Comer 308
Required Text: Does the Center Hold?, Palmer
The dates and assignments contained in this syllabus are presented as a guide only. Actual dates and assignments may vary due to unforeseen occurrences.
| Date | Text Assignment | Web Readings | Homework |
| Week 1 Jan. 7-11 |
What Are We Doing in This Class?
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| Week 2 Jan. 14-18 |
Truth is Beauty, Beauty is Truth
Chapter 2, Pages 38-49 |
Plato's Meno
Plato's Republic |
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| Week 3 Jan. 21-25 |
Chapter 2, Pages 49-71 |
Descartes's Discourse on Method
Descartes's Meditations |
No Class This Week |
| Week 4 Jan 28-Feb 1 |
What You See is What You Get
Chapter 3, Pages 74-95 |
Locke's Essay | Paper 1 draft due |
| Week 5 Feb. 4-8 |
Chapter 3, Pages 95-107 |
Berkeley's Epistemology
Hume's Essay Kant's Critique |
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| Week 6 Feb. 11-15 |
Who's on First, What's on Second?
Chapter 4, Pages 110-128 |
Mind/Body Resources | |
| Week 7 Feb 18-22 |
Chapter 4, Pages 128-148 | Mind/Body Show on No Dogs or Philosophers | No Class on Thursday |
Week 8 |
Mt. Olympus, Mt. Moriah
and Other Godly Places Chapter 5, Pages 148-174 |
Aquinas's Summa Theologica
Pascal's Pensees Russell's Why I am not a Christian |
Handout on the
Arguments
More on Evil Midterm Week |
| Week 9 Mar 3-7 |
Chapter 5, Pages 174-197 |
Hume's Essay
James's Varieties of Religious Experience |
Paper 2 draft due |
| Week 10 Mar. 10-14 |
The Largest Airline in
the Free World Chapter 6, Pages 200-213 |
Plato's Phaedo
Hobbes's Leviathan |
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| Week 11 Mar. 17-21 |
Spring Break Week | ||
| Week 12 Mar. 24-28 |
Chapter 6, Pages 213-235 | Aristotle's On the Soul Leibniz's Monadology |
Free Will Handout |
| Week 13 Mar 31--Ap 4 |
Let Them Eat Cake Chapter 9, Pages 313-346 |
Mill's On Liberty Chomsky Links |
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| Week 14 Apr. 7-11 |
Chapter 9, Pages 346-367 | ||
| Week 15 Apr. 14-18 |
But Is It Art? Chapter 10, Pages 370-382 |
Paper 2 draft due | |
| Week 16 Apr. 21-25 |
Chapter 10, Pages 382-416 | ||
| Week 17 Apr 28-May 2 |
Finals Week |