Phil 101: Index of All Materials on this Website

• Front page/Syllabus
• Announcements, Readings, and Lecture Notes
• Zoom links for course meetings and office hours
• Canvas page for course
• Admin handouts:
  • Classroom expectations
  • How we understand grades
  • My Guidelines on Reading Philosophy
  • My Guidelines on Writing Philosophy
  • My Sample papers with feedback
• My Philosophical Terms and Methods
• Expository writing exercise due Mon Feb 19 — general feedback
• First exam on Wed Feb 28 (in class) – instructions and review sheet
• Version 1 of Midterm paper due Thu Mar 7 — general feedback
• Version 2 of Midterm paper due Thu Mar 28
• Second exam on Wed Apr 3 (in class) – instructions and review sheet
• Final paper due by the start of our final exam session on Thu May 2 at noon (drafts due earlier for peer feedback)

Readings

This includes things we’ve already covered, plus some upcoming texts:

• For Wed Jan 17:

  • Philosophical Terms & Methods (also linked in Admin section above; the Glossary is less important)
  • Pojman on Identifying Arguments

• For Mon Jan 22:

  • Selections from Dr Dolittle’s Delusion

• For Fri Jan 26:

  • Leiber textbook Chapter 1, also bot p. 34-top p. 39
  • Colin Allen, “Star Witness”

• For Wed Jan 31:

  • My websnotes on Basic Ontology and Substances, Monism, and Dualism (also linked in Webnotes section below)
  • p. 5 to mid p. 21 of Gennaro textbook (sections 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3)

• For Mon Feb 5:

  • Reading Philosophy (also linked in Admin section above)

• For Web Feb 7:

  • van Inwagen (long and complex), be prepared to discuss at least up to top p. 233 for this class
  • pp. 21 to 28 of Gennaro textbook (section 1.4)
  • My webnotes Introducing Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)

• For Mon Feb 19:

  • Review (reread) van Inwagen pp. 226-29
  • Huxley.

• For Web Feb 21:

  • Review van Inwagen 260-62
  • pp. 29 to 44 of Gennaro textbook (sections 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3)
  • Princess Elisabeth and Descartes

• For Web Feb 28:

  • Chapter 1 of the Lemos textbook
  • Rachels

• For Mon Mar 4:

  • Feinberg
  • Optional: Pereboom

• For Web Mar 6:

  • van Inwagen
  • Lemos textbook, pp. 21–25 of Chapter 2

• For Mon Mar 18:

  • all of Lemos textbook’s Chapter 2

• For Web Mar 20:

  • Beebee

• For Mon Mar 25:

  • Lemos textbook, Chapter 3

• For Web Mar 27:

  • Taylor
  • the parts of van Inwagen we skipped earlier (pp. 279-81)

• For Mon Apr 1:

  • Cory Doctorow, Truncat
  • Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
  • Optional: Brian Aldiss, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (the basis of the Kubrick/Spielberg film A.I.)
  • Optional: Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 (wikipedia description of a novel)

• For Mon Apr 8:

  • pp. 60–86 of Gennaro textbook
  • Chapter 2 of Leiber textbook
  • Lycan appendix
  • Hoftadter dialogue on Turing Test - summary

• For Mon Apr 15:

  • Turing

• For Mon Apr 22:

  • Searle’s Chinese Room
  • Einstein’s Brain – summary

• For Web Apr 24:

  • Chapter 3 of Leiber textbook
  • Greg Egan, Learning to Be Me

• For Mon Apr 29:

  • Schwitzgebel and Garza

Webnotes

This includes things we’ve already covered:

• The Varieties of Mental States

• Marks of the Mental

• Animal Cognition

• Star Witness and First Part of Leiber

• Basic Ontology

• Substances, Monism, and Dualism

• Introducing Leibniz’s Law

• Limits to Leibniz’s Law

• Huxley

• Causal Arguments against Dualism

• Intro to Free Will and Determinism

• Consequence Argument for Incompatibilism

• Compatibilism Part 1

• Compatibilism Part 2

• Libertarianism

• Other Minds and the Turing Test