PHIL 425 Philosophy of Religion

This course works through the central philosophical questions that arise once you take theism seriously as a claim about reality: whether God's existence can be argued for, whether classical divine attributes are even coherent, and how to handle evil, hiddenness, and the rationality of faith. You'll spend the semester writing three essays, one expository, one evaluative, one original, and defending your readings in discussion rather than memorizing positions. It assumes you're already comfortable with analytic argumentation from earlier philosophy courses, and it pairs naturally with metaphysics and epistemology, since most debates here are really about modality, evidence, and moral realism in disguise.