Phil 101H: Index of All Materials on this Website

• Front page/Syllabus
• Announcements, Readings, and Lecture Notes
• Zoom links for course meetings and office hours
• Canvas page for course
• Admin handouts:
  • Classroom expectations
  • How we understand grades
  • My Guidelines on Reading Philosophy
  • My Guidelines on Writing Philosophy
  • My Sample papers with feedback
• My Philosophical Terms and Methods

Readings

This includes some upcoming texts:

• For Fri Jan 10:

  • Philosophical Terms & Methods (also linked in Admin section above; the Glossary is less important)
  • Pojman on Identifying Arguments

• For Fri Jan 17:

  • Selections from Dr Dolittle’s Delusion — see Course Blog entries for Jan 11-12

• For Fri Jan 24:

  • Leiber textbook Chapter 1, also bot p. 34-top p. 39
  • Colin Allen, “Star Witness”

• For Wed Jan 29:

  • My websnotes on Basic Ontology and Substances, Monism, and Dualism (also linked in Webnotes section below)
  • p. 5 to mid p. 21 of Gennaro textbook (sections 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3)

• For Mon Feb 3:

  • Reading Philosophy (also linked in Admin section above)
  • van Inwagen, up to middle of p. 230

• For Web Feb 5:

  • van Inwagen, at least up to top p. 233
  • pp. 21 to 28 of Gennaro textbook (section 1.4)
  • Re-read more closely the Terms and Methods page on Conditionals that we read earlier in class but postponed discussing
  • My webnotes Introducing Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)

• For Wed Feb 12:

  • My webnotes Limits to Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)

• For Mon Feb 17:

  • Review (reread) van Inwagen pp. 226-29
  • Huxley.

• For Fri Feb 21:

  • Review van Inwagen pp. 226-29 and 260-62
  • Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth and Descartes
  • pp. 29 to 44 of Gennaro textbook (sections 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3)

• For Fri Feb 28:

  • Chapter 1 of the Lemos textbook
  • Rachels

• For Mon Mar 3:

  • Pereboom

• For Mon Mar 17:

  • Listen to Free Will Show podcast #1 – transcript

• For Wed Mar 19:

  • van Inwagen
  • Lemos textbook, pp. 21–25 of Chapter 2

• For Fri Mar 21:

  • Watch Kumar video on moral luck

• For Wed Mar 26:

  • all of Lemos textbook’s Chapter 2
  • Beebee

• For Mon Mar 31:

  • Lemos textbook, Chapter 3
  • Taylor
  • the parts of van Inwagen we skipped earlier (pp. 279-81)

• For Mon Apr 7:

  • Cory Doctorow, Truncat
  • Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
  • Optional: Brian Aldiss, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (the basis of the Kubrick/Spielberg film A.I.)
  • Optional: Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 (wikipedia description of a novel)

• For Mon Apr 14:

  • pp. 60–86 of Gennaro textbook
  • Chapter 2 of Leiber textbook
  • Lycan appendix

• For Wed Apr 16:

  • Schwitzgebel and Garza
  • Optional: Bostrom and Yudkowsky

• For Mon Apr 21:

  • Hoftadter dialogue on Turing Test
  • Optional reading: Turing

• For Wed Apr 23:

  • Searle’s Chinese Room
  • Einstein’s Brain – summary

• For Mon Apr 25:

  • Chapter 3 of Leiber textbook
  • Greg Egan, Learning to Be Me

Webnotes

This includes things we’ve already covered:

• The Varieties of Mental States

• Marks of the Mental

• Animal Cognition

• Basic Ontology

• Substances, Monism, and Dualism

• Precision and Messiness in Philosophy

• Introducing Leibniz’s Law

• Limits to Leibniz’s Law

• Huxley

• Causal Arguments against Dualism

• What’s at Stake in Debates about Free Will?

• Threats to Free Will

• Determinism

• Control and Moral Luck

• Compatibilists

• Libertarians

• Other Minds and the Turing Test

• Searle’s Chinese Room