Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. Sometimes a reading-guide handout will specify the details of an assignment, and it may include passages that are part of your assignment. (WLT = Westphal and Levenson’s Time; SZP = Salmon’s Zeno’s Paradoxes.)
| 8/23 | introduction | |
| 8/28 | Aristotle, Physics, bk. IV, chs. 10-14 (WLT, pp. 60-72)—reading guide | |
| 8/30 | wrt1 | Augustine, Confessions, bk. XI, chs. 14-31 (WLT, pp. 15-28)—reading guide |
| 9/4 | Newton vs. Leibniz (WLT, pp. 37-51)—reading guide | |
| 9/6 | Newton vs. Leibniz, cont’d; McTaggart, “The Unreality of Time” (WLT, pp. 94-98)—reading guide | |
| 9/11 | wrt2 | McTaggart, “The Unreality of Time,” cont’d (WLT, pp. 98-111)—reading guide |
| 9/13 | Horwich, Asymmetries in Time, ch. 2, sects. 1-2 (WLT, pp. 119-130)—reading guide | |
| 9/18 | ppr1 | James, Principles of Psychology, sels. from ch. 15 (1-up PDF, 2-up PDF)—reading guide |
| 9/20 | Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, sel. from pt. 3, ch. 2 (WLT, pp. 177-190)—reading guide | |
| 9/25 | Salmon, Zeno’s Paradoxes, sel. from intro. (SZP, pp. 5-16)—reading guide | |
| 9/27 | wrt3 | Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World, sel. from lect. 6 (SZP, pp. 45-58)—reading guide |
| 10/2 | Black, “Achilles and the Tortoise” (SZP, pp. 67-81)—reading guide | |
| 10/4 | Benacerraf, “Tasks, Super-Tasks, and the Modern Eleatics,” intro. and sect. I (SZP, pp. 103-121)—reading guide | |
| 10/9 | ppr2 | Grünbaum, “Modern Science and Refutation of the Paradoxes of Zeno” (SZP, pp. 164-175)—reading guide |
| midsemester break |