PHIL-101: Introduction to Philosophy

Dr. Kimbrough

Jacksonville University

First Six Weeks Summer Term 2018

Presentation Dates

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Date	Target	Presenter
5/15	Aristotle’s virtue ethics
5/15	Doris’s empirical critique of the concept of moral character
5/16	Kant’s deontological moral theory	Victoria
5/17	Mill’s utilitarian moral theory	Tristan
5/21	Greene’s brain studies of moral reasoning	Sani
5/22	Rachels’ defense of moral realism
5/23	Ayer’s theory that moral judgments only express emotions	Kelby
5/23	Mackie’s theory that all moral judgments are false	Michael
5/29	Doris and Stich’s use of empirical studies to object to moral realism
5/30	Paley’s argument from design
5/31	Pascal’s wager	Blessing
5/31	van Inwagen on the problem of evil	Euan
6/4	Freud or Dennett’s scientific atheism	Chase
6/4	Plantinga’s claim that religious belief is “properly basic”	Julia
6/5	Nielsen’s compatibilist theory of free will	Rayna
6/5	Chisholm’s libertarian theory of free will	Korede
6/6	Frankfurt’s theory of free will	Whitney
6/12	Descartes on the nature of the mind
6/13	Phelan’s materialist critique of dualism
6/18	Leibniz’s idealism	Petr
6/18	Jackson’s argument that consciousness is not physical	Yuan
6/19	Chalmers’ theory of consciousness
6/20	Churchland’s eliminative materialism