PHILOSOPHY OF RELGION

Friday:

Clark: Leibniz & Mackie
Clark: William Craig Lane and the rest of Stairs Ch. 2

Extra credit TODAY at GEORGIA STATE PHILOSOPHY DEPT:

True and False Pleasures in Plato’s Philebus
Richard Parry

Date: Friday, February 2, 2007
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: Philosophy Department – directions at http://atlantaphilosophy.blogspot.com/

NEXT TOPIC: DESIGN ARGUMENTS
Monday:

RULEBOOK: Chapters on “Arguments about Causes” and “Arguments from Analogy”
Setting up the traditional argument(s) from design:

• Clark: Paley: "The Watch and the WatchMaker" (questions from end of selection due)
• Stairs Ch. 3 (provides commentary on primary source reading)

EXTRA CREDIT:

Agnes Scott College's Ethics Program

Agnes Scott College's Ethics Program continues its 2006-07 speaker series, " Is Nature Ours? Ethics, Economics, and the Environment, " contintues with the following exciting events.

Monday, February 5, 2007
Peter G. Brown
" Becoming Citizens Worthy of the Earth "
7:30 p.m.
Evans Hall, terrace level, rooms ABC

Wednesday.
Criticisms of the argument:

• Clark: Hume & Dawkins (questions from end of selections due)
• and Stairs Ch. 3 (provides commentary on primary source reading)

Friday:
New versions of the argument(s):

• Clark: Denton & Collins (questions from end of selections due)
• and Stairs Ch. 3 (provides commentary on primary source reading)

how to answer the questions from the reading selections from Clark.
First, please type them. It's too hard to read and occasionally comment on things that are handwritten.
Second, please write out the questions or answer the questions in a manner that it's clear what the question is: i.e., make your respond a "self contained" response.
Third, make sure it's clear what the assignment is: e.g., write "Aquinas Questions" at the top or something like that.
Fourth, more thoughtful, more engaging, more thoughtful responses are better than brief ones!

Fifth, ones that integrate the discussion from Stairs are even better!
Finally, the writing should be clear, simple and straightforward. Although these responses are not argumentative essays, strictly speaking, here is a link to some information about how to improve your argumentative writing:

http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ejimpryor/general/writing.html