PHIL 120 - Faith, Doubt, and Mystery: Philosophy of Religion

H, 4 credits. E.

An investigation into the relations between religious faith and reason. Arguments for the existence of God will be examined, as will challenges to religious belief found in the writings of such thinkers as Hume, Clifford, Freud and Hick and in contemporary cognitive science of religion. The course will also investigate the nature of religious experiences and problems that religious diversity poses to the rationality of religious belief.