announcements
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cultural relativism
here are some clips to get you thinking about cultural relativism
Posted Dec 3, 2012, 9:22 AM by Brian Rabern
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paper 2 assigned
the final paper---paper 2---has been assigned. its due 12/20. hmwk 5 was assigned before the break and hwwk 6 is coming shortly. then that's it.
Posted Nov 27, 2012, 9:44 AM by Brian Rabern
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hmwk 4 assigned
homework 4 has been assigned. the relevant readings are the following: locke, "of ideas of identity and diversity" and think, pp. 120-148.due 11/16: *homework 4*
Posted Nov 8, 2012, 7:32 AM by Brian Rabern
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time travel to kill hitler
could one go back in time and kill hitler? the scenario in the comic below makes perfect sense according to a lewisian understanding of time travel (see david lewis ...
Posted Oct 28, 2012, 7:53 PM by Brian Rabern
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can machines think?
Posted Oct 13, 2012, 11:06 AM by Brian Rabern
course schedule
-- intro --
-- gods --
- 9/5 [lecture 3: the ontological argument] read: think, pp. 149-159; anselm's proslogion; zagzebski, § 2.4.
- 9/10 [lecture 4: the cosmological argument] read: think, pp. 159-163; zagzebski, § 2.3; aquinas's summa; hume, pt. 2.
- 9/12 [lecture 5: the design argument] read: think, pp. 163-168; zagzebski, § 2.2; hume, pt. 3.
- 9/17 [lecture 6: why anything? why this?] read: parfit, "why anything? why this?".
- 9/19 [lecture 7: religious experience and god] read: james, varieties [lecs. XVI and XVII]; leary, "the religious experience".
- 9/24 [lecture 8: the problem of evil] read: think, 168-176; hume pt. 10-11 (options: russell, ``why i'm not a christian")
- 9/26 [lecture 9: divine evil] read: lewis, "divine evil".
-- knowledge --
-- minds --
{{ paper 1 due (10/31) }}
-- the self --
**thanksgiving break**
-- value --
- 11/26 [lecture 24: religion and value theory] read: dennett, "morality and religion"; exodus, chapters 20-24; hume, "of suicide"
- 11/28 [lecture 25: god's death and nihilism] read: nietzsche, [selections]; anthony, "good minus god"
- 12/3 [lecture 26: cultural relativism and morality] read: rachels, "the challenge of cultural relativism"
- 12/5 [lecture 27: against relativism] read: rachels, "the challenge of cultural relativism"
- 12/10 [lecture 28: the basic argument for vegetarianism] read: rachels, "the basic argument for vegetarianism; pollan, "the ethics of eating animals" (the omivore’s dilemma, chapter 17)
- 12/12 [lecture 29: vegetarianism and the ethics of animals]: norcross, "puppies, pigs, and people"; "dfw, "consider the lobster"
{{ paper 2 due (12/20) }}
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