) Aquinas (Summa Theologiae, Part I, Question 25, Article 3); (ii) Mavrodes

·       Tue Jan 27: Pike

·       Thu Jan 29: Stump & Kretzmann

·       Tue Feb 3: (i) Anselm (Chapters II-III); (ii) Gaunilo & Anselm: read Gaunilo’s criticism and Chapters I-III of Anselm’s “Apologetic”

·       Thu Feb 5: (i) Plantinga (link); (ii) Pruss (link)

·       Tue Feb 10: Rowe

·       Thu Feb 12: 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 Feb 17: Pruss, Chapter I, Sections 1-4

·       Thu Feb 19: (i) Pruss, Chapter III, but skip 2.3-2.6, 3.6.xxx; (ii) Malpass

·       Tue Feb 24: Paley (link)

·       Thu Feb 26: (i) Collins; (ii) Draper

·       Tue Mar  3: Hawthorne & Isaacs

·       Thu Mar  5: Lewis (ch. 1-4); Evans: read (a) the first section up to but not including “Are there objectively binding moral obligations”, then the sections entitled (b) “Do objectively binding moral obligations require God as their foundation?”, (c) “Divine command theories”, and (d) “The intrinsic worth…”

·       Tue Mar 17: Plato’s Euthyphro; Morriston

·       Thu Mar 19: Mackie (link)

·       Tue Mar 24: (i) O’Keefe (link); (ii) McCloskey (link)

·       Thu Mar 26: Rowe

·       Tue Mar 31: Alston (link)

·       Thu Apr  2: (i) Dougherty and Pruss (link); (ii) Hick

·       Tue Apr  7: Russell

·       Thu Apr  9: Lewis and multiple Bible texts and also 1 Corinthians 2:6-12

·       Thu Apr 16: Nagel and Rosenbaum

·       Tue Apr 21: Searle

·       Thu Apr 23: Walls and Pawl and Timpe

·       Tue Apr 28: Hick and Kvanvig

·       Thu Apr 30: Nostra Aetate; Dalai Lama (in Canvas); Byrne

·       Tue May  5: no reading; can write on any past readings

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