Tentative Schedule

Week 1: Jan 28 - Feb 1 – Introduction
Kierkegaard: Truth is Subjectivity (p. 118)

Week 2: Feb 4 - 8 – Faith and Reason:
Clifford: The Ethics of Belief (p. 104)
Peter Van Inwagen: It is wrong....

Week 3: Feb 11 - 15 – Faith and Reason, ctd:
Clifford and Van Inwagen, ctd.
Pascal: The Wager (p. 101)

Week 4: Feb 19 - 22 -- Miracles and Religious Experience
Alston: Religious Experience as Perception of God (p. 45)

Week 5: Feb 25 - 29 – Miracles and Religious Experience
Martin:Critique of Religious Experience (p. 65)
Mackie: Miracles and Testimony (p. 488)

Week 6: Mar 3 - 7 – The Classical Ontological Argument
Anselm: The Classical Ontological Argument (p. 176)
Gaunilo: Critique of Anselm’s Argument (p. 178)
-Test 1-

Week 7: Mar 10 - 14 – The Modal Ontological Argument
Van Inwagen: Necessary Beings
Mavrodes: Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence (p. 147)

Week 8: Mar 24 - 26 –The Cosmological Argument
Reichenbach: The Cosmological Argument (p. 197)
Mackie: Critique of the Cosmological Argument (p. 223)
(no class on Mar 28!)

Week 9: Mar 31 - Apr 4 – Teleological Arguments
Paley: The Analogical Teleological Argument (p. 232)
Betty+Cordell: The Anthropic Teleological Argument (p. 235)
Weisberg: Sober on the Design Argument -- at least Section 1

Week 10: Apr 7 - 11 –Problem of Evil
Hume: Evil Makes a Strong Case… (p. 296)
Mackie: Evil and Omnipotence (p. 304)

Week 11: Apr 14 - 18 – The Problem of Evil, ctd.
Plantinga: The Free Will Defense (p. 315)
Rowe: The Evidential Argument from Evil (p. 354)

Week 12: Apr 23 - 25 –Providence and Free Will
Helm:Providence -- Risky or Risk-Free? (p. 382)
-Test 2-

Week 13: Apr 28 - May 2 – Freedom and Foreknowledge:
Boethius: God is Timeless (p. 155)
Basinger: Middle Knowledge and Classical Christian Thought (p.393)
Lewis: Divine Evil

Week 14: May 5 - 9 – Life After Death
Swinburne: The Soul Needs a Brain to Continue to Function (p. 510)
Badham: Problems with Accounts of Life After Death (p. 521)

Week 15: May 12 – Conclusion
-Final Paper Due-