LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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Week 1 | ||
1 | Thinking Like a Philosopher | |
Week 2 | ||
2 | Staying One and the Same Thing Over Time | Paper 1 topics distributed |
3 | Persistence for Persons | |
Week 3 | ||
4 | Remembering who you are | |
5 | Personal Identity as Psychological Continuity | Paper 1 due (after 2 days) |
Week 4 | ||
6 | The Importance of Being Identical (?) | Paper 2 topics distributed |
7 | Identity is Not what Matters | |
Week 5 | ||
8 | The Truth will Set you Free | |
9 | First Debate | Paper 2 due (after 2 days) |
Week 6 | ||
10 | Knowing Right from Wrong | |
11 | What's your Evidence? | |
Week 7 | ||
12 | Not a Fact but a Feeling | |
13 | True for you, Maybe | Paper 3 topics distributed |
Week 8 | ||
14 | Lessons from Einstein on Ethics | |
15 | What are we Arguing about? | |
Week 9 | ||
16 | Insiders, Outsiders | |
17 | Second Debate | Paper 3 due (after 2 days) |
Week 10 | ||
18 | Galileo, Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, Kant | |
19 | Hume, Popper, Putnam | |
Week 11 | ||
20 | Kuhn as Kant all Over Again | |
Week 12 | ||
21 | Four Kinds of Incommensurability | Paper 4 topics distributed |
22 | No Shared Reasons | |
Week 13 | ||
23 | No Shared Meanings | |
24 | No Shared World | |
Week 14 | ||
25 | The Idea of Progress | |
26 | Third Debate | Study questions distributed Paper 4 due |