NEIL W. TENNANT

tennant.9@osu.edu

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Professor
Department of Philosophy


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.

WeekMondayWednesdayFriday
0 Lecture 0F
The Nature of Philosophy
1 Lecture 1M
The Philosophical Temperament		 Lecture 1W
Important Opposing "-Isms" 		Lecture 1F
The Role of Deduction
in Mathematics and Science
2 Lecture 2M
Anselm's Ontological Argument
for the Existence of God 		Lecture 2W
Criticisms of the
Ontological Argument 		Lecture 2F
Aquinas's Cosmological Argument
for the Existence of God
3 Lecture 3M
Criticisms of the Cosmological Argument		 Lecture 3W:
The Argument from Design for the Existence of God		 Lecture 3F:
Criticisms of the Argument from Design
4 See Lecture 3F See Lecture 3F See Lecture 3F
5 Lecture 5M:
Rational Decision-Making and Pascal's Wager		 Lecture 5W:
Criticisms of Pascal's Wager		 Mid-term exam
6 Lecture 6M:
Exposition of the Argument from Evil,
against the Existence of God 		Lecture 6W:
Responses to the Argument from Evil 		Lecture 6F:
The Mind-Body Problem
7 Lecture 7M:
Logical Behaviorism 		Lecture 7W:
Supervenience 		Veterans' Day
8 Lecture 8M:
Functionalism		 Lecture 8W:
Functionalism, cont.		 Lecture 8F:
Functionalism, cont.
9 Lecture 9M:
Turing Machines 		Lecture 9W:
Turing Machines, cont. 		Columbus Day observed
10 Lecture 10M:
Criticisms of Functionalism 		Lecture 10W:
Criticisms of Functionalism (cont.)		 Lecture 10F:
The Paradoxes