Phil 1000: Introduction to Philosophy
(summer course)
Required Texts
All readings made available on Blackboard site for the course.
Course Overview:
The primary objective of this course is to develop your mature reasoning of complex issues at the heart of understanding the world and our place in it.
The course employs a differentiated curriculum with some aspects of project-based learning.
Topics
Knowledge and Method:
- Selections from
- Plato, The Apology
- Rene Descartes, Meditations
- Jennifer Nagel, 'Epistemic Intuitions: A Defense of the Case Method in Epistemology'
- Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature
Metaphysics or What there is and what is its nature:
- (baby-steps into Phil Mind) Selections from
- Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature
- Brie Gertler, 'In Defense of Mind-Body Dualism'
- (baby-steps into Phil of Religion) Selections from
- Al-Gazali, Revival of the Religious Sciences
- William Paley, Natural Theology
- Eleonore Stump, 'The Problem of Evil'
Value and Right Action:
- (baby-steps into The Good Life) Selections from
- Jean Kazez's, The Weight of Things: Philosophy and the Good Life
- Susan Wolf's, Meaning in Life and Why it Matters
- Albert Camus's, The Myth of Sisyphus
- (baby-steps into Normative Ethics) Selections from
- Julia Driver's, Ethics: the Fundamentals
- Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia