10 weeks is pretty short! Sounds like a good challenge. I was assuming 16 weeks while trying to lay out a simple curriculum last night, and I got the following structure:
I. The Problem of Doubt
Week 1: What are we doing here?
Week 2: Case studies in ignorance and error
Week 3: Case studies in irrationality and arbitrariness
Week 4: Evaluating arguments
Week 5: Descartes and certainty
Week 6: Reasoning with uncertainty
II. The Problem of Death
Week 7: Test case: The immortality of the soul
Week 8: How to want to change your mind
Week 9: Test case: The self
Week 10: Learning how to learn things
III. The Problem of Life
Week 11: Vagueness, ambiguity, and semantics
Week 12: Meta-ethical confusions
Week 13: Rationality and decision theory
Week 14: Existentialism, nihilism, and pragmatism
Week 15: “Know thyself” and discovering your values
10 weeks is pretty short! Sounds like a good challenge. I was assuming 16 weeks while trying to lay out a simple curriculum last night, and I got the following structure:
I. The Problem of Doubt
II. The Problem of Death
III. The Problem of Life