| Date | Topic | Sub-topic | Readings | Assignments due (SC = short commentary) |
| Wed May 31 | Philosophy of religion | Rachels 2.1 | ||
| The cosmological argument | Rachels 2.4 | |||
| The teleological argument | Rachels 2.2, 2.3 | |||
| Paley: Natural Theology | ||||
| Mon June 5 | The teleological argument | Hume: Dialogues concerning natural religion | SC | |
| Dennett: Show me the science | ||||
| The ontological argument | Rachels 2.5 | |||
| Anselm: Proslogion | ||||
| Writing philosophy papers | Rachels, pp.197-205 | |||
| Wed June 7 | Philosophy of religion (cont'd) | The problem of evil | Rachels, ch.3 | SC |
| John Mackie: Free Will and the problem of evil | ||||
| Pragmatism | James: The Will to Believe | |||
| Pascal's Wager | Encyclopaedia article on Pascal's Wager (optional) | |||
| Mon June 12 (with Jonathan Weisberg; no office hours) | The external world | Descartes | Rachels, ch.10 | SC |
| Descartes: Meditations | ||||
| Wed June 14 | Locke | Locke: Essay | SC; first paper | |
| Berkeley | Berkeley: Three dialogues | |||
| Stanford Encyclopaedia article on Berkeley | ||||
| Mon June 19 | Free will | Rachels, ch. 8 & 9 | SC | |
| The problem of induction | Hume: An enquiry concerning human understanding | |||
| Salmon: An encounter with David Hume | ||||
| Wed June 21 | Personal identity | Rachels, ch. 4&5 | SC | |
| Perry: A dialogue concerning personal identity and immortality | ||||
| Mon June 26 | The mind-body problem | Rachels, ch. 6 & 7 | Second paper | |
| Wed June 28 | Lycan: The mind-body problem (optional) | SC | ||
| Searle: Minds, brains and programs | ||||
| Meta-ethics | Plato: Euthyphro | |||
| Rachels: The challenge of cultural relativism | ||||
| Rachels: Subjectivism in ethics | ||||
| Mon July 3 | Exam revision | Third paper (optional) | ||
| Wed July 5 | Final exam |