Assignment Schedule for Philosophy 408

 

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January 18Chisholm: Human Freedom and the Self
 van inwagen: An Argument for Incompatibilism
February 1Strawson: Freedom and Resentment
 Wiggins: Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism
February 8Lewis: Are We Free to Break the Laws?
 Nagel: Freedom
February 15Frankfurt: Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibilities
 Widerker: Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities
February 22O'Connor: Agent Causation
 Albritton: Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action
  
March 1Locke: Of Identity and Diversity
 Quinton: The Soul
March 8Grice: Personal Identity
 Reid: Of Identity & Of Mr. Locke's Account...
March 15SPRING BREAK
March 22Shoemaker: Personal Identity and Memory
 Perry: Personal Identity, Memory, and the Problem of Circularity
March 29Hume: Our Idea of Identity, Of Personal Identity, & Second Thoughts
 Williams: The Self and the Future
April 5Parfit: Personal Identity
 Nagel: Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness
  
April 12McTaggart: The Unreality of Time
 Prior: Changes in Events and Changes in Things
April 19Mellor: The Unreality of Tense
 Shoemaker: Time without Change
April 26Forbes: Time, Events, and Modality
 Sklar: Up and Down, Left and Right, Past and Future
May 3Dummett: Bringing about the Past
 Lewis: The Paradoxes of Time Travel
May 10Le Poidevin: Relationalism and Temporal Topology: Physics or Metaphysics?
 Newton-Smith: The Beginning of Time

 

 


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