In Summer 2018, I'm developing an online introduction to philosophy. The textbook is the Norton Introduction to Philosophy, edited by Rosen, Byrne, Cohen, Harman, and Shiffrin.
The videos are closed captioned, and they are designed to be accessible as audio lectures (i.e., all important content displayed on screen is also spoken).
The videos are closed captioned, and they are designed to be accessible as audio lectures (i.e., all important content displayed on screen is also spoken).
Module 1: Tools for Philosophy
handout | reading: xxxiii - xxxviii
handout | reading: xlviii - li
Module 2: The Ontological and Cosmological Arguments
handout | reading: 3-7
handout | reading: 8-9 (Anselm)
handout | reading: 13-18 (Thomas Aquinas)
Module 3: The Design and Fine-Tuning Arguments
handout | reading: 20-27 (William Paley)
Module 4: The Problem of Evil
handout | reading: 7-8, 36-40 (Louise Antony)
handout | reading: 41-45 (Louise Antony)
handout | no new reading
Module 5: Mind and Matter
handout | reading: 307-311
handout | reading: 312-319 (Descartes
handout | reading: 320 (Elisabeth of Bohemia)
Module 6: Personal Identity
handout | reading: 499-504
handout | reading: 504-511 (Locke)
Modules 7 and 8: Race and Gender
reading: 543-549, 560-570 (Sally Haslanger), 571-578 (Quayshawn Spencer), 581-589 (Elizabeth Barnes)
Module 9: Abortion
no new reading
reading: 706-712 (Don Marquis)
reading: 697-704 (Judith Jarvis Thomson)
Module 10: Right and Wrong
reading: 784-789
reading: 790-798 (John Stuart Mill)