MY COURSES, FALL 2008
Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 126
M/W/F 9:30-10:20 AM, Knapp 202
Philosophical Investigations
HNRS 175/PHIL 101
T/Th 1:30-2:50 PM, Knapp 208
Logic
PHIL 205
M/W/F 2:30-3:20 PM, Knapp 301
Social and Political Philosophy
Syllabus
Readings
Assignments
Response Paper Guidelines and Suggestions
Handouts
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Philosophical Investigations
Syllabus
Readings
Aristotle, Book VI of Thee Physics
Max Black, "Achilles and the Tortiose"
J. F. Thompson, "Tasks and Supertaks"
Paul Benacerraf, "Tasks, Supertasks and the Modern Eleatics"
Heinlein, "By His Bootstraps" (complete version)
selection from Gribbin, In Search of Schrodinger's Cat
Graham Priest, "What's so Bad about Contradictions?"
Lewis Carroll, "What Achilles said to the Tortoise"
Michael Scrieven, "Paradoxical Announcements"
A. J. Ayer, "On A Supposed Antinomy"
D. C. Makinson, "The Paradox of the Preface"
Robert Hoffman, "Mr. Makinson's Paradox"
Robert Nozick, "Reflections on Newcombe's Problem"
Williams and Nagel, "Moral Luck"
Peter Unger, "There Are No Ordinary Things"
Bertrand Russell, "Mathematical Logic as Based on the Therory of Types"
Augustine on Time
Assignments
Response Paper Guidelines and Suggestions
Paper I: Physics and Metaphysics
Handouts
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Epistemic Paradoxes (from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Logic
Syllabus
Readings
some additional modus tollens problems
Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting"
Rudolf Carnap, "Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language"
Graham Priest, "What's so Bad about Contradictions?"
Assignments
Selected solutions for problems in the book
Handouts
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