This section includes a selection of course lecture notes.
Lecture notes files.| Ses # | Topics |
|---|
| 1 | Introduction |
| Reason To Believe: Does God Exist? |
| 2 | Existence of God: Ontological Argument (PDF) |
| 3 | Problem of Evil I (PDF) |
| 4 | Problem of Evil II (PDF) |
| 5 | Pascal's Wager (PDF) |
| Rationality and Belief |
| 6 | Ethics of Belief: Evidentialism v. Pragmatism (PDF) |
| 7 | Racism and Belief (PDF) |
| 8 | Stereotypes and Belief (PDF) |
| 9 | Scientific Reason or Scientific Faith? (PDF) |
| 10 | More on Science and Faith (PDF) |
| Mind and Body |
| 11 | The Mind-Body Problem (PDF 1) (PDF 2) |
| 12 | Consciousness and Felt Experience |
| 13 | Materialist Options |
| 14 | Robots and Functionalism (PDF) |
| Freewill, Determinism, and Responsibility |
| 15 | Hard Determinism (PDF) |
| 16 | Compatibilism I (PDF) |
| 17 | Compatibilism II (PDF) |
| 18 | Libertarianism (PDF) |
| Morality and Right Conduct |
| 19 | Moral Variation Across Cultures (PDF) |
| 20 | Utilitarianism (PDF) |
| 21 | Ethical Egoism (PDF) |
| 22 | Famine (PDF) |
| 23 | Kantianism |
| 24 | Famine, Virtue and Duty |
| 25 | Moral Luck |
| 26 | Just War Theory |
| 27 | Final lecture |