Overview
Description
Problems concerning the existence of God, religious knowledge, religious language, evil, immortality and the relation between religion and science.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- 3 credits in philosophy.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
3 credits in philosophy.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- state a thesis about a problem in the philosophy of religion, and provide evidence and philosophical argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
- explicate concepts that are central to philosophical writing on religion.
- distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships, in philosophical or theological texts that raise issues in the philosophy of religion.
- show what is at stake in an abstract debate in the philosophy of religion, and indicate how the debate is relevant to the theory or practice of religion.