Welcome Philosophy 118 students!
Click here to download a copy of the course syllabus.
Links to .pdf copies of readings will be posted here.
Alvin Plantinga, excerpts from The Nature of Necessity (1974)
David Lewis, excerpt from Counterfactuals (1973)
Bernard Williams, "The Self and the Future" (1970)
Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity" (1971)
Links to copies of assignments will be posted here.
Click here to download a copy of the first paper assignment, due 16 October.
Links to copies of my notes are posted here.
Click here for a copy of the notes for the introductory remarks for the course.
David Lewis's Argument for Possible Worlds
Williams on a Paradox of Personal Identity
Parfit on Why Identity doesn't Matter.