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Preliminaries
Week One (Sept 10-14) An exemplar: Death
  1. Epicurus – "Letter to Menoeceus" (coursepack)
  2. Nagel–"Death" (coursepack)

N.B.: Tutorials this week
Week Two (Sept 17-21) Some tools for doing philosophy
  1. Bailey–"A brief introduction to arguments" (text, pp. 5-11)

Philosophy of Religion
Week Three (Sept 24-28) Arguments for the existence of God
  1. Anselm–Proslogion (text, pp. 21-23)
  2. Gaunilo–"On Behalf of the Fool" (text, pp. 23-26)
N.B.:  Tutorials this week
Week Four (Oct 1-5) More arguments
  1. Aquinas–Summa Theologiae (text, pp. 41-42)
  2. Pascal–"The Wager" (coursepack)

Week Five (Oct 8-12)

Thanksgiving is Oct 8

 Hume's Dialogues
  • Hume–Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (text, pp. 49-82)

Week Six (Oct 15-19)

Paper one due Oct 16

 Hume (continued)
  • Hume–Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion(text, pp. 49-82) 
N.B.:  Tutorials this week

Ethics
Week Seven (Oct 22-26) Divine Command Ethics
  1. Excerpts from the Bible (coursepack)
  2. Quinn–"theological Voluntarism" (coursepack)
Week Eight (Oct 29-Nov 2) D.C.E. (continued)
  1. Plato–Ethyphro (coursepack)

N.B.: Tutorials this week
Week Nine (Nov 5-9) Utilitarianism
  1. Mill–Utilitarianism (text, pp. 680-703)
Week Ten (Nov 12-16) Utilitarianism (continued)
  1. Mill–Utilitarianism (text, pp. 680-703)
  2. Singer–"Famine, Affluence, and Morality" (coursepack)

N.B.: Tutorials this week
Week Eleven (Nov 19-23) Kantianism
  1. Kant–Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (text, pp. 647-670)
Week Twelve (Nov 26-30) Kantianism (continued)
  1. Kant–Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (text, pp. 647-670)
  2. O'Neill–"Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems (coursepack)

N.B.: Tutorials this week
Exam Period (Dec 1-20)
Mid-year test to be held sometime between Dec 5-20 (exact date TBA)

Christmas Break

Preliminaries
Week One (Jan 14-18) An exemplar: Happiness
  1. Aristotle–Nicomachean Ethics (text, pp. 624-627)
  2. Feldman–"Some puzzles about happiness" (coursepack)

N.B.: Tutorials this week

Epistemology
Week Two (Jan 14-18) Rationalism
  1. Descartes–Meditations (text, pp. 144-150 and 157-161)
Week Three (Jan 21-24) Empiricism
  1. Locke–An Essa Concerning Human Understanding (text, pp. 179-189)

N.B.: Tutorials this week
Week Four (Jan 28-Feb 1) Idealism
  1. Berkeley–Three Dialogues (text, pp. 195-215)
  2. Moore–"Proof of an external world" (text, pp.250-263)
Week Five (Feb 4-8) Transcendental Idealism
  1. Kant–Critique of Pure Reason (text, pp. 222-224 and 225-228; also coursepack)

N.B.: Tutorials this week

Metaphysics (1):

Causation


Week Six (Feb 11-15) The problem of induction
  1. Hume–An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (text, pp. 296-303)
  2. Goodman–Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (text, pp. 319-322)
Reading week (Feb 18-22)

Week Seven (Feb 25-Mar 1) Solutions to the problem
  1. Hempel–"Scientific Inquiry: Invention and Text" (text, pp. 326-330)
  2. Peirce–"The Fixation of Belief" (text, pp. 379-386)

N.B.: Tutorials this week

Metaphysics (2):

Free Will


Week Eight (Mar 4-8) That we do have free will
  1. Descartes–Letter to Princess Elizabeth(coursepack)
  2. Ayer–"Freedom and Necessity" (text, pp. 558-563)
Week Nine (Mar 11-15) That we don't have free will
  1. Spinoza–selections from theEthics (coursepack)
  2. Rée–The Illusion of Free Will(text, pp. 530-542)

N.B.: Tutorials this week

Political Philosophy
Week Ten (Mar 18-22) Historical approaches to justice
  1. Aristotle–selections from Nicomachean Ethics Book V (text, pp. 748-755)
  2. Hobbes–selections from the Leviathan Part I (text, pp. 765-776)

N.B.: Tutorials this week

Week Eleven (Mar 25-29)

Good Friday is March 29
  1. Continuing historical approaches to justice
  2. Starting contemporary approaches to justice
  1. Mill–selections from On Liberty Chapter IV (text, pp. 816-826)
  2. Rawls–selections from Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (text, pp. 897-902, 909-914)

N.B.: Tutorials this week
Week Twelve (Apr 1-5) Continuing contemporary approaches to justice
  1. Nozick–selections from Anarchy State and Utopia (text, pp. 878-893)
  2. Moller Okin–various readings (text, pp. 897-902, 909-914)

N.B.: Tutorials this week
Exam Period (Apr 6-27)
End-of-ear test to be held sometime between April 11-27 (exact date TBA)

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