Direct Instruction Courses

Survey of issues concerning in ultimate reality, human knowledge, and personal responsibility. Topics: proofs about God’s existence, theories of fundamental reality, of knowledge, of personal identity and the self, and of free will and determinism.
Abstract reasoning and systems, natural deduction, and symbolic representations fo arguments.
Ethical theories about the good life, good character, good actions, and application thereof to daily life. Topics include:
Ethical theories about the good life, good character, good actions, and application thereof to daily life. Topics include:
Practical reasoning, inferences about categories, and informal and scientific reasoning. Topics: arguments, diagramming arguments, formal and informal fallacies, argument validity and invalidity, Venn diagrams, inference to the best explanation.
Survey of up-to-date issues concerning values, ethics, and policies for public and private life.
Brief survey of ethical theories and a diverse application to professions, such as informed consent, conscientious objection, confidentiality, lying, whistle-blowing, discrimination, corporate obligations to society and the environment.
Philosophy of Religion