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Mind, Matter and God
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Schedule of Assignments, Readings and Important Dates
 

Students are advised that travel arrangements that conflict with the University calendar or the class schedule do not serve as excuses for missed classes or assignments unless excused by the Dean of Students.

All readings are in Philosophical Reflections on Mind, Matter and God , arranged by J. Christopher Maloney: Pearson Custom Publishing (second edition or later, 2003 or later).

The table below shows the dates for examinations and reading assignments as well as various other important dates. All dates are subject to revision.

 

Effective: August 25, 2008
Date Assignment
8/26/2008 Read syllabus and review course website
8/28/2008 Lecture on Presocratics (no reading assignment); last day to add this class is 9/2/2008
9/2/2008 Lecture on Presocratics (no reading assignment); last day to add this class is 9/2/2008
9/4/2008 Read Plato's Apology
9/9/2008 Read Plato's Crito
9/11/2008 Read Plato's Phaedo
9/16/2008  
9/18/2008 Read Plato's Republic (excerpted - pages 136-141); last day to drop without a grade is 9/19/2008
9/23/2008 Read Plato's Meno
9/25/2008  
9/30/2008 Review
10/2/2008 First Examination
10/7/2008 Read Aristotle's Categories and Physics
10/9/2008  
10/14/2008 Read Aristotle's Metaphysics and On the Soul
10/16/2008 Last day to drop with a W is October 17
10/21/2008 Read Augustine's Confessions
10/23/2008  
10/28/2008 Read Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy; last day to drop with a W
10/30/2008  
11/4/2008 Review 
11/6/2008 Second Examination
11/11/2008 Veterans Day Holiday (no class)
11/13/2008 Read Anselm's Prosologion and Gaunilo and Anselm: Debate
11/18/2008 Read Aquinas' Summa Theologica
11/20/2008 Read Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy (through the sixth meditation)
11/25/2008  
11/27/2008 Thanksgiving Holiday (no class)
12/2/2008 Read Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (through the first dialogue)
12/4/2008  
12/9/2008 Review
12/16/2008 Final Examination from 8:00am to 10:00am in Social Sciences 100