NEIL W. TENNANT

tennant.9@osu.edu

If you email me, please use the header PHIL 101: [YOURNAME].

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Professor
Department of Philosophy

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Lecture summaries for PHIL101: Introduction to Philosophy

Note: These 'summaries' might contain material not covered in the actual lecture, owing to the give-and-take in the lecture class.

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Week	Monday	Wednesday
0		Lecture 0W The Nature of Philosophy
1	Lecture 1M The Philosophical Temperament	Lecture 1W Important Opposing "-Isms"
2	Lecture 2M The Role of Deduction in Mathematics and Science Anselm's Ontological Argument for the Existence of God	Lecture 2W Criticisms of the Ontological Argument
3	Lecture 3M Aquinas's Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God Criticisms of the Cosmological Argument	Lecture 3W The Argument from Design for the Existence of God
4	Lecture 4M Criticisms of the Argument from Design	Lecture 4W Exposition of the Argument from Evil, against the Existence of God Responses to the Argument from Evil
5	Lecture 5M Rational Decision-Making and Pascal's Wager Criticisms of Pascal's Wager	Mid-term exam
6	Lecture 6M Some Highlights of Descartes' Thinking Exposition of Cartesian Dualism	Lecture 6W Ryle's Critique of Cartesian Dualism
7	Lecture 7M Logical Behaviorism	Lecture 7W Cartesian Scepticism
8	Lecture 8M Cartesian Scepticism, cont.	Lecture 8W The Mind-Body Problem
9	Lecture 9M The Mind-Body Problem	Lecture 9W Functionalism	Columbus Day observed
10	Lecture 10M Turing Machines	Lecture 10W Criticisms of Functionalism