Introduction to Philosophy 101 (COMPLETE COURSE MATERIALS + FULL CANVAS SHELL)

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This Complete CANVAS Course Export Package (.imscc) includes:

✓ Syllabus

✓ Free Digital Readings embedded throughout

✓ 12 Complete Modules organized by Major Themes in Philosophy w/ Lectures

✓ 10 Discussion / Homework Assignments w/ Peer Review & Grading Rubrics

✓ Scaffolded Writing Assignment w/ Instructions, Examples, & Grading Rubrics)

✓ 10 Self-grading Quizzes (multiple choice & true/false)

✓ Extra Credit Opportunities

✓ 12 Scheduled Announcements

✓ 19 Pages of Accompanying Media embedded throughout

Topics: A Complete Introduction to Philosophy

1. Introduction to Philosophy & Logic
2. Philosophy of Religion - Belief
3. Philosophy of Religion - Doubt
4. Epistemology - Knowledge
5. Epistemology - Truth
6. Metaphysics - Mind & Body
7. Metaphysics - Free Will
8. Ethics - Assessing Actions
9. Ethics - Assessing Agents
10. Aesthetics
11. Existentialism - Meaning of Life

DETAILS:

• Philosophy: what it is, the value of philosophy, and and how the philosophical theories covered may/may not intersect with contemporary life
• Logic: assessing arguments
• Deductive (validity, soundness) vs. inductive (strength, cogency)
• Reductio ad absurdum
• Argument by analogy
• The Socratic Method
• Infinite regress
• Epistemology: 
• Rationalism vs. empiricism (a priori vs. a posteriori)
• Plato’s divided line (allegory of the cave), 
• Cartesian methodological doubt, 
• Locke’s arguments against innate knowledge and tabula rasa
• Kantian synthesis
• Skepticism vs. relativism
• Subjective idealism, moderate skepticism
• Argument against induction
• Feminist standpoint theory
• Philosophy of Religion: 
• Arguments for God’s existence (cosmological, teleological, ontological, argument from miracles/religious experience), 
• The problem of evil and theodicies, 
• Pragmatic faith, and 
• Eastern religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, and Daoism)
• Metaphysics: 
• The mind-body problem (types of dualism, materialism, and identity theory), 
• Thought experiments and what they demonstrate (philosophical zombies, what it is like to be a bat, homunculi-headed robot/China brain, Turing test, Chinese room), and 
• Free will vs. determinism (libertarianism, incompatibilism, compatibilism, hard determinism)
• Axiology: 
• Aesthetics: defining art (representation, expression, formalism, undefined), aesthetic value (objective vs. subjective), feminist and controversial art
• Existentialism: what is meant by ‘meaning’, optimism vs. pessimism, internal vs. external meaning, objective vs. subjective internal meaning
• Ethics: normative vs. descriptive, objective vs. relative (implications of relativism), action-based vs. agent-based theories, applying the theories to thought experiments
• Consequentialism: ethical egoism vs. psychological egoism, utilitarianism (hedonic calculus, higher vs. lower pleasures)
• Deontology: divine command theory, Kantian (categorical imperative)
• Virtue ethics: Aristotelian vs. Confucian
• Feminist care ethics and the role of emotions

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