| Last modified November 8, 2011. |
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| Professor Stern Phone: (818) 677-4853 Sierra Tower, Room 508 Office hours: MW 7:00 - 7:45 a.m. and 12:00- 12:45 p.m.; also by appointment Email: cindy.stern@csun.edu |
Professor Yagisawa Phone: (818) 677-2756 Sierra Tower, Room 530 Office hours: MW 12:15 - 1:45 p.m.; also by appointment Email: takashi.yagisawa@csun.edu |
| SYLLABUS | ANNOUNCEMENTS |
THIS SCHEDULE MAY BE MODIFIED DURING THE COURSE OF THE SEMESTER. Any changes will be announced in class, posted on the class announcements web page, and written into the schedule below.
| Week | Date | Source | Chapter or paper | Pages |
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| UNIVERSALS | ||||
| 1 | 8/29 | |||
| 8/31 | Loux | 1 Russell, “The World of Universals” | pp. 14 - 19 | |
| 2 | 9/5 | LABOR DAY HOLIDAY | ||
| 9/7 | Loux | 3 Quine, “On What There Is” | pp. 42 - 56 | |
| 3 | 9/12 | Loux | 3 Quine (continued) | pp. 42 - 56 |
| 9/14 | Loux | 4 Williams, “The Elements of Being” | pp. 57 - 64 | |
| In-class writing assignment #1 | ||||
| 9/16 | Friday, September 16 is the last day to drop a class or change the basis of grading. (See http://www.csun.edu/anr/soc/calendar.html#fall11.) | |||
| 4 | 9/19 | Loux | 5 Armstrong, “Universals as Attributes” | pp. 65 - 91 |
| 9/21 | Loux | 5 Armstrong (continued) | pp. 65 - 91 | |
| PARTICULARS | ||||
| 5 | 9/26 | Loux | 6 Black, “The Identity of Indiscernibles” | pp. 104 - 113 |
| In-class writing assignment #2 | ||||
| 9/28 | Loux | 7 Allaire, “Bare Particulars” | pp. 114 - 120 | |
| 6 | 10/3 | Loux | 8 Van Cleve, “Three Versions of the Bundle Theory” | pp. 121 - 133 |
| In-class writing assignment #3 | ||||
| POSSIBLE WORLDS | ||||
| 6 | 10/5 | Loux | 10 Lewis, “Possible Worlds” | pp. 160 - 167 |
| 7 | 10/10 | Loux | 11 Plantinga, “Actualism and Possible Worlds” | pp. 168 - 187 |
| In-class writing assignment #4 | ||||
| 10/12 | Loux | 11 Plantinga (continued) | pp. 168 - 187 | |
| In-class writing assignment #5: work on draft of midterm paper | ||||
| 10/13 | DRAFT OF MID-TERM PAPER due 8 AM | |||
| 8 | 10/17 | Loux | 11 Plantinga (continued) | pp. 168 - 187 |
| 10/19 | Loux | 12 Lewis, “Counterparts or Double Lives?” | pp. 188 - 217 | |
| 9 | 10/24 | Loux | 12 Lewis (continued) |
pp. 188 - 217 |
| 10/26 | Loux | 13 Kripke, “Identity and Necessity” | pp. 218 - 247 | |
| 10/27 | MID-TERM PAPER due 8 AM | |||
| 10 | 10/31 | Loux | 13 Kripke (continued) | pp. 218 - 247 |
| CAUSATION | ||||
| 10 | 11/2 | Loux | 14 Hume, selections from A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I | pp. 257 - 273 |
| 11 | 11/7 | Loux | 15 Ewing, “Cause” | pp. 274 - 283 |
| In-class writing assignment #6 | ||||
| 11/9 | Loux | 18 Lewis, “Causation” | pp. 326 - 338 | |
| 12 | 11/14 | Loux | 18 Lewis (continued) | pp. 326 - 338 |
| In-class writing assignment #7 | ||||
| 11/15 | THESIS STATEMENT FOR TERM PAPER due 8 AM | |||
| 11/16 | e-journal | Dretske, “Laws of Nature,” Philosophy of Science 44 (1977). (Find using Philosophers’ Index and download.) | pp. 248 - 268 | |
| In-class writing assignment #8: bibliographic search | ||||
| 13 | 11/21 | e-journal | Dretske (continued) | pp. 248 - 268 |
| 11/23 | e-journal | Heathcote & Armstrong, “Causes and Laws”, Nous 25 (1991). (Follow download instructions from 11/16.) | pp. 63 - 73 | |
| In-class writing assignment #9: work on outline of term paper | ||||
| 11/24 | OUTLINE OF TERM PAPER due 8 AM | |||
| PERSISTENCE THROUGH TIME | ||||
| 14 | 11/28 | Loux | 25 Heller, “Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects” | pp. 418 - 442 |
| 11/30 | Loux | 25 Heller (continued) | pp. 418 - 442 | |
| In-class writing assignment #10: work on draft of term paper | ||||
| 12/1 | DRAFT OF TERM PAPER due 8 AM | |||
| 15 | 12/5 | Loux | 26 Merricks, “Endurance and Indiscernibility” | pp. 443 - 463 |
| 12/7 | Loux | 26 Merricks (continued) | pp. 443 - 463 | |
| In-class writing assignment #11 | ||||
| 16 | 12/12 | FINAL PAPER due 8 AM | ||
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