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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.

10/16 introduction and Aristotle, from the Nicomachean Ethics (Pereboom, sel. 1, pp. 1-4)
10/18   Stoics, sels. and reports, and Lucretius, from On the Nature of Things (Pereboom, sels. 2-3, pp. 5-18)—reading guide
10/23 wrt1 Augustine, from On Free Choice of the Will, bk. 3 (Pereboom, part of sel. 4, pp. 26-33)—reading guide
10/25 Spinoza, from Ethics (Pereboom, part of sel. 6, pp. 62-75)—reading guide
10/30   Hume, from An Enquiry Concerning Human Nature (Pereboom, sel. 8, pp. 87-104)—reading guide
11/1 ppr1 Kant, from Critique of Practical Reason (Pereboom, sel. 10, pp. 120-129)—reading guide
11/6 Free Will and Determinism, pp. 1-21—reading guide
11/8   ———, pp. 21-41—reading guide
11/13   ———, pp. 41-58—reading guide
11/15 ppr2 Frankfurt, “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility” (Pereboom, sel. 15, pp. 185-195) —reading guide
  Thanksgiving break
11/27 Frankfurt, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” (Pereboom, sel. 16, pp. 196-212)—reading guide
11/29 wrt2 Wolf, “Asymmetrical Freedom” (Pereboom, sel. 18, pp. 228-242)—reading guide
12/4   Strawson, “The Impossibility of Ultimate Moral Responsibility,” §§1-5 (Pereboom, sel. 21, pp. 289-299)—reading guide
12/6   ———, §§6-7 (Pereboom, sel. 21, pp. 299-305)—reading guide
exam week
12/13 ppr3