Lecture notes and bibliography from Dr. Koons' Western Theism course (Phl 356) at the University of Texas at Austin, Spring 1998.Bibliography
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
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