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Assignments

Action and Uncertainty in Pascal’s Wager and Shakespeare’s Hamlet

An Examination of the Role of Evil in the World as it is Considered in the Works of Leibniz and Darwin

Candide, Beyond the Satire on Leibniz

Exploring the Philosophy of Purpose in Voltaire’s Candide

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Inconsistency and Chance in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Links between Human Rationality and Animal Savagery in The Island of Dr. Moreau

On the Erroneous Consideration of Wells’ Dr. Moreau as an Allegory for Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection

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Readings

A Calculation of the Credibility of Human Testimony

A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties

Abridgement of the Argument

An Argument for Divine Providence, taken from the constant Regularity observ'd in the Births of both Sexes

An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances

Aristotle's Physics

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Excerpts from An Essay on Man

Excerpts from Descent of Man

Excerpts from Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill

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Literature

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Spring 2008

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Undergraduate

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Literature

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Spring 2008

Level

Undergraduate

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