Introducing the philosophy of religion

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Introducing the philosophy of religion provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 12 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • In this free course, Introducing the philosophy of religion, Timothy Chappell, Professor of Philosophy, asks what the words 'God' and 'religion' mean, and what it means to ask philosophical ...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • Getting straight what we mean
    • Two provisional definitions
    • Improving the definitions
    • Questions about religion and God: a survey
    • Philosophical and non-philosophical questions
    • Argument or blind faith?
    • So who’s right: Ada, Bert or Carl?
    • Faith and reason
    • Collecting arguments for God’s existence
    • Better arguments for and against God’s existence
    • Arguments from ‘The way the world is’
    • Aquinas’s ‘Second Way’
    • The structure of arguments
    • Finding the shape of Aquinas’s argument
    • Evaluating Aquinas’s argument
    • Conclusion
    • References
    • Acknowledgements