Philosophy of Religion

Readings by Topic: (all readings will be available on Blackboard)

IMMORTALITY
Williams “The Makropulos Case”
Rosenberg “Reassessing Immortality: The Makropulos Case Revisted”
Perry A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality (Nights 1 & 2)

HELL
Edwards “The Eternity of Hell’s Torments”
Sider “Hell and Vagueness”

THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
Plantinga “The Cosmological Argument”
Martin “The Ontological Argument”
Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Parts 2-10)

FREE WILL
van Inwagen “An Argument for Incompatibilism”
Frankfurt “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility”
Strawson “The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility”
Wolf “Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility”

THE VERY IDEA OF RELIGION
Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals
Sartre “Existentialism is a Humanism”

Week 1
Warm-Up
Williams

Week 2
Williams
Rosenberg
Rosenberg

Week 3
Perry (first night)
Perry (first night)

Week 4
Perry (second night)
Perry (second night)
Perry (second night)

RECONSTRUCTION DUE

Week 5
Sider
Sider/Edwards
Edwards

Week 6
Plantinga
Plantinga/Martin
Martin

Week 7
Hume
Hume
Hume

Week 8
Hume
Hume
Hume

Week 9
Hume
Hume
Hume

Week 10
Hume
Hume

HUME PAPER DUE

Week 11
van Inwagen
van Inwagen/Frankfurt
Frankfurt

Week 12
Strawson
Strawson/Wolf
Wolf

FREE WILL PAPER DUE

Week 13
Nietzsche (1st essay)
Nietzsche (1st essay)
Nietzsche (2nd essay)

Week 14
Nietzsche (2nd essay)
Nietzsche (3rd essay)
Nietzsche (3rd essay)

Week 15
Sartre
Sartre

NIETZSCHE PAPER DUE