Handouts, Presenters, and Due Dates:  PHIL3370 Metaphysics SP08

 

 

Reading(s)

 

Links to Handouts

Presenter

Evaluative Critiques

Exam Dates & Portfolio Deadlines

01/10 Intro Bits

Plutarch: The Ship of Theseus

 

Novy

 

X

 

01/14

Taylor Ch. 12: Polarity

Borges: The Library of Babel

 

 

Novy

 

X

 

01/16

Taylor Ch. 1: The Need for Metaphysics

Aristotle: Metaphysics

 

Novy

X

 

01/18

Beauvoir: ““Woman as Other” from The Second Sex

 

Novy

1.

2.

 

01/21                                  MLK. Holiday                                   MLK. Holiday                                             MLK. Holiday

01/23 Minds/ Bodies

 

Taylor Ch. 2: Persons and Bodies

Taylor Ch. 3: Interactionism

 

Novy

 

X

 

01/25

Plato: Phaedo

Novy

1.

2.

 

01/28

Aristotle: De Anima

Novy

1. Goss

2. Wood

 

01/30

Descartes: Second Meditation

Bisson: They’re Made out of Meat

Novy

1. Mann

2.

 

02/01

Taylor Ch. 4: The Mind as a Function of the Body

Borges: Borges and I

 

Novy

X

 

02/04

Locke: Of Identity & Diversity

Novy

1. Brazil

2. Norris

 

02/06

Nagel: What is it like to be a bat?

 

Ridings

1.

2.

 

02/08

Dennett: Where am I?

 

Norris

1. Scott

2.

Choose Topic

02/11

Putnam: Brains in a Vat

 

Wood

1. Bailey

2. Goss

 

02/13

Hauser: Why isn’t my pocket calculator a thinking thing?  

Leiber: Space-Time for Springers

 

Brazil

1. Norris

2.

 

02/15

Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto

Kunzru: You are Cyborg

Clynes: Cyborgs in Space

 

Murphy

1. Berbusse

2. Mackey

 

02/18 Fate

February 18

Taylor Ch. 5: Freedom & Determinism

Taylor Ch. 6: Fate

 

Novy

 

X

 

02/20

Aristotle: On Fatalism

Aquinas: On Voluntary Action

 

Bailey

1. McClintock

2. Rowell

Bibliography and Abstract Due

02/22

God

Taylor Ch. 11: God

Asimov: The Last Question

No Class today – Midsouth Philosophy Conference in Memphis; Nonetheless, please read Taylor and Asimov as per the schedule

02/25

Dennett: I could not have done otherwise, so what?

Novy

1. Jones

2. McCollum

 

02/27

Anselm: The Ontological Argument

Gaunilo: In Behalf of the Fool

 

Scott

1. Davari

2. Harvey

 

02/29

Rowe: The Cosmological Argument

 

Harrell

1. McCollum

2.Peterson

 

03/03

Feuerbach: Essence of Religion in General

 

Berbusse

1. Harvey

2. Mackey

 

03/05

Guest Speaker: On Process Philosophy

 

Dr. Donna Bowman

X

 

03/07

Swinburne: The Justification of Theism

 

Rowell

1. Mann

2. Ridings

Review of Sources Due

03/10

EXAM #1                                             EXAM #1                                                   EXAM #1

03/12

Taylor Ch. 10: Causation

Novy

X

 

03/14 Time

Taylor Ch. 7: Space and Time

Taylor Ch. 8: The Relativity of Time and Space

Novy

X

 

03/17

Augustine: On Time

Newton: Space, Time & Motion  

Aristotle: Time is the Measure of Change

 

McCollum

1. Russell

2.

 

03/19

Keller & Nelson: Presentists Should Believe in Time Travel

 

Mackey

1. Soriano

2.