Please read and write a detailed, detailed, summary or outline by next Monday (3/3): Jim Pryor on how to write a philosophy paper; due via Turnitin:

http://www.jimpryor.net/teaching/guidelines/writing.html

More assignments posted soon.

Questions from today:

1.  What is the point (or points) of this class? What are we trying to do?

2.  Should other people accept or adopt your religious beliefs? Why or why not?

3.  Should you believe your own religious beliefs? Why or why not? COULD there be someone who should not accept or believe his or her religious beliefs? Who, when, how, why?

4.  If you went to a doctor with some symptoms, would you want the doctor to diagnose you on the basis of good reasons and evidence? If ‘yes,’ do you think religious beliefs should be held on the basis of good reasons, evidence and so forth?

a.  Big question behind this question: what are good reasons anyway, what is good evidence anyway??

5.  Can religious beliefs be good or bad? Are religious beliefs good or bad? Or good and bad? In what way(s)? How so? For who? When? Where?­

“MORALLY GOOD AND BAD”   

OR PRUDENTIALLY..

VS.

INTELLECTUALLY OR “EPISTEMOLOGICALY” OR RATIONALLY GOOD OR BAD..