9/2-9/2002:                 Notes: Ontological Argument for the Existence of God

8/27/2002:                   Introductory Session: Nature and Requirements of PHI 1103.
9/3/2002:                     Symposia: Arguments for and against the Existence of God, pages 1-32.
9/10/2002:                   Notes: Aquinas' Five Ways
9/10/2002:                   Symposia: Arguments for and against the Existence of God (continued), pages 33-69.
9/17/2002:                   Symposia: Personal Identity, pages 70-123.
9/24/2002:                   Notes: Free Will & Determinism
9/24/2002:                   Symposia: Personal Identity (continued) and Freedom & Determinism, pages 124-174.
10/1/2002:                   Symposia: Freedom & Determinism (continued) and Immanuel Kant's Moral Philosophy, pages 175-205.
10/8/2002:                   Midterm Information
10/8/2002:                   Symposia: Utilitarian Moral Philosophy, pages 206-39.
10/15/2002:                 MIDTERM EXAMINATION.
10/22/2002:                Critical Paper
10/22/2002:                 Symposia: Perspectives on Happiness, pages 240-265.
10/29/2002:                 Symposia: Perspectives on Happiness (continued) and Ethical Relativism, pages 266-304.
11/5/2002:                   Symposia: Ethical Relativism, pages 305-30 (continued).
11/12/2002:                 Symposia: Egoism (continued), pages 331-356.
11/19/2002:                 Symposia: Nietzsche, 357-62.
11/26/2002:                 Second Examination 
11/26/2002:                 Symposia: Libertarianism, 363-86.  CRITICAL PAPER DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS LECTURE.
12/3/2002:                   SECOND EXAMINATION (conclusion of the course).


Discussion Sections: Requirements and Written Work.

Every student must meet once a week in an assigned discussion section.  All students will be responsible for the material in John Chaffee's Thinking Critically, chapters 1-5 and 9-11.  Section instructors, i.e., teaching assistants enrolled for advanced degrees in the Department of Philosophy, will prepare a syllabus for their sections.  A student's grade in a discussion section counts for almost one third of the entire course and is based upon the average of quizzes or other exercises to be determined, prepared and graded by the instructor for each section.  Attendance in these sections is mandatory. Travels plans, personal problems, employment conflicts, defective automobiles and broken computers are not acceptable excuses for missing class or an assignment. The only exceptions for missing a class meeting without a penalty are (1) illness (documented by a note from a physician) and (2) judicial obligations, e.g., jury duty or responding to a subpoena (documented by an official, properly dated summons).

In addition to their duties in discussion sections, teaching assistants will evaluate and grade all other written assignments, i.e., the midterm examination, critical paper and second examination.  And when the need arises, they will assist students with questions or problems that concern the course.  Teaching assistants will maintain posted office hours and will, with enough advance notice, meet at a mutually convenient time for students who are not able to meet during regular office hours.