PHI 545 Business Ethics
Instructor: Keith Buhler
Email: keith.buhler@uky.edu
Twitter: keith_buhler
This course is a survey of central topics in the philosophy of religion, including faith and reason, religious experience, the existence of God, miracles, revelation, the problem of evil, providence and foreknowledge, survival after death, religious language, and religious diversity. Readings will be drawn primarily from contemporary authors and will focus on western theism, although there will also be some attention to eastern religions. After reading a variety of articles on the aforementioned topics, we will read a recent monograph dealing with arguments for the existence of God, Natural Signs and Knowledge of God by C. Stephen Evans.
Our goals are:
Your grade for the class will depend on your performance in reading and writing philosophical papers. Papers will be medium-to-short weekly papers, and one final paper. There is no test.
Assessment category / Percent of semester grade
Participation 10%
Weekly papers 60%
Term Paper 30%
At the end of each meeting, a question will be posed that a weekly paper will endeavor to answer. The answer ought to cite and interact with the week’s readings, and be sent to the instructor by Wednesday night 5pm.
The final term paper will be a topic synthesizing one of the major issues and presenting an argument (probably a critique) about one of the major positions.