| Tentative Schedule of Reading Assignments |
|---|
| Date | Reading To Be Done For Class On That Day | Notes/Assignment |
|---|
| Tuesday, 9/4 |
McTaggart,
"Time" | Notes |
| Thursday, 9/9 |
Broad,
Excerpt from Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy |
Notes |
| Thursday, 9/11 |
Prior,
"The Notion of the Present"
Broad,
Excerpt from Scientific Thought |
Notes |
| Tuesday, 9/16 |
Smart,
"The Space-Time World" |
Notes |
| Thursday, 9/18 |
Williams,
"The Myth of Passage" |
Notes |
| Tuesday, 9/23 |
Hinckfuss,
"Topis, Soris, Noris"
Markosian,
"How Fast Does Time Flow?" |
Notes
No Notes on Markosian |
| Thursday, 9/25 |
Putnam,
"It Ain't Necessarily So", only sect. IV
Smart,
"Is Time Travel Possible? |
No Notes This Time |
| Tuesday, 9/30 |
Lewis,
"The Paradoxes of Time Travel"
Please also read Jim Pryor's Notes on the impossibility of
changing the past (you can skip #2). |
Notes |
| Thursday, 10/2 |
No Reading. Homework #1 due! |
| Tuesday, 10/7 |
Heinlein,
"By His Bootstraps"(click
here
if you can't read pdf files) |
Notes |
| Thursday, 10/9 |
Sider,
"Time Travel, Coincidences and Counterfactuals" |
Notes |
| Tuesday, 10/14 |
Perry,
"The Problem of Person Identity," pp. 3-20 |
Mini-Assignment |
| Thursday, 10/16 |
Parfit,
Reasons and Persons, section I, the first two paragraphs
of section II, and the subsection "The Subject of Experience"
in section II |
Notes |
| Tuesday, 10/21 |
Parfit,
Reasons and Persons, section III |
Notes |
| Thursday, 10/23 |
Lewis,
"Survival and Identity" |
| Tuesday, 10/28 |
Ehring,
"Personal Identity and Time Travel" |
| Thursday, 10/30 |
No Reading. Homework #2 due! |
| Tuesday, 11/4 |
Williams,
"The Self and the Future" (Click on the title to view it a page at a
time or on 'PDF' to view the whole document. If you have trouble, try
here.) |
| Thursday, 11/6 |
No Reading. |
| Tuesday, 11/11 |
Arnauld and Nicole,
excerpt from The Port-Royal Logic
Chisholm,
"Identity Through Time" |
Notes |
| Thursday, 11/13 |
Quine,
"Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis"
Quine,
excerpt from Quiddities |
No Notes This Time |
| Tuesday, 11/18 |
Wiggins,
"On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time" |
Notes |
| Thursday, 11/20 |
Fine,
"A Counter-example to Locke's Thesis" |
No Notes This Time |
| Tuesday, 11/25 |
Thanksgiving Recess! No Class. |
| Thursday, 11/27 |
Thanksgiving Recess! No Class. |
| Tuesday, 12/2 |
Burke,
"Preserving the Principle of One Object to a Place", sects. I, II,
first four paragraphs of III, first two pages of V, first page of VI |
Notes |
| Thursday, 12/4 |
Heller,
"Temporal Parts of Four Dimensional Objects" |
No Notes This Time |