1/11, 1/13

What is Philosophy?
* Bertrand Russell, The Value of Philosophy (pp. 24-28)

1/18, 1/20

Introduction to Logic
* Deductive, Inductive and Abductive Reasoning  (pp. 29-37)

1/25, 1/27

Free-Will and Determinism
 * Clifford Williams, Free Will and Determinism: A Dialog, pp. 1-43

2/1, 2/3

First Assignment Due: Thursday, February 3rd

* Clifford Williams, Free Will and Determinism: A Dialog, pp. 43-58
* W. T. Stace, Compatibilism (pp. 342-347)

2/8, 2/10

* Richard Taylor, Fate (pp. 348-357)

The Mind-Body Problem
* Rene Descartes, Cartesian Doubt and Foundational Knowledge (pp. 143-149)

2/15, 2/17

* Rene Descartes, Dualistic Interactionism (pp. 229-236)
First Midterm Exam: Thursday, February 17^th

2/22, 2/24

* Gilbert Ryle, Exorcising Descartes’ “Ghost in the Machine” (pp. 236-242)

Personal Identity
* John Locke, Our Psychological Properties Define the Self (pp. 289-292)

3/1, 3/3

Second Assignment: Due Tuesday, March 1^st

* David Hume, We Have No Substantial Self with Which we are Identical (pp. 293-295)
* John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality, pp. 1-18

3/8, 3/10

Spring Break

3/15, 3/17

* John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality, pp.19-49

3/22, 3/24

Personhood
* Justin Leiber, Can Animals and Machines be Persons?, pp. ix-22.

3/29, 3/31

* Justin Leiber, Can Animals and Machines be Persons?, pp. 25-67

Second Midterm Exam: Thursday, March 31st

4/5, 4/7

Moral Relativism/Why be Moral?
* Ruth Benedict, Morality is Relative (pp. 364-369)
* James Rachels, Morality is Not Relative (pp. 369-378)

4/12, 4/14

* Plato, Why Should I Be Moral? Gyges’ Ring and Socrates’ Dilemma (pp. 379-384)
* Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialist Ethics (pp. 434-440)

4/19, 4/21

Third Assignment: Due Tuesday, April 19^th

Rights, Liberty, and Justification for Political Authority
* John Stuart Mill, A Classical Liberal Answer (pp. 466-472)
* Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (handout)

4/26, 4/28

5/3
7:45–9:45

Final Exam