Class Notes Index

Introduction to Philosophy

• General Introduction
• Plato's Apology
• William Clifford
• John Locke
• Russel on Philosophy
• Timeline of Western Intellectual History

Introduction to Epistemology

• General Introduction
• Platonic Rationalism
• Excerpt from Plato's Republic
• Cartesian Rationalism
• Lockean Empericism
• Berkelean Immaterialism
• Humean Empericism

Introduction to Metaphysics

• General Introduction
• The Ontological Argument for God's existence
• The Cosmological Argument for God's existence
• The Teleological Argument for God's existence
• Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
• Rene Descartes on Substance Dualism
• An Overview of the Problem of Mind-Body dualism
• Churchland on the Problem of Mind-Body dualism

Introduction to Ethics

• General Introduction
• Relativism vs. Objectivism
• Virtue Ethics
• Deontological Ethics
• Utilitarian Ethics