Learn to think clearly, shun fallacies, and reach your own conclusions as you confront the questions that have puzzled generations of philosophers.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: How Do We Do Philosophy?
- 02: Why Should We Trust Reason?
- 03: How Do We Reason Carefully?
- 04: How Do We Find the Best Explanation?
- 05: What Is Truth?
- 06: Is Knowledge Possible?
- 07: What Is the Best Way to Gain Knowledge?
- 08: Do We Know What Knowledge Is?
- 09: When Can We Trust Testimony?
- 10: Can Mystical Experience Justify Belief?
- 11: Is Faith Ever Rational?
- 12: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
- 13: What Is God Like?
- 14: How Could God Allow Moral Evil?
- 15: Why Would God Cause Natural Evil?
- 16: Are Freedom and Foreknowledge Compatible?
- 17: Do Our Souls Make Us Free?
- 18: What Does It Mean to Be Free?
- 19: What Preserves Personal Identity?
- 20: Are Persons Mere Minds?
- 21: Are Persons Just Bodies?
- 22: Are You Really You?
- 23: How Does the Brain Produce the Mind?
- 24: What Do Minds Do, If Anything?
- 25: Could Machines Think?
- 26: Does God Define the Good?
- 27: Does Happiness Define the Good?
- 28: Does Reason Define the Good?
- 29: How Ought We to Live?
- 30: Why Bother Being Good?
- 31: Should Government Exist?
- 32: What Justifies a Government?
- 33: How Big Should Government Be?
- 34: What Are the Limits of Liberty?
- 35: What Makes a Society Fair or Just?
- 36: What Is the Meaning of Life?
Taught by
David K. Johnson
