Phil 86: Index of All Materials on this Website

• Front page/Syllabus

• Classroom expectations

• Zoom links for course meetings and office hours
• Announcements, Readings, and Lecture Notes
• Canvas page for course

• My Philosophical Terms & Methods
• My Guidelines on Reading Philosophy

• Review Sheet of Concepts and Principles

Readings/Videos

This includes some upcoming texts:

• For Wed Aug 20:

  • Listen to Radiolab, Who Am I?
  • Greg Egan, “Learning to Be Me”

• For Fri Aug 22:

  • From Varley, The Ophiuchi Hotline.

• For Mon Aug 25:

  • Watch Videos on (Social) Identities
  • My Philosophical Terms & Methods (also linked in Admin section above)
  • My Guidelines on Reading Philosophy (also linked in Admin section above)
  • Pojman on Identifying Arguments

• For Wed Aug 27:

  • From Intro to David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics

• For Fri Aug 29:

  • Watch Video on Ship of Theseus
  • Watch Video on What is a person?

• For Mon Sept 22:

  • Read van Inwagen, from p. 223 – top p. 233

• For Mon Sept 29:

  • Read Perry dialogue, First Night

• For Fri Oct 3:

  • Read Perry dialogue, Second Night to top p. 22

Handouts and Webnotes

This includes things we’ve already covered:

• Notes on What is Philosophy?
• Discussion Questions on Egan and Varley

• Identities and Essences
• Ship of Thesus
• Conventionalism about Identity
• Questions, Answers, Knowledge
• Personhood

• Precision and Messiness in Philosophy
• Basic Ontology
• Realism, Reduction, Error Theory
• Basic Mereology
• Substances
• Dualism and Materialism

• Terms and Methods on Conditionals
• Intro to Leibniz’s Law
• Limits to Leibniz’s Law

• Timeline of Authors
• Perry’s First Night