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Join an esteemed professor of philosophy in exploring the question of divine existence by using the tools of epistemology.

Syllabus

  • 01: What is Philosophy?
  • 02: What is Religion?
  • 03: What is Philosophy of Religion?
  • 04: How is the Word "God" Generally Used?
  • 05: How Do Various Theists Use the Word "God"?
  • 06: What is Knowledge?
  • 07: What Kinds of Evidence Count?
  • 08: What Constitutes Good Evidence?
  • 09: Why Argue for the Existence of God?
  • 10: How Ontological Argument Works
  • 11: Why Ontological Argument is Said to Fail
  • 12: How Cosmological Argument Works
  • 13: Why Cosmological Argument is Said to Fail
  • 14: How Teleological Argument Works
  • 15: How Teleological Argument Works (continued)
  • 16: Why Teleological Argument is Said to Fail
  • 17: Divine Encounters Make Argument Unnecessary
  • 18: Divine Encounters Require Interpretation
  • 19: Why is Evil a Problem?
  • 20: Taking Evil Seriously
  • 21: Non-Justificatory Theodicies
  • 22: Justifying Evil
  • 23: Justifying Natural Evil
  • 24: Justifying Human Evil
  • 25: Evidence is Irrelevant to Faith
  • 26: Groundless Faith is Irrelevant to Life
  • 27: God is Beyond Human Grasp, But That's O.K.
  • 28: Transcendental Talk is "Sound and Fury"
  • 29: Discourse in an Intentionalist Paradigm
  • 30: Evaluating Paradigms
  • 31: Choosing and Changing Paradigms
  • 32: Language Games and Theistic Discourse
  • 33: Fabulation—Theism as Story
  • 34: Theistic Stories, Morality, and Culture
  • 35: Stories, Moral Progress, and Culture Reform
  • 36: Conclusions and Signposts
  • By This Professor

Taught by

James Hall, Ph.D.

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