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

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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