MONTGOMERY COLLEGE
READING SCHEDULE
PL 201  44210   Introduction to Philosophy
Room 213 South Building (SB)
Summer Session I   2008   MWH 6:30-9:25
William Soderberg, Professor
Office 518 Macklin Tower
Telephone (240) 567-7428; fax (240) 567-7463
e-mail: bill.soderberg@montgomerycollege.edu
website: www.montgomerycollege.edu/~bsoderbe
Office hours: 5:30-6:15 Mondays and Wednesdays; other times by appointment

TEXTBOOK: William Soderberg, The Game of Philosophy, University Press of America, 2000.
SUPPLIES: One pack of 3x5 cards

MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
May 28   The Rawls Game
May 29  pp. 1-22 Moral Relativism

Preview of Liberalism and Communitarianism

June 2  pp. 23-34 Plato, Augustine, Aristotle, Aquinas
June 4  pp. 35-43 Epicurus, Epictetus, Maimonides, Hobbes, Hume,

                               Locke and Jefferson
June 5 pp. 45-58 Kant, Bentham, Mill and Taylor, Marx,
                              Rawls
June 9  pp. 61-65 MacIntyre, Sandel, Taylor, and Mussolini
            African American Thought
            pp. 66-71 M.L. King, Cornel West, Bill Lawson, and Lucius Outlaw

Feminist Thought
             pp. 58-60 Simone de Beauvoir
             pp. 71-74 A. Baier, S. Ruddick, J. Grimshaw
June 11 Exam 1

METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY
June 12  pp. 75-81 Democritus, Pythagoras and Parmenides, Socrates and
                               Plato, Aristotle
June 16  pp. 81-96 Kant, Descartes, Hegel, Peirce, Dewey, Moore, Ayer
                              and Wittgenstein
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
June 18    pp. 103-110 Descartes, Pascal, James, Aquinas, Paley, Walker

MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
June 19 pp. 129-130  Introduction
            pp. 130-133 Confucianist
            pp. 134-136 Buddhist
June 23  pp. 136-140 Hindu
            pp. 140-142 African
            pp. 142-144 Islamic
June 25  pp. 145-146 Native American
            pp. 146-148 Latin American
            pp. 149-152 Epilogue

June 26  Final Exam