Welcome Philosophy
Students. Below
you will find a table listing the assigned readings, important announcements,
and links to handouts passed out in class. Check on this page often in
order to keep up with the class.
Last Updated: 7/15
Announcements:
- 6/15: We went over the syllabus today
Reading Assignments:
- For 6/16: (a) Chapters 1 & 5 from Vaughn (b) Salmon's "The Scope of Logic" from Cahn
- For 6/17: Descartes' "Meditation I" in Cahn
- For 6/22: Russell, "Appearance and Reality"
- For 6/24: Descartes, "Meditation 2"; Ryle, "The Ghost in the Machine"
- For 6/25: Taylor, "The Mind as a Function of the Body"
- For 6/29: Nagel, "What is it Like to be a Bat?"
- For 7/1: Nagel, "Does God Exist?"
- For 7/6: Swinburne, "Why God Allows Evil"
- For 7/7: Hume, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"
- For 7/8: Blackburn, "Pascal's Wager"
- For 7/9: James, "The Will to Believe"
- For 7/13: Nagel, "Free Will"
- For 7/14: Taylor, "Freedom and Determinism"
- For 7/15: Ayer, "Freedom and Necessity"
Short Writing Assignments:
Handouts:
Links:
Links
to:
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