This is an incomplete version of the syllabus I used to teach an introduction to philosophy course in spring 2016 at Collin College. I don't have records for some of the materials I provided that were not found in the course textbook.
- Course textbook: Jonathan E. Adler and Catherine Z. Elgin, Philosophical Inquiry: Classic and Contemporary Readings. ISBN: 9780872208674.
- Introduction
- Week 1: Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (provided outside the course textbook)
- Political Philosophy
- Week 2: John Rawls, "The Original Position and the Principles of Justice"
- Week 3: Robert Nozick, "A Libertarian Critique of Rawls"
- Week 4: G.A. Cohen, "Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain: How Patterns Preserve Liberty" (provided outside the course textbook)
- Epistemology
- Week 5: Plato, "Meno"
- Week 6: Edmund L. Gettier, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?"
- Week 7: Robert Nozick, "An Analysis of Knowledge"
- Week 8: Spring Break
- Ethics
- Week 9: Immanual Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
- Week 10: John Stuart Mill, "Understanding and Defending Utilitarianisms"
- Week 11: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Week 12: Christine M. Korsgaard, "What's Wrong with Lying?"
- Perception
- Week 13: George Berkeley selection (provided outside the course textbook)
- Week 14: David Hume selection (provided outside the course textbook)