Course overview
Most people, historically and today, have religious beliefs of one kind or another. Those beliefs are often deeply important to their holders, providing the framework for their entire worldview. In this course, we will investigate a number of issues about religious worldviews about their content as well as about their reasonableness.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate understanding of some central philosophical debates in contemporary philosophy of religion
- Analyse contemporary and historical argumentative texts and extract the relevant views and arguments from them
- Accurately present philosophical arguments in written form and oral contexts
- Evaluate philosophical arguments about religion, providing appropriate grounds
- Identify and use relevant evidence to support hypotheses in philosophy of religion
- Present a sustained argumentative case in written form, addressing potential counterarguments and objections