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Lecture Notes

WEEK # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES
1 What Kinds of Things are We?

Introduction (Class 2, and the day after Class 2)

Handout 1 - Arguments (PDF)
2 Handout 2 - Parfit 1 (PDF
3 Handout 3 - Parfit 2 (PDF)
4 Handout 4 - Parfit 3 (PDF)

Handout 5 - Parfit 4 (PDF)

5 Handout 6 - Parfit 5 (PDF)
6 Moral Relativism Handout 7 - Harman and Thomson (H&T) 1 (PDF)

Handout 8 - H&T 2 (PDF)

7 Handout 9 - H&T 3 (PDF)
8 Handout 10 - H&T 4 (PDF
9 Blackburn. "The World." (Distributed)
10 Relativism About Reality Handout 11 - Blackburn (PDF)
11 Handout 12 - Popper/Putnam (PDF)
12 Handout 13 - Kuhn 1 (PDF)
13 Handout 14 - Kuhn 2 (PDF)
14 Study Questions (PDF)

Handout 15 - Kuhn 3 (PDF)
15 Handout 16 - Alston (PDF)