Introduction to Philosophy 
WINTER 2008
| Franz Kiekeben |
| Office: DC 214 |
| Office hours: After class and by appt. |
| E-mail: kiekeben.1@osu.edu |
| DC 219 | |
| TR 8:00-10:15 pm |
COURSE OUTLINE
| TOPIC | READING ASSIGNMENT | |
| Introduction | ||
| Epistemology | “Perception” | |
| Brains in vats | pp. 1-7 | |
| Indirect Realism and Skepticism | pp. 7-14 | |
| Mind and matter | ||
| Dualism | “Dualism” | |
| Materialism | “Materialist Monism” | |
| Materialism (cont.) | ||
| Free will and determinism | The Implications of Determinism | |
| Determinism | pp. 3-7 | |
| Indeterminism | pp. 7-12 | |
| Libertarianism | pp. 12-16 | |
| Metaethics | “Ethics” | |
| Subjectivism | pp. 383-395 | |
| Divine Command Theory | pp. 406-410 | |
| Does God exist? | God? | |
| 2/26 | Cosmological arguments | pp. 3-9, 31-32, 41-46 |
| 2/28 | Teleological arguments | pp. 9-17 |
| 3/4 | Problem of evil | pp. 81-98 |