Phi 109-01
Fall 2013
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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. 1-21reading guide
9/24   ———, pp. 21-41reading guide
9/26   ———, pp. 41-58reading 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