Pemberton Course Schedule

August 28
Thursday: -Check. Check One. Sibilance (intro to class; no reading)

September 2-4
Tuesday: -Doing Philosophy (no reading)
Thursday: -Some Logic | Deductive Arguments (pages 37—45)

September 9-11
Tuesday: -Some Logic | Inductive & Abductive Arguments (pages 4—11)
Thursday: -Knowledge | Descartes vs. Skepticism (pages 50-53; 58-71)

September 16-18
Tuesday: -Knowledge | Descartes vs. Skepticism (pages 50-53; 58-71)
Thursday: -Knowledge | Rationalism: Plato (pages 71—82)
(Reading Response #1 due)

September 23-25
Tuesday: -Knowledge | Empiricism: Locke (pages 88—96)
Thursday: -Knowledge | Empiricism: Hume (pages 104—113)

September 30 – October 2
Tuesday: -QUIZ; Knowledge | Hume Wrap-up
Thursday: -Does God Exist? | Aquinas & The Cosmological Arg (pages 306—316)

October 7-9
Tuesday: -Does God Exist? | Taylor & The Cosmological Argument (pages 317—322)
Thursday: -Does God Exist? | Ontological Argument (pages 337—342)

October 14-16
Tuesday: -Does God Exist? | Paley & The Design Argument (pages 322—325)
(Reading Response #2 due)
Thursday: -Does God Exist? | Hume & The Design Argument (pages 326—337)

October 21-23
Tuesday: -Does God Exist? | Problem of Evil Intro & Review for Midterm (pages 356—360)
Thursday: -MIDTERM

October 28-30
Tuesday: -Does God Exist? | Hick & The Problem of Evil (pages 360—372)
Thursday: -Faith & Reason | Pascal (pages 342—347)

November 4-6
Tuesday: -Intro to Ethics | Plato (pages 400—402 & 408—415)
(Reading Response #3 due)
Thursday: -Ethical Relativism | Herodotus & Benedict (pages 415—427)

November 11-13
Tuesday: -Utilitarianism | Intro (pages 454—458) & Mill (pages 461—466)
Thursday: -Utilitarianism | Norcross (pages 466—472)

November 18-20
Tuesday: -Deontological Ethics | Kant (pages 472-484)
(Reading Response #4 due)
Thursday: -Virtue Ethics | Intro (pages 490—498) & Aristotle (pages 490—504)

November 25-27
Tuesday: -Virtue Ethics Wrap-up (no new reading)
Thursday: -THANKSGIVING BREAK (no class)

December 2-4
Tuesday: -Ethics Wrap-up (no new reading)
Thursday: -Review for Final Exam

Week of December 8-15
FINAL EXAM (Date, time, and location to be announced)