Problems of Philosophy

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	DUE DATES
1	Introductions
Proving the Existence (or Nonexistence) of God
2	God Exists: Old and New Arguments from Design
3	God Does Not Exist: The Problem of Evil
4	Faith
Metaethics
5	Ethics and God
6	Subjectivism
7	Objectivism
Consciousness
8	Dualist Accounts of How Things Feel	Paper 1 due
9	Materialist Accounts of How Things Feel
10	Panpsychism
Free Will
11	Incompatiblism about Free Will and Determinism
12	Compatibilist Theories of Free Will	Paper 1 rewrite due
13	Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Personal Identity
14	The Psychological Criterion of Personal Identity over Time
15	Personal Fission	Paper 2 due
16	The Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity over Time
17	Is There a Self?
Meaning of Life
18	The Meanings of Lives	Paper 3 due
19	The Absurd
Race and Gender
20	Death and the Afterlife
21	Race
22	Gender and Social Construction
23	Feminist Epistemology
24	Time Travel
25	The Non-Identity Problem	Final paper due