Calendar

LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
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