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THIS SCHEDULE MAY BE MODIFIED DURING THE COURSE OF THE SEMESTER. Any changes will be announced in class, and will be written into the schedule below.
| Week | Date | Text | Chapter or paper | Pages |
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| PHILOSOPHY OF MIND | ||||
| 1 | 8/25 | |||
| 8/27 | Heil | Chapter 2: Cartesian dualism | pp. 14-26 | |
| 2 | 9/1 | Heil | Chapter 3: Descartes's Legacy | pp. 27-40 |
| 9/3 | Heil | Chapter 6: Identity Theory, sections 6.1-6.8 Chapter 7: Functionalism |
pp. 72-81 pp. 89-105 |
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| 3 | 9/8 | Heil | Chapter 7: Functionalism (continued) | pp. 89-105 |
| 9/10 | Heil | Chapter 9: Qualia | pp. 123-129 | |
| 9/11 | Friday, September 11 is the last day to drop a class or change the basis of grading. (See http://www.csun.edu/anr/soc/calendar.html#fall09.) | |||
| 4 | 9/15 | Heil | Chapter 13: Property Dualism | pp. 177-188 |
| METAPHYSICS: UNIVERSALS | ||||
| 4 | 9/17 | Loux | 1 Russell: The World of Universals | pp. 14-19 |
| 5 | 9/22 | Loux | 4 Williams: The Elements of Being | pp. 57-64 |
| 9/24 | Loux | 2 Price: Universals & Resemblance | pp. 20-41 | |
| 6 | 9/29 | Loux | 3 Quine: On What There Is | pp. 42-56 |
| METAPHYSICS: POSSIBLE WORLDS | ||||
| 6 | 10/1 | Loux | 10 Lewis: Possible Worlds | pp. 160-167 |
| 7 | 10/6 | Loux | 10 Lewis: Possible Worlds | pp. 160-167 |
| 10/8 | Loux | 11 Plantinga: Actualism and Possible Worlds | pp. 168-187 | |
| 8 | 10/13 | WRITING: work on draft of midterm paper | ||
| 10/15 | Loux | 11 Plantinga: Actualism and Possible Worlds | pp. 168-187 | |
| 9 | 10/20 | CATCH-UP | ||
| 10/22 | Loux | 12 Lewis: Counterparts or Double Lives? (continued) | pp. 188-217 | |
| 10 | 10/27 | Loux | 12 Lewis: Counterparts or Double Lives? | pp. 188-217 |
| METAPHYSICS: PERSISTENCE THROUGH TIME | ||||
| 10 | 10/29 | Loux | 20 (1st ed.) or 25 (2d ed.) Heller: Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects | pp. 328-352 (1st ed.) pp. 418-442 (2nd ed.) |
| 11 | 11/3 | Loux | Heller (continued) | as above |
| METAPHYSICS: PERSONAL IDENTITY | ||||
| 11 | 11/5 | Loux | 22 (1st ed.) or 27 (2nd ed.) Parfit: Personal Identity | pp. 374-394 (1st ed.) pp. 464-484 (2nd ed.) |
| METAPHYSICS: CAUSATION | ||||
| 12 | 11/10 | Loux or e-journal |
Lewis: Causation 18 in Loux, 2nd edition, or The Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973). (Find the journal in the Oviatt Library catalog e-journals. Browse the journal for the volume and year. Select this article to download. If you don't yet have Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader, download Acrobat Reader) |
pp. 326-338 (Loux) or pp. 556-567 (journal) |
| 11/12 | e-journal | Heathcote & Armstrong: Causes and Laws,
Nous 25 (1991). Follow download instructions for the previous assignment. |
pp. 63-73 | |
| 13 | 11/17 | e-journal e-journal |
THESIS STATEMENT for final paper due, 6 AM.
Heathcote & Armstrong: Causes and Laws, Nous 25 (1991). Dretske: Laws of Nature, Philosophy of Science 44 (1977). Follow download instructions for 11/10. |
pp. 63-73 pp. 248-268 |
| 11/19 | e-journal | Tooley: Causation: Reductionism versus Realism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 Supplement (1990). (See download instructions for 11/10.) | pp. 215-236 | |
| 14 | 11/23 | OUTLINE for final paper due, 6 AM. | ||
| 11/24 | NO CLASS MEETING (FURLOUGH DAY) | |||
| 11/26 | THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY | |||
| METAPHYSICS & PHILOSOPHY OF MIND: MENTAL CAUSATION | ||||
| 15 | 12/1 | Oviatt Electronic Reserve |
DRAFT of final paper due, 6 AM.
Kim: The Non-Reductivist's Troubles with Mental Causation, Mental Causation, ed. John Heil and Alfred Mele |
pp. 189 - 210 |
| 12/3 | NO CLASS MEETING (FURLOUGH DAY) | |||
| 16 | 12/8 | NO CLASS MEETING (FURLOUGH DAY) | ||
| 17 | 12/11 | FINAL PAPER due, 6 AM. | ||
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