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What Kinds of Things are We?
Introduction (2 sessions) |
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First Handout - Arguments (PDF) |
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2 |
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Perry. Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality ("The First Night.")
Parfit. Reasons and Persons. Chap. 10.
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Second Handout - Parfit 1 (PDF) |
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Paper 1 Topics Distributed (first class of the week) (PDF) |
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3 |
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Perry. Dialogue ("The Second Night," "The Third Night.")
Parfit. Chap. 11.
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Third Handout - Parfit 2 (PDF) |
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Paper 1 Due ( a day after second class of the week) |
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4 |
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Parfit. Chap. 12, 13. |
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Fourth Handout - Parfit 3 (PDF)
Fifth Handout - Parfit 4 (PDF)
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Paper 2 Topics Distributed (first class of the week) (PDF) |
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5 |
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Parfit. Chap. 14, 15. |
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Sixth Handout - Parfit 5 (PDF) |
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First Debate (second class of the week) (PDF)
Paper 2 Due (two days after second class of the week)
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Moral Relativism |
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Harman and Thomson. Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity. Chap. 6. |
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Seventh Handout - Harman and Thomson 1 (PDF)
Eighth Handout - Harman and Thomson 2 (PDF)
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Harman and Thomson. Chap. 7. |
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Ninth handout - Harman and Thomson 3 (PDF) |
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Paper 3 Topics Distributed (second class of the week) (PDF) |
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8 |
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Harman and Thomson. Chap. 1-5. |
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Tenth handout - Harman and Thomson 4 (PDF) |
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Harman and Thomson. Chap. 9, 10. |
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Blackburn. "The World." (Distributed)
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Second Debate (second class of the week) (PDF)
Paper 3 Due (a day after second class of the week)
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Relativism about Reality |
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Eleventh Handout - Blackburn (PDF)
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Popper. Logic of Scientific Discovery. Selections.
Putnam. "The 'corroboration' of theories." (Distributed)
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Twelfth Handout - Popper/Putnam (PDF) |
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Kuhn. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chap. 1-5. |
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Thirteenth Handout - Kuhn 1 (PDF)
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Paper 4 Topics Distributed (first class of the week) (PDF) |
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13 |
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Kuhn. Chap. 6-13, plus postscript. |
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Fourteenth Handout - Kuhn 2 (PDF)
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14 |
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Kuhn. Chap. 6-13, plus postscript. (Review in recitation section, a day after class 2 of the week) |
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Study Questions (PDF)
Fifteenth Handout - Kuhn 3 (PDF)
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Third Debate
Review in recitation section (a day after class 2)
Paper 4 Due (a day after second class) |
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Alston. "Yes, Virginia, There Is A Real World." |
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Sixteenth Handout - Alston (PDF) |
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