Preliminary Outline, Phl 591 Ph.D. Readings in
Philosophy, Fall 2005
Edward Wierenga
First meeting: Wednesday, September 7, 11:00-12:30, in RRL 442
No meeting: October 19, November 23
Last meeting: December 7
Augustine
Texts from Rel 230/Phl 268/468:
- On Free Choice of the Will
- selections from The Essential Augustine
Possible additional texts:
Possible Topics:
- Details of On Free Choice of the Will
- Foreknowledge and Free Will
- Paradox of Inquiry
- God and Time, nature of time
Secondary literature:
- Scott MacDonald, "The Paradox of Inquiry in Augustine's Confessions"
(unpublished)
- Gareth B. Matthews, Augustine (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005).
- William Rowe, “Augustine on Foreknowledge and Free Will,” Review
of Metaphysics 18 (1965): 356-363.
- Essays in Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann, eds., The Cambridge Companion
to Augustine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
- Essays in Gareth B. Matthews, ed., The Augustinian Tradition (Berkeley
and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999).
- Special Issue of Faith and Philosophy 20 (2003), papers by Baker,
Mann, others
Anselm
Texts from Rel 230/Phl 268/468
Possible additional texts:
Possible Topics:
- Ontological Argument
- Foreknowledge and Free Will
- Omnipresence
- God and Time
- Atonement
Secondary Literature:
- Marilyn McCord Adams, “Fides Quarenes Intellectum: St. Anselm’s
Method in Philosophical Theology,” Faith and Philosophy 9 (1992):
409-435.
- Marilyn McCord Adams, “Praying the Proslogion: Anselm’s
Theological Method,” in Thomas Senor, ed., The Rationality of Belief
and the Plurality of Faith (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995), 15-39.
- Marilyn McCord Adams, “Romancing the Good: God and the Self according
to St. Anselm of Canterbury,” in Gareth B. Matthews, ed., The Augustinian
Tradition (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999,
91-109.
- David Lewis, “Anselm and Actuality,” Noûs 4 (1970):
175-88.
- Alvin Plantinga, something from The Nature of God or God Freedom
and Evil.
- Essays in Brian Davies and Brian Leftow, eds., The Cambridge Companion
to Anselm (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Aquinas
Texts from Rel 230/Phl 268/468:
- Summa Theologica, I, 1-13 and 25
Possible Additional Texts:
- Summa Contra Gentiles, others
Possible Topics:
- The Five Ways for Proving God’s Existence
- Divine Attributes
Secondary Literature:
- Essays in Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump, eds. The Cambridge Companion
to Aquinas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Information about the undergraduate course, including suggested paper topics
and links to online resources, is available at: http://courses.ats.rochester.edu/wierenga/REL230/
Last
updated: 16 September, 2005
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© 2005 by Edward Wierenga