Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy 104,
Ted Sider
, Spring, 2023
Van Dyck 211, T/F 10:20-11:40
office hrs T/F 9:30-10 & by appt (in 106 Somerset St, Rm 526)
Link to Canvas site
TAs
Diego Arana (sections 3, 4, da689@scarletmail.rutgers.edu)
Rose Fonth (sections 6, 8, rose.fonth@rutgers.edu)
Kayla Jackson (sections 5, 7, kkj34@scarletmail.rutgers.edu)
Audrey Powers (sections 1, 2, amp553@scarletmail.rutgers.edu)
Announcements
Paper 2, first draft, due at noon on April 19
Paper 2, final draft, due at noon on May 4
Exam 2 (noncumulative), in our regular classroom at 9am on May 10
Downloads
Revised
Syllabus
Late papers policy
Midterm study guide
Exam 2 study guide
Handouts
Handout: Preliminaries
Handout: Cosmological and design arguments
Handout: The problem of evil
Handout: Pascal's wager
Handout: Introduction to free will and determinism
Handout: Hard determinism
Handout: Libertarianism
Handout: Wolf on freedom
Handout: Descartes
Handout: Chisholm - problem of the criterion
Handout: Plantinga
Handout: Rinard
Handout: Introduction to value theory
Handout: Is ethics objective?
Handout: Singer and the needy
Handout: Wolf on moral saints
Handout: Thomson on abortion
Handout: Marquis on abortion