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GEOFF PYNN

Teaching
​intro to philosophy online

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).

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)
​handout | supplementary video | reading: 29-35 (Roger White)

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)
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    • Conditionals
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