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Subject: Philosophy (PHIL)
CRN: 46755
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 207
2020 Core Requirements Met:
Phil/Theo
OR
Integ/Humanities
This course will be a semester-long introduction to a number of issues relating to faith, doubt, and religious belief. We will focus on the following four questions: Are there good arguments for the existence of God? Are there good arguments against the existence of God? What is faith, and is it rational? And, is there good reason to believe that the faith of the Catholic Church is divinely revealed? In the course of thinking about these questions, we will discuss most or all of the following topics: (a) evidentialist approaches to religious belief, (b) Reformed Epistemology and Alvin Plantinga’s account of the rationality of religious belief, (c) the cosmological argument, (d) the fine-tuning argument, (e) Pascal’s Wager, (f) the argument from evil, (g) the problem of divine hiddenness, (h) the doctrine of Hell, and (i) arguments for the veracity of Catholicism. Heavy emphasis will be placed on the analysis and assessment of arguments. Prerequisite: PHIL 110, 115, or 197.
4 Credits