Week
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Lecture
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Readings
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Part
1: Introduction
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The Socratic Way
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Notes
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Slides
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| Methods and
Interests
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Notes
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Slides
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Test case 1: The Argument for God
from Design
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Notes
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Slides
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4Hume,
D. (1779) Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 2
2K.
E. Himma (2006) 'The Design Arguments for God' 1
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Test case 1: The Argument against
God from Evil
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Notes
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Slides
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3Hume,
D. (1779) Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
[198]
1Beebe,
J. R. (2006) 'The Logical Problem of Evil (1-4)'
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Part
2: Epistemology
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Knowledge
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Notes
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Slides
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2Gettier,
E. (1963)
'True, Justified Belief'
1Truncellito,
D. (2007)
'Epistemology'
(1, 2, 3)
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Platonic Idealism
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Notes
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Slides
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5Plato
Republic Bk VII (514-518),
4Bk
V (474-480)
3Janaway,
C. (1995) ‘'The Presocratics and Plato'
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4
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Aristotelian Realism
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Notes
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Slides
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3Aristotle
Posterior Analytics II, 19
2Robin
Smith
(2007) 'Aristotle's Logic' 6, 8
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Varieties of
Skepticism
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Notes
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Slides
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4Descartes
(1641) Meditations on First Philosophy (1 and 2)
1Justin
Skirry (2008) 'Rene Descartes' 2, 3, 4
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Part
3: Science
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5
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The Problem of Induction |
Notes
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Slides
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5Hume,
D. (1740) Treatise
on Human Nature (Book I, Part iii, Section vi.)
3Thornton (2009)
'Karl Popper' 3
1Vickers
(2010) 'The Problem of Induction' 2
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Laws of Nature |
Notes
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Slides
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2Swartz
(2009) 'Laws of Nature' 2, 3, 4a, 5a, b'
4Carroll
(2010) 'Laws of Nature' 1, 2, 3 |
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6
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Scientific Explanations |
Notes
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Slides
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1Randolph
Mayes
(2005) Theories of Explanation' 1, 2, 3
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Theories and the World |
Notes
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Slides
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2Chakravartty
(2011) Scientific Realism' 2, 3
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Part
4: The Mind
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7
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Cartesian Dualism
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Notes
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Slides
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3Descartes
(1641) 'Meditation 6' from Meditations on First Philosophy
2Calef
(2006) 'Dualism and Mind' (sections 3 and 7)
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Behaviourism
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Notes
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Slides
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4Extract
from Gilbert Ryle (1949) The Concept of Mind
1Hauser
(2005) 'Behaviorism' 1 b i, ii, ii; 2
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8
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Causal Role Functionalism
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Notes
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Slides
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1Polger,
T.W. (2008) 'Functionalism'
2Searle,
J. (1980) 'Minds, Brains, and Programs'
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Computationalism |
Notes
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Slides
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Part
5: Ethics
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9
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About Ethics
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Notes
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Slides
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3Hume,
D. (1740) Treatise
on Human Nature (III, i, i.)
2Sayre-McCord,
G. (2007) 'Metaethics' (2, 3, 4)
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Utilitarianism
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Notes
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Slides
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4Mill,
J. S. (1863) Utilitarianism ch. 2 (too long)
1Heydt,
C. (2006) 'Mill: An Overview' (section 2d)
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10
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Kantian Ethics
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Notes
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Slides
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4Kant,
I. (1785)
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (Sec 1)
2Sayre-McCord,
G. (2000) 'Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals'
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Virtue
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Notes
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Slides
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3Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics (Bk 1)
1Athanassoulis
(2006) 'Virtue Ethics'
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Part
6: The Self
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11
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Personal Identity
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Notes
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Slides
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3Hume,
D. (1740)
A Treatise of Human Nature. Book III, Appendix
2Korfmacher,
C. (2006) 'Personal Identity' (sections 2a, c, d, and 3a)
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Free Will
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Notes
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Slides
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4Frankfurt,
H. (1971) 'Free Will and the Concept of a Person'
1Kimpe,
K. (2006) 'Free Will' (section 3)
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12
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Authenticity
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Notes
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Slides
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3Sartre,
J.-P. (1946) 'Existentialism is a Humanism'
2Warnock, M. (1970)
'Jean-Paul Sartre (1)' from Existentialism |
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The Meaning of Life
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Notes
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Slides
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1Nagel,
T. (1970) 'The
Absurd'
4Thaddeus
Metz, (2007) 'The Meaning of Life'
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