Syllabus
Readings
- What is an Argument?
- Some Vocabulary Describing Arguments
- Analyzing Concepts
- Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence (by George Mavrodes)
- The Design Argument (by Allen Stairs and Chris Bernard)
- The Cosmological Argument
- The Ontological Argument (by Alvin Plantinga)
Course Specific Handouts**
- Argument Handout
- Invalid Arguments
- Conceptual Analysis, Thought Experiments, and Counterexamples
- The Concept of God
- Omniscience Puzzles
- Arguments for God’s Existence
- The Fine-Tuning Argument
- Two Cosmological Arguments
- Two More Cosmological Arguments
- An Epistemic Version of PSR
- Is Existence a Property?
- **Note: These Handouts are supplements/outlines of class lecture and discussion – they will not always contain everything that comes up in class that you will be expected to know.
Study Guides
- Midterm Exam
- Final Exam Study Guide (will be linked to later)
- Final Exam Schedule Here
First Paper
- FIRST WRITING ASSIGNMENT
- Submit paper using Google Docs – See Here for Instructions
- Some Useful Handouts
Final Research Paper
- Final Paper and Research Posts
- BONUS: Using PEE as a Building Block to Write Longer Papers (this should help you see how the short paper assignment can help you with the long paper assignment)