Spring 2023: Location TBA
Dates/times: TBA

Instructor: Ted Parent
Email: ted.parent@nu.edu.kz
Office: Block 1, rm. 269
Office Hours: TBA

Syllabus

Books:

    Peterson, M. et al. (Eds.), The Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, 4th edition. Oxford UP, 2010.
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Essential Writings. Orbis, 2001.

Additional Materials:

   Handout on Pessimism about Argument
   Sheiman, ch. 2 of An Atheist Defends Religion
   Packet of primary sources for Week 1
   Thich Nhat Hanh, Getting Rid of Our Concepts
    Packet of primary sources for Week 2
   Draper, Critique of the Kalām Cosmological Argument (excerpts)
   Collins, The Anthropic Teleological Argument
   Swinburne, The Argument from Design
   Aquinas, Whether God is Altogether Simple?
   Ruse, Reply to Peterson (excerpt)
   O'Malley, excerpt from Meeting the Living God, 2nd ed.
   Worrall, Science Discredits Religion
   Frances, The Atheist Argument from Outrageousness
   Kushner, excerpts from the Intro and Ch. 1 of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
   Ghaly, Evil and Suffering in Islam
   Kushner, Ch: 8: What Good is Religion? (excerpts) from When Bad Things Happen to Good People
   Selections from the Pali Canon: Buddhism as Non-Dogmatic
   Wright, Note to Readers
   Selections from the Pali Canon: Buddha on Well-Being
   Gunaratana, ch. 1 of Mindfulness in Plain English
        Optional: Duron, 19 Science-Backed Reasons to Meditate
        Optional: Lesson in Simple Meditation
        Optional: Lesson in Vipassana Meditation
        Optional: Handout: Advice on Meditation
   Selections from the Pali Canon: Not-Self and "Emptiness"
   The Heart Sutra
   Video: The Ship of Theseus
       Optional: Handout: Buddhist Political Philosophy

Resources:

    Handout on writing philosophy
    List of argument fallacies