Phi 109-02
Fall 2015
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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.

10/19   introduction
10/21   Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 3, ch. 1 (Pereboom, sel. 1, pp. 1-4)reading guide
10/23   Stoics, sels. and reports (Pereboom, sel. 2, pp. 5-13)—reading guide
10/26   ———, cont’d, and Lucretius, from On the Nature of Things (Pereboom, sels. 2-3, pp. 13-18)—reading guide
10/28   Augustine, from On Free Choice of the Will, bk. 3 (Pereboom, part of sel. 4, pp. 26-33)—reading guide
10/30 wrt1 Spinoza, from Ethics (Pereboom, part of sel. 6, pp. 62-68)—reading guide
11/2   ———, cont’d (Pereboom, part of sel. 6, pp. 68-75)—reading guide
11/4   Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, VIII, pt. 1 (Pereboom, sel. 8, pp. 87-99)—reading guide
11/6 wrt2 ———, pt. 2 (Pereboom, sel. 8, pp. 99-104)—reading guide
11/9   Kant, from Critique of Practical Reason (Pereboom, sel. 10, pp. 120-129)—reading guide
11/11   Williams, Free Will and Determinism, pp. 1-21reading guide 
11/13 ppr1 ———, pp. 21-41reading guide 
11/16   ———, pp. 41-58reading guide 
11/18   Frankfurt, “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility,” §§I-III (Pereboom, sel. 15, pp. 185-190)—reading guide 
11/20   ———, §§IV-V (Pereboom, sel. 15, pp. 190-195)—reading guide 
     
11/30   Frankfurt, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,” intro. and §§I-II (Pereboom, sel. 16, pp. 196-205)—reading guide 
12/2   ———, §§III-IV (Pereboom, sel. 16, pp. 205-212)—reading guide 
12/4 wrt3 Wolf, “Asymmetrical Freedom” (Pereboom, sel. 18, pp. 228-235)reading guide 
12/7   ———, cont’d (Pereboom, sel. 18, pp. 235-242)reading guide 
12/9   Strawson, “The Impossibility of Ultimate Moral Responsibility,” §§1-5 (Pereboom, sel. 21, pp. 289-299)—reading guide 
12/11   ———, §§6-7 (Pereboom, sel. 21, pp. 299-305)—reading guide 
12/15 ppr2