To a large extent the nature of these interactions remains to be explored. In support of this, students receive questions for each of the prescribed topics of the first half of the course. They have to address these questions in a presentation. The problem solving approach to philosophy encourages students to understand a question before trying an answer. This is crucial to creating personal interest and motivation to find answers.
Philosophy is taught too often as a set of answers without problems.
My focus requires an historical approach because the resolution or replacement of current problems may have taken centuries or millennia. Readings are selected from Plato, Plotinus, Ockham, Calvin, Bacon, Locke, Ayer, Hume, Hempel, Hooykaas, Barfield, Kuhn. The Natural Sciences in Christian Perspective. Downers Grove, Ill. 1986. This 300-level undergraduate course explores enduring philosophical and religious questions arising out of the presuppositions, methods and results of the natural sciences.