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Friday |
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Week 1 |
8/25/2025 |
8/26/2025 |
8/27/2025 |
8/28/2025 |
8/29/2025 |
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Fall C Classes Begin |
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End of Add/Drop (8/31/25) |
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Week 2 |
9/1/2025 |
9/2/2025 |
9/3/2025 |
9/4/2025 |
9/5/2025 |
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Labor Day (No Classes) |
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Lectures & Notes |
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Canvas Readings |
Three Kinds of Philosophy of Religion Why the Philosophy of Religion Should No Longer Be Taught St. Anslem’s Proslogium
Chapters 2 and 3 Hume’s Response: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Part IX, Page 92-94 Princeton Professor: Gideon A. Rosen’s Notes on Anselm’s Argument Michael Tooley on Plantinga’s Defense of the Ontological Argument |
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Week 3 |
9/8/2025 |
9/9/2025 |
9/10/2025 |
9/11/2025 |
9/12/2025 |
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Sunday 9/14/23 Last Day to Apply for Graduation |
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Assignments |
Short Writing Assignment 2 |
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Lectures & Notes |
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Canvas Readings |
William Rowe on the Cosmological Argument (Canvas) A New Cosmological Argument (Canvas) |
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Week 4 |
9/15/2025 |
9/16/2025 |
9/17/2025 |
9/18/2025 |
9/19/2025 |
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Canvas Readings |
Evil and Omnipotence JL Mackie |
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Week 5 |
9/22/2025 |
9/23/2025 |
9/24/2025 |
9/25/2025 |
9/26/2025 |
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Canvas Readings |
You Bet Your Life - Lycan and Schlesinger William Clifford “The Ethics of Belief” William James “Will to Believe” The Right to Hope: Paul Tillich Kant’s Appropriation of Lampe’s God |
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Week 6 |
9/29/2025 |
9/30/2025 |
10/1/2025 |
10/2/2025 |
10/3/2025 |
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Lectures & Notes |
Existentialism and
the Leap of Faith Aquinas on the Nature of Faith |
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Video Lectures |
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Canvas Readings |
The Enlightenment Invention of Tertyllian's Credo - Harrison Philosophical Fragments, Concluding
Scientific Postscript – Excerpts Oakes Aquinas On The Nature of Faith - Lamont.pdf |
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Week 7 |
10/6/2025 |
10/7/2025 |
10/8/2025 |
10/9/2025 |
10/10/2025 |
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Assignments |
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Exam 1 |
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Lectures & Notes |
Definitions: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions Obscurity and Clear Thinking2: Natural Kinds, Nec & Suf Conditions, Definitions |
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Canvas Readings |
Wisdom and Nishitani on the Nature of Religion What is Philosophy of Religion Three Kinds of Philosophy of Religion |
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Week 8 |
10/13/2025 |
10/14/2025 |
10/15/2025 |
10/16/2025 |
10/17/2025 |
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Assignments |
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Lectures & Notes |
Ludwig Feuerbach - The Essence of
Christianity Chapter 2 Sigmund Freud on Religion - The
Future of an Illusion |
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Week 9 |
10/20/2025 |
10/21/2025 |
10/22/2025 |
10/23/2025 |
10/24/2025 |
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Assignments |
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Lectures & Notes |
Theology and Falsification |
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Video Lectures |
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Canvas Readings |
Religious
Language, Verification, Falsification, and Language Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gAH6SiofKU Religious language: Negative, Analogical or Symbolic https://alevelphilosophyandreligion.com/religious-language-negative-analogical-or-symbolic/ |
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Week 10 |
10/27/2025 |
10/28/2025 |
10/29/2025 |
10/30/2025 |
10/31/2025 |
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Assignments |
Paper 1a |
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Lectures & Notes |
Cataphatic Theology (Via Affirmativa) Apophatic Theology (Via Negativa) Analogical Predication Via Eminentia
(Mystical Union) |
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Canvas Readings |
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Week 11 |
3/21/22 Last Day to Drop
with a DR |
11/4/2025 |
11/5/2025 |
11/6/2025 |
11/7/2025 |
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Last Day to Drop with DR |
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Assignments |
Peer Review |
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Lectures & Notes |
Wittgenstein
and Religious Language Paul
Tillich on Symbolic Religious Language |
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Video Lectures |
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Canvas Readings |
Wittgenstein
and Religious Language Joost
Hengstmengel: ‘Philosophy to the glory of God’. Wittgenstein on God, religion
and theology Extract
6: Paul Tillich on Symbol (from Dynamics of Faith) https://peped.org/philosophicalinvestigations/extract-6-paul-tillich-on-symbol/ |
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Week 12 |
11/10/2025 |
11/11/2025 |
11/12/2025 |
11/13/2025 |
11/14/2025 |
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Veterans Day |
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Assignments |
Paper 1b Professional Venue Document |
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Lectures & Notes |
The Idea of the Holy |
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Video Lectures |
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Canvas Readings |
The Idea of the Holy Readings: Otto Text (Chapter 1-9) |
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Week 13 |
11/17/2025 |
11/18/2025 |
11/19/2025 |
11/20/2025 |
11/21/2025 |
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Assignments |
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Lectures & Notes |
The Idea of the Holy |
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Video Lectures |
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Canvas Readings |
The Idea of the Holy Readings: Otto Text (Chapter 1-9) |
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Week 14 |
11/24/2025 |
11/25/2025 |
11/26/2025 |
11/27/2025 |
11/28/2025 |
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Thanksgiving Day (No Classes) |
Thanksgiving Day (No Classes) |
Thanksgiving Break (No Classes) |
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Assignments |
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Lectures & Notes |
Breaking the Spell |
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Video Lectures |
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Canvas Readings |
Dennett
Text– Breaking the Spell Chapters
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Week 15 |
12/1/2025 |
12/2/2025 |
12/3/2025 |
12/4/2025 |
12/5/2025 |
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Last Day of Classes |
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Assignments |
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Lectures & Notes |
Breaking the Spell |
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Video Lectures |
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Canvas Readings |
Readings: Dennett Text – Breaking
the Spell Chapters 9- End of Text |
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Week 16 |
12/8/2025 |
12/9/2025 |
12/10/2025 |
12/11/2025 |
12/12/2025 |
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Final Exam Week |
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Week 17 |
12/15/2025 |
12/16/2025 |
12/17/2025 |
12/18/2025 |
12/19/2025 |
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Deadline to Submit Final Grades |
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