Mt. Laurel Course Schedule

January 22-24
Tuesday: -Check. Check One. Sibilance (intro to class; no reading)
Thursday: -Doing Philosophy (no reading)

January 29-31
Tuesday: -Some Logic | Deductive Arguments (pages 37—45)
Thursday: -Some Logic | Inductive & Abductive Arguments (pages 4—11)

February 5-7
Tuesday: -Epistemology | Descartes vs. Skepticism (pages 50-53; 58-71)
Thursday: -Epistemology | Descartes vs. Skepticism (pages 50-53; 58-71)

February 12-14
Tuesday: -Epistemology | Rationalism: Plato (pages 71—82)
(Reading Response #1 due)
Thursday: -Epistemology | Empiricism: Locke (pages 88—96)

February 19-21
Tuesday: -Epistemology | Empiricism: Hume (pages 104—113)
Thursday: -QUIZ; Epistemology | Hume Wrap-up

February 26-28
Tuesday: -Does God Exist? | Aquinas & The Cosmological Arg (pages 306—316)
Thursday: -Does God Exist? | Taylor & The Cosmological Argument (pages 317—322)

March 4-6
SPRING BREAK (no class)

March 11-13
Tuesday: -Does God Exist? | Ontological Argument (pages 337—342)
Thursday: -Does God Exist? | Paley & The Design Argument (pages 322—325)
(Reading Response #2 due)

March 18-20
Tuesday: -Does God Exist? | Hume & The Design Argument (pages 326—337)
Thursday: -Does God Exist? | Problem of Evil Intro & Review for Midterm (pages 356—360)

March 25-27
Tuesday: -MIDTERM
Thursday: -Does God Exist? | Hick & The Problem of Evil (pages 360—372)

April 1-3
Tuesday: -Faith & Reason | Pascal (pages 342—347)
Thursday: -Intro to Ethics | Plato (pages 400—402 & 408—415)
(Reading Response #3 due)

April 8-10
Tuesday: -Ethical Relativism | Herodotus & Benedict (pages 415—427)
Thursday: -Utilitarianism | Intro (pages 454—458) & Mill (pages 461—466)

April 15-17
Tuesday: -Utilitarianism | Norcross (pages 466—472)
Thursday: -Deontological Ethics | Kant (pages 472-484)
(Reading Response #4 due)

April 22-24
Tuesday: -Virtue Ethics | Intro (pages 490—498) & Aristotle (pages 490—504)
Thursday: -Virtue Ethics Wrap-up (no new reading)

April 29-May 1
Tuesday: -Ethics Wrap-up (no new reading)
Thursday: -Review for Final Exam

May 6
FINAL EXAM (Date, time, and location to be announced)