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. 1-21—reading guide | |
11/13 | ppr1 | ———, pp. 21-41—reading guide |
11/16 | ———, pp. 41-58—reading 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 |