Day
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Topic
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Handouts
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Readings
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Assignments
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8/26 (W)
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Syllabus
Participation
Rubric
Opening
Survey
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No readings |
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8/28 (F)
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When is it ok, if ever, to break the law? |
Restating an Author's Claim Clearly and Precisely
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Crito by Plato
Reading
Questions
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8/31 (M)
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Reading Questions
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9/2 (W)
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Class
Notes
Link
to that Socratic Dialogue with Taylor Swift
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"Letter
from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King Jr.
Reading
Questions
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Mini-Paper
1
Sample
1
Sample
2
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9/4 (F)
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Objections and Counterarguments Handout |
Reading Questions |
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9/7 (M)
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Do humans have free will?
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Reconstructing
Arguments Handout
Answers
to Bonus Questions from Reconstructing Arguments Handout
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"Incompatibilism"
by Robert Kane
Reading
Questions
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9/9 (W)
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Reconstructing
Kane's Argument |
Reading Questions |
Mini-Paper
2
Sample 1
Sample
2
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9/11 (F)
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Presentation
Assignment Sheet
Link to
that implicit bias test
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Interview
on neuroscience and free will with Adina Roskies
Listening
Questions
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9/14 (M)
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Validity and Soundness Handout |
"Predestination,
Divine Foreknowledge, and Human Freedom" by William Rowe
Reading
Questions |
Note: Quiz 1 was today. |
9/16 (W)
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What is the meaning of life? |
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"Religion
Gives Meaning to Life" by Lois Hope Walker
Reading
Questions
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Mini-Paper
3
Sample 1
Sample
2
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9/18 (F)
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Sample Presentation: Philosophy of Mind
Class
Notes
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"Existentialism
Is a Humanism" by Jean-Paul Sartre
Reading
Questions
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9/21 (M)
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Selections
from Meaning in Life and Why It
Matters by Stephen Macedo and Susan Wolf
Reading
Questions
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Presentation -- Kyle (Logic) |
9/23 (W)
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Selections
from Buddhism by
Damien Keown
Reading
Questions |
Mini-Paper
4
Note: Quiz 2 was today.
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9/25 (F)
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What is art? |
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Selections
from Philosophy of the Arts by
Gordon Graham
Reading
Questions
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Presentation -- Emma (Aesthetics)
Presentation -- Hanna (Ethics)
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9/28 (M)
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Handout
on Writing Concisely |
Selections
from The Invention of Art by
Larry Shiner
Reading
Questions
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Presentation
-- Josephine (Philosophy of Science) |
9/30 (W)
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Questions
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Mini-Paper
5
Sample 1
Note: Quiz 3 was today.
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10/2 (F)
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What is beauty? |
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Selections
from The Symposium by Plato
Selections
from Metaphysics by Aristotle
Selections
from The Summa Theologica by
Aquinas
Reading
Questions
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Presentation
-- James (Political Philosophy)
Presentation
-- Chris (Epistemology)
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10/5 (M)
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Letter
to Mersenne by Rene Descartes
Of the
Standard of Taste by David Hume
Selections
from Critique of the Power of Judgment by Immanuel Kant
Reading
Questions
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Presentation
-- Lucy (Philosophy of Language) |
10/7 (W)
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Questions
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Mini-Paper
6 |
10/9 (F)
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Is it rational to have emotional responses to literature?
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"Genuine
Rational Fictional Emotions" by Tamar Szabó Gendler and Karson
Kovakovich
Reading
Questions
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Presesentation -- Tara (Metaphysics)
Note: Quiz 4 was today.
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10/12 (M)
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"The
Challenge of Irrationalism and How Not To Meet It" by Derek Matrevers
Reading
Questions
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Presentation
-- Natasha (Philosophy of Religion) |
10/14 (W)
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Viewing Questions |
Reflection
Paper 1 |
10/16 (F)
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No class today |
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10/26 (M)
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Is evil incompatible with God's existence? |
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Selections
from The Brothers Karamazov by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Reading
Questions
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Note: Quiz 5 was today. |
10/28 (W)
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"The
Free Will Defense" by Alvin Plantinga
Reading
Questions |
Mini-Paper
7
Sample 1
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10/30 (F)
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"Guidelines
on Writing a Philosophy Paper" by Jim Pryor
"A
Sample Philosophy Paper" by Angela Mendelovici
"A
Brief Guide to Writing the Philosophy Paper" by Simon Rippon
Reading
Questions
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11/2 (M)
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What does it mean to say God is all-powerful? |
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"Whether
God is Omnipotent" by Thomas Aquinas
Reading
Questions
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11/4 (W)
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"Some
Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence" by George I. Mavrodes
"The Logic
of Omnipotence" by Harry G. Frankfurt
Reading
Questions
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Prospectus
Note: Quiz 6 was today.
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11/6 (F)
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"Guidelines
on Reading Philosophy" by Jim Pryor
"How
To Read Philosophy Papers" by Helena De Bres
"How to
Read Philosophically" by Kareem Khalifa
Reading
Questions
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11/9 (M)
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Prospectus
Discussion |
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Reading
Questions
Group 1:
Chris
Emma
Hanna
James
Group 2:
Josephine
Kyle
Lucy
Natasha
Tara
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11/11 (W)
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Why is there something rather than nothing? |
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Excerpts
from Why Does the World Exist? by
Jim Holt
Reading
Questions
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Mini-Paper
8
Sample 1
Sample
2
Sample
3
Sample
4
Note: Quiz 7 was today.
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11/13 (F)
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Excerpts
from Make it Stick by Peter
Brown Et Al
"Anselm:
Ontological Argument for God's Existence" by Kenneth Einar Himma
Reading
Questions
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11/16 (M)
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"On
the Origin of Everything" by David Albert
"Interlude:
A Word on Many Worlds" by Jim Holt
Reading
Questions
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Note: Quiz 8 was today |
11/18 (W)
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What makes
up my identity? |
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"Personal Identity"
by Theodore Sider
Reading
Questions
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11/20 (F)
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Reading Questions |
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11/23 (M)
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the
Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
Reading
Questions
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Rough
Draft
Note: Quiz 9 was today
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11/30 (M)
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Rough Draft discussion |
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Reading
Questions
Group 1:
Chris
Emma
Hanna
James
Group 2:
Josephine
Kyle
Lucy
Natasha
Tara |
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12/2 (W)
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See
Previous |
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12/4 (F)
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What makes up my identity? |
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"Identity:
Personal Identity, Characterization Identity and Mental Disorder"
by Jennifer Radden
Reading
Questions
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12/7 (M)
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"The fog of identity"
by Amartya Sen
Reading
Questions
Note: the following are
optional:
"Logic
of identity" by Bhikhu Parekh
"Clearing
the Fog" by
Bhikhu Parekh
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Note: Quiz 10 was today. |
| 12/9 (W) |
Final reflections |
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No
readings |
Reflection
2 |
| 12/13 (Su) |
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Note: Not a class day!
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Final
Draft |