Plotinus
Kant

Fall 2012 Class Calendar

PHIL-1301-042
Introduction to Philosophy
D. Andrew Christie, M.A.
Heidegger
Jaspers

Fall 2012 Course Calendar

Quiz #1 Quiz Date: Unannounced Schedule
Quiz #2 Quiz Date: Unannounced Schedule
Quiz #3 Quiz Date: Unannounced Schedule
Midterm Exam Exam Date: October 18, 2012
Quiz #4 Quiz Date: Unannounced Schedule
Quiz #5 Quiz Date: Unannounced Schedule
Class Essay Essay Due Date: November 15, 2012
Quiz #6 Quiz Date: Unannounced Schedule
Final Exam Exam Date: December 13, 2012


Socrates
Plato

Fall 2012 Class Calendar

Course Outline &
Reading Assignments
Aristotle
Aquinas

Course Outline/Reading Assignments

Reading assignments in PHILOSOPHY - The Quest For Truth; ed. Louis P. Pojman; 8th edition.

Reading assignments in Looking At Philosophy; Donald Palmer; 6th edition.

Week Day Date Topic Reading -
"Quest For Truth"		 Reading -
"Looking At Philosophy"
1 Tu 28-AUG Introduction; Pre-Socratics; Sophists "Timeline"; pg 1 - 5 pg 1 - 55
1 Th 30-AUG Plato; The Allegory of the Cave; Neoplatonism pg 18 - 21 pg 55 - 72; 105 - 110
2 Tu 04-SEP Socrates; Socratic Wisdom pg 6 - 18  
2 Th 06-SEP Logic - Part I pg 33 - 52  
3 Tu 11-SEP Logic - Part II    
3 Th 13-SEP Introduction to Medieval Philosophy; St Augustine   pg 111 - 119
4 Tu 18-SEP St Anselm & Ontological Argument pg 100 - 103 pg 123 - 126
4 Th 20-SEP St Thomas Aquinas & Cosmological Argument - Part I pg 58 - 61 pg 136 - 146
5 Tu 25-SEP St Thomas Aquinas & Cosmological Argument - Part II    
5 Th 27-SEP Paley & Teleological Argument; Pascal pg 90 - 92; 130 - 134  
6 Tu 02-OCT Introduction to Political Philosophy; Wolff pg 557 - 563  
6 Th 04-OCT Hobbes - Leviathan pg 564 - 573 pg 189 - 194
7 Tu 09-OCT Locke - Democracy pg 574 - 580 pg 198 - 201
7 Th 11-OCT Mill - On Liberty pg 580 - 586 pg 291 - 294
8 Tu 16-OCT Rawls - Liberty & Fairness pg 587 - 596  
8 Th 18-OCT Midterm Exam    
9 Tu 23-OCT Epicureanism pg 601 - 606 pg 95 - 99
9 Th 25-OCT Epictetus & Stoicism pg 607 - 616 pg 99 - 103
10 Tu 30-OCT Introduction to Epistemology; Descartes pg 185 - 194 pg 162 - 179
10 Th 01-NOV Locke - Empiricism pg 194 - 206 pg 194 - 198
11 Tu 06-NOV Hume - Skepticism pg 215 - 218; 259 - 270 pg 207 - 215
11 Th 08-NOV James - Pragmatism pg 226 - 227; 233 - 241 pg 343 - 353
12 Tu 13-NOV Personal Identity - Locke & Hume pg 360 - 371  
12 Th 15-NOV Buddhist Philosophy - Questions to King Milinda pg 372 - 375  
13 Tu 20-Nov Searle - Minds, Brains, & Computers pg 346 - 353  
13 Th 22-NOV HOLIDAY - THANKSGIVING    
14 Tu 27-NOV Moreland - Defense of Dualism pg 299 - 309  
14 Th 29-NOV Plato - Immortality of the Soul pg 375 - 381  
15 Tu 04-DEC Edwards - Mortality of the Soul pg 381 - 390  
15 Th 06-DEC d'Holbach - Determinism pg 399 - 410  
16 Tu 11-DEC Free Will; the Existentialists pg 544 - 550 pg 278 - 286; 305 - 321
16 Th 13-DEC Final Exam    

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