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Lecture Notes

Lecture 1: Faith and Reason
Lecture 2: Introduction to the Cosmological Argument
Lecture 3: Plato, Aristotle, Al-Farabi
Lecture 4: ibn Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas
Lecture 5: Theism and Big Bang Cosmology
Lecture 6: Contemporary Versions of the Cosmological Argument: Taylor, Adler
Lecture 7: Contemporary Versions of the Cosmological Argument: Koons
Lecture 8: Critiques of the Cosmological Argument: Hume
Lecture 9: Critiques of the Cosmological Argument: Kant
Lecture 10: Metaphysics and Epistemology of Causation
Lectures 11 and 12: Do the Anthropic Coincidences Require an Explanation?
Lectures 13 and 14: Swinburne's Design Argument: Teleological Explanation, the Simplicity of Theism
Lecture 15: Critiques of the Design Argument: Hume
Lecture 16: Critiques of the Design Argument: Kant
Lecture 17: Critiques of the Design Argument: Mackie
Lecture 18: Theism vs. the Many-Worlds Hypothesis
Lecture 19: The Problem of Evil: Preliminaries
Lecture 20: Tough-minded and Tender-hearted Responses to the Problem of Evil
Lecture 21:The Free Will Defense
Lecture 22: Mackie's Critique of the Free Will Defense, and the Question of Divine Responsibility



Contemporary Christian Philosophy
Lecture notes from Dr. Koons' Contemporary Christian Philosophy course (Phl 327) at the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2000.

Lecture Notes

Lecture #1: Christian Philosophy
Lecture #2: Schaeffer and Chesterton on Reason
Lecture #3: Lewis on Naturalism
Optional reading: Robert C. Koons, The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism. Forthcoming in Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal, edited by J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig (Routledge, UK, 2000).
Lecture #4: Plantinga on Naturalism
Lecture #5: Chesterton on Aquinas
Lecture #6: Pieper on Christian Philosophy
Lectures #7/8: Gilson on Idealism & Realism
Lecture #9: MacIntyre on the Failure of Enlightenment Morality
Glossary for Lewis's The Abolition of Man
Lectures #10/11: Lewis on Objective Value
Lecture #12: Schaeffer & Mackie on God & Morality
Lecture #13: Moral Realism and God
Lecture #14: Proving God's Existence/ Teleological Arguments
Lecture #15: Objections to Design
Lecture #16: Cosmological (First Cause) Arguments
Lecture #17: The Rationality of Religious Belief
Lecture #18: The Nature of Divine Providence
Lectures #19/20: The Nature of Divine Providence, II
Lecture #21: Atheistic Arguments from Evil
Lecture #22: God's Moral Goodness
Lecture #23: The Free Will Defense
Lecture #24: Personal Identity
Lecture #24 (NEW): Non-Moral Evils 2001


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