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1. Papers are to be submitted in doc. format via the Turnitin link on the course blackboard website. Font must be no smaller than 12 point, and the paper should be double-spaced, with at least 1" margins all around. Be sure that your name appears on the top right-hand corner of the first page.
2. Keep a personal copy of any paper you submit.
3. The papers in this class are not research papers. If you do, however, make any use of the work of others in preparing your paper, be sure fully to document this. Failure to do so may constitute plagiarism; see Section 11 in SCampus for information on Academic Integrity violations. If you have any doubts about when and how to document the use of outside sources, see me.
1. In Part IV of the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (Popkin, pp. 30-33), Philo argues that we cannot explain the existence and order of the world as being caused by a design or plan of the world existing antecedently in God’s mind. Analyze this argument, and Cleanthes’s reply. Evaluate the result of the exchange. Be sure to explain how the issue of anthropomorphism (brought up in the earlier exchange in Part IV between Demea and Cleanthes) is connected with this argument between Cleanthes and Philo.
2. The last two paragraphs of Part I of Section 10 of Enquiry concerning Human Understanding contain Hume’s argument against the claim that we can have good reason to believe that a miracle has occurred. Explicate the argument, and assess its strength. Be sure to take into account the points made in the footnote to this passage, and also explain the bearing of the question of the rationality of belief in miracles on the general issue of the rationality of religious faith.
3. Kierkegaard (or rather, Johannes Climacus) argues in Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Bretall, pp. 201-207) that an existential system is impossible, just after having granted that a logical system is possible (Bretall pp. 196-201). Explicate the differences between a logical system and an existential system (in Kierkegaard’s understanding of these notions and then, taking the standpoint of a Hegelian philosopher, crtiticize Kierkegaard’s arguments. Explore the reply Kierkegaard might make to these criticisms, and evaluate the outcome of the debate.
General pointers:
A critical analysis of an argument or a passage from a text includes the following:
(a) a clear statement of the conclusion of the argument, and a brief explanation of its significance;
(b) identification of the main premises of the argument;
(c) a statement of one or two significant objections to the argument, together with a brief explanation of the problem it (they) raises (raise) for the argument and a sketch of the reasons one might give in support of the objection;
(d) a suggestion as to how the target of the objections might seek to rebut them;
(e) a final evaluation of the interchange: has the objection succeeded? Why or why not?
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