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Handouts, Presenters, and Due Dates: PHIL3370 Metaphysics SP08 |
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01/10 Intro Bits |
Plutarch: The Ship of Theseus |
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Novy |
X |
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01/14 |
Taylor Ch. 12: Polarity Borges: The
Library of Babel |
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Novy |
X |
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01/16 |
Taylor Ch. 1: The Need for Metaphysics Aristotle: Metaphysics |
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Novy |
X |
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01/18 |
Beauvoir: ““Woman as
Other” from The Second Sex |
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Novy |
1. 2. |
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01/21
MLK. Holiday MLK.
Holiday MLK. |
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01/23 Minds/ Bodies |
Taylor Ch. 2: Persons and Bodies Taylor Ch. 3: Interactionism |
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Novy |
X |
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01/25 |
Plato: Phaedo |
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Novy |
1. 2. |
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01/28 |
Aristotle: De Anima |
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Novy |
1.
Goss 2.
Wood |
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01/30 |
Descartes: Second Meditation Bisson: They’re Made out of Meat |
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Novy |
1.
Mann 2. |
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02/01 |
Taylor Ch. 4: The Mind as a Function of the Body Borges: Borges and I |
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Novy |
X |
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02/04 |
Locke: Of Identity &
Diversity |
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Novy |
1. 2.
Norris |
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02/06 |
Nagel: What is it like
to be a bat? |
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Ridings |
1. 2. |
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02/08 |
Dennett: Where
am I? |
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Norris |
1.
Scott 2. |
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02/11 |
Putnam: Brains
in a Vat |
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Wood |
1.
Bailey 2.
Goss |
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02/13 |
Hauser: Why
isn’t my pocket calculator a thinking thing?
Leiber: Space-Time for Springers |
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1.
Norris 2. |
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02/15 |
Haraway: A
Cyborg Manifesto Kunzru: You
are Cyborg Clynes: Cyborgs
in Space |
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Murphy |
1.
Berbusse 2.
Mackey |
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02/18 Fate |
February 18 Taylor Ch. 5: Freedom & Determinism Taylor Ch. 6: Fate |
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Novy |
X |
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02/20 |
Aristotle: On Fatalism Aquinas: On
Voluntary Action |
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Bailey |
1.
McClintock 2.
Rowell |
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02/22 God |
Taylor Ch. 11: God Asimov: The
Last Question |
No Class today –
Midsouth Philosophy Conference in |
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02/25 |
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Novy |
1.
Jones 2.
McCollum |
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02/27 |
Anselm: The
Ontological Argument Gaunilo: In Behalf of the Fool |
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Scott |
1.
Davari 2. |
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02/29 |
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Harrell |
1.
McCollum 2.Peterson |
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03/03 |
Feuerbach: Essence
of Religion in General |
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Berbusse |
1. 2.
Mackey |
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03/05 |
Guest Speaker: On Process Philosophy |
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Dr. Donna Bowman |
X |
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03/07 |
Swinburne: The Justification of
Theism |
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Rowell |
1.
Mann 2.
Ridings |
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03/10 |
EXAM #1
EXAM #1
EXAM #1 |
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03/12 |
Taylor Ch. 10: Causation |
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Novy |
X |
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03/14 Time |
Taylor Ch. 7: Space and Time Taylor Ch. 8: The Relativity of Time and Space |
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Novy |
X |
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03/17 |
Augustine: On Time Aristotle: Time is the Measure of Change |
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McCollum |
1.
Russell 2. |
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03/19 |
Keller & Nelson: Presentists Should
Believe in Time Travel |
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Mackey |
1.
Soriano 2. |
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03/21 |
McTaggart: The Unreality of Time |
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1.
Berbusse 2.
Murphy |
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03/24-03/28 Spring Holiday Spring |
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Schedule
Modifications in Red |
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03/31 |
McTaggart: The Unreality of Time |
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Novy
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1.
Berbusse 2.
Murphy |
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04/02 |
Taylor Ch. 9: Temporal Passage |
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Novy |
X |
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04/04 |
Williams: The
Myth of Passage |
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Peterson |
1.
Ridings 2. |
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04/07 |
Lewis: Paradoxes
of Time Travel (pg. 67-80) |
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Russell |
1.
Bailey 2.
Scott |
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04/09 Death |
Heinlein: All
You Zombies! Bradbury: A
Sound of Thunder |
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Novy |
X |
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04/11 |
Fischer: Death, Metaphysics, and Morality, 1-30 in TMOD |
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Novy |
1. McClintock 2. Murphy |
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04/14 |
Murphy: Rationality and the Fear of Death, 41-58 in TMOD |
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McClintock |
1.
Davari 2.
Peterson |
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04/16 |
Nagel: Death, 59-70 in TMOD |
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Mann |
1. 2.
Jones |
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04/18 |
Rosenbaum: How to be Dead and not Care, 117-134 in TMOD |
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Davari |
1. 2.
Rowell |
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04/21 |
Parfit: Reasons and Person, 191-218 in TMOD |
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Jones |
1.
Russell 2. Wood |
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04/23 |
Camus: The Myth
of Sisyphus |
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Novy |
X |
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04/30 |
EXAM #2 (11a.m.) EXAM #2
(11a.m.)
EXAM #2 (11a.m.) |
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