Detailed 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.
8/29 | introduction and Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 3, ch. 1 (Pereboom, sel. 1, pp. 1-4)—reading guide | |
9/3 | Stoics, sels. and reports, and Lucretius, from On the Nature of Things (Pereboom, sels. 2-3, pp. 5-18)—reading guide | |
9/5 | wrt1 | Augustine, from On Free Choice of the Will, bk. 3 (Pereboom, part of sel. 4, pp. 26-33)—reading guide |
9/10 | Spinoza, from Ethics (Pereboom, part of sel. 6, pp. 62-75)—reading guide | |
9/12 | wrt2 | Hume, from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Pereboom, sel. 8, pp. 87-104)—reading guide |
9/17 | Kant, from Critique of Practical Reason (Pereboom, sel. 10, pp. 120-129)—reading guide | |
9/19 | ppr1 | Free Will and Determinism, pp. 1-21—reading guide |
9/24 | ———, pp. 21-41—reading guide | |
9/26 | ———, pp. 41-58—reading guide | |
10/1 | wrt3 | Frankfurt, “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility” (Pereboom, sel. 15, pp. 185-195)—reading guide |
10/3 | Frankfurt, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” (Pereboom, sel. 16, pp. 196-212)—reading guide | |
10/8 | Wolf, “Asymmetrical Freedom” (Pereboom, sel. 18, pp. 228-242)—reading guide | |
10/10 | Strawson, “The Impossibility of Ultimate Moral Responsibility,” §§1-5 (Pereboom, sel. 21, pp. 289-299)—reading guide | |
10/15 | ppr2 | ———, §§6-7 (Pereboom, sel. 21, pp. 299-305)—reading guide |