Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week 1

1/8/2024

1/9/2024

1/10/2024

1/11/2024

1/12/2024

 

 Classes Begin

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Lectures & Notes

Welcome

Logic: Formal and Informal

Video Lectures

 

Canvas Readings

 

Week 2

1/15/2024

1/16/2024

1/17/2024

1/18/2024

1/19/2024

 

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

University Closed

Last Day to Drop without Incurring a Financial Liability

 

 

 

Assignments Due

 

 

 Quiz 1

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Argument Analysis: Argument for Vegetarianism  

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 3

1/22/2024

1/23/2024

1/24/2024

1/25/2024

1/26/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Short Writing Assignment 1:

Paraphrase

 

 Quiz 2

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Plato’s Metaphysics and Epistemology

Video Lectures

 

Canvas Readings

 

Week 4

1/29/2024

1/30/2024

1/31/2024

2/1/2024

2/2/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Short Writing Assignment 2:

Diagram Sentences

 

  Quiz 3

 

Lectures & Notes

Aristotle’s Metaphysics and  Epistemology

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 5

2/5/2024

2/6/2024

2/7/2024

2/8/2024

2/9/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Short Writing Assignment 3

Writing Essays Questions

 

  Exam 1

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Descartes Epistemology and Metaphysics

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 6

2/12/2024

2/13/2024

2/14/2024

2/15/2024

2/16/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Short Writing Assignment 4: Identify  Ambiguity

 

Quiz 4

 

 

Lectures & Notes

John Locke’s Metaphysics and Epistemology

Berkeley’s Metaphysics and Epistemology

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 7

2/19/2024

2/20/2024

2/21/2024

2/22/2024

2/23/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Short Writing Assignment 5:

Identify Premises and Conclusions #1

 

 Quiz 5

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Hume: Problem of Induction

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 8

2/26/2024

2/27/2024

2/28/2024

2/29/2024

3/1/2024

 

Spring Break – University Closed

Assignments Due

 

 

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 9

3/4/2024

3/5/2024

3/6/2024

3/7/2024

3/8/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Short Writing Assignment 6:

Identify Premises and Conclusions #2

 

 Quiz 6

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Kant and the Synthetic A Priori

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 10

3/11/2024

3/12/2024

3/13/2024

3/14/2024

3/15/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Short Writing Assignment 7:

Fragment and Schematize

 

 Quiz 7

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Introduction to Ethics

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 11

3/18/2024

3/19/2024

3/20/2024

3/21/2024

3/22/2024

 

Last Day to Drop with a DR

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Short Writing Assignment 8:

Fragment and Schematize 2

 

 Exam 2

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Divine Command Theory

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 12

3/25/2024

3/26/2024

3/27/2024

3/28/2024

3/29/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Short Writing Assignment 9:

Job Interview

 

 Quiz 8

 

 

Lectures & Notes

 Logical Positivism and Emotivism

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 13

4/1/2024

4/2/2024

4/3/2024

4/4/2024

4/5/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Paper 1a

(Upload to Canvas before Midnight) 

 

Quiz 9

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Aristotle’s Ethics

Epicurus

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 14

4/8/2024

4/9/2024

4/10/2024

4/11/2024

4/12/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Peer Review of Paper 1

(Upload to Canvas before Midnight)

 

 Quiz 10

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Utilitarianism

Hume’s Ethics

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 15

4/15/2024

4/16/2024

4/17/2024

4/18/2024

4/19/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

Paper 1b (Upload to Canvas before Midnight)

 

Short Writing Assignment 10: Extemporaneous

 

 

Lectures & Notes

Kantian Ethics

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 16

4/22/2024

4/23/2024

4/24/2024

4/25/2024

4/26/2024

 

Final Exam Week

Assignments Due

 

 

 

 

 

Lectures & Notes

 

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings

 

Week 17

4/29/2024

4/30/2024

5/1/2024

5/2/2024

5/3/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments Due

 

 

 

 

 

Lectures & Notes

 

Video Lectures

Canvas Readings