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LEC #TOPICSKEY DATES
Week 1
1Thinking Like a Philosopher
Week 2
2Staying One and the Same Thing Over TimePaper 1 topics distributed
3Persistence for Persons
Week 3
4Remembering who you are
5Personal Identity as Psychological ContinuityPaper 1 due (after 2 days)
Week 4
6The Importance of Being Identical (?)Paper 2 topics distributed
7Identity is Not what Matters
Week 5
8The Truth will Set you Free
9First DebatePaper 2 due (after 2 days)
Week 6
10Knowing Right from Wrong
11What's your Evidence?
Week 7
12Not a Fact but a Feeling
13True for you, MaybePaper 3 topics distributed
Week 8
14Lessons from Einstein on Ethics
15What are we Arguing about?
Week 9
16Insiders, Outsiders
17Second DebatePaper 3 due (after 2 days)
Week 10
18Galileo, Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, Kant
19Hume, Popper, Putnam
Week 11
20Kuhn as Kant all Over Again
Week 12
21Four Kinds of IncommensurabilityPaper 4 topics distributed
22No Shared Reasons
Week 13
23No Shared Meanings
24No Shared World
Week 14
25The Idea of Progress
26Third DebateStudy questions distributed

Paper 4 due

 








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