Resources

A 2002 course by Casey Haskins at Purchase College "introduces a few of the most important philosophical debates about religion from medieval times to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Among the main topics discussed will be: the problem of defining "religion" as a philosophical and a cultural phenomenon ; arguments for and against the existence of God; the problem of reconciling scientific and religious worldviews; the rationality of religious belief; and the question of what forms religion might, and should, and should not, take in our postmodern and global age."

A 2007 course by Joseph Magee at Sam Houston State University examines "the nature and meaning of religion and religious expression. Philosophical and scientific critiques of religious faith and experience are considered."

A course by Edith Wyschogrod at Rice University the perspectives of "Plato, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Hume, selected contemporary philosophers, the Vedanta, Jain and Buddhist perspectives will be considered" in response to key questions in religion and philosophy.

A 2010 course by Dana Hollander at McMaster University explores the "'phenomenological' tradition in 20th-century philosophy" with special attention to "questions concerning God or transcendence by . . . Jean-Luc Marion, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida."

A 2005 course by James Cutsinger at the University of South Carolina "inquiring into the meaning, foundations, scope, and limits (if any) of human cognition, asking ourselves what the bearing of this knowledge may be on the question of God."

A 2010 course by Gilbert Harman at Princeton University explores "the nature of morality as a whole . . . moral theories" such as "abortion and our obligations to others."

A 1999 course by Jeff Robbins at Syracuse University on existentialism and religion.

A 2009 course by Wesley Wildman at Boston University studies "contemporary forms of atheism and their historical, scientific, conceptual, and theological roots."