Paper instructions:
Questions in Philosophy. P. #” Those who do not use references when and where required will receive an F.
Write a paper 500-600 words in length on the topic below. (The word count should not include any bibliography or footnotes.) On the first page, put your name, your section number, and the word count. Please use page numbers. Be sure to address those points from the readings and lectures which are most important to your argument, but also be sure to make some original contribution to the discussion. While it is fine to draw on the materials from the lessons, be sure to present the material in your own way and in your own words. Use all of the knowledge you have gained thus far in the course about analyzing, evaluating and critiquing arguments. You must also follow the assignment as it is described here. Failure to do so will lower your grade.
Paper Topic: Choose only one of the following.
1. Reflecting on the foundationalism of both Descartes and Hume, explain in detail what their foundationalist methods have in common and what criticism Sober offers. Do you agree with Sober’s criticisms? Why or why not?
2. Consider either one of Aquinas’s cosmological arguments for the existence of God or one of the arguments from design for the existence of God. What criticism does Sober offer of the argument you are considering? Do you agree with Sober’s criticisms? Why or why not?
Any additional sources as well as the sources you use from the class and our text should be properly referenced using one reference method from a standard writing style guide.