Phil 101: Index of All Materials on this Website

Front page/Syllabus
Announcements, Readings, and Lecture Notes
Admin handouts:
- Participation page
- Using Devices in Class
- My Guidelines on Reading Philosophy
- My Guidelines on Writing Philosophy
- My Sample papers with feedback
- How I understand grades for written work
- My Grading Rubric for papers
My Philosophical Terms and Methods
Expository writing exercise due Thu Sept 28 – general feedback
Version 1 of Midterm paper due Thu Oct 19 – general feedback
Version 2 of Midterm paper due Tue Nov 14
Final paper is due Thu Dec 14 by 4 pm

Readings

This includes things we’ve already covered, plus some upcoming texts:

Colin Allen, “Star Witness”
Chapter 1 of Leiber textbook
(For Mon Sept 11):
- mainly: Philosophical Terms & Methods (also linked in Admin section above, the Glossary is less important)
- supplemental, covering some of same ground: Pojman, Norton
(For Mon Sept 18):
- p. 5 to mid p. 21 of Gennaro textbook
- My websnotes on Basic Ontology and Substances, Monism, and Dualism (also linked in Webnotes section below)
- Reading Philosophy (also linked in Admin section above)
(For Wed Sept 20):
- pp. 21 to 28 of Gennaro textbook
- My webnotes Introducing Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)
- van Inwagen (long and complex), be prepared to discuss at least up to top p. 233 for this class
(For Mon Oct 2):
- pp. 29 to 44 of Gennaro textbook
- review van Inwagen pp. 226-29 and 260-62
(For Wed Oct 4):
- Princess Elisabeth and Descartes
(For Mon Oct 9):
- Huxley.
(For Wed Oct 11):
- pp. 60–86 of Gennaro textbook
- Chapter 2 of Leiber textbook
(For Mon Oct 16):
- Lycan appendix
- Turing
(For Wed Oct 18):
- Hoftadter dialogue on Turing Test - summary
Optional sci-fi readings:
- Cory Doctorow, Truncat
- Greg Egan, Learning to Be Me – assigned later in the course
- Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
- Brian Aldiss, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long
- Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
(For Wed Oct 25):
- Searle’s Chinese Room
For Mon Oct 30:
- Einstein’s Brain – summary
- Greg Egan, Learning to Be Me
- Chapter 3 of Leiber textbook
For Wed Nov 1:
- Schwitzgebel and Garza
For Mon Nov 6:
- Feinberg (we won’t meet in person, but there will be a recorded lecture)
For Wed Nov 8:
- Chapter 1 of the Lemos textbook
- Rachels
- Optional: Pereboom
For Mon Nov 13:
- van Inwagen
- Lemos textbook, pp. 21–25 of Chapter 2
For Wed Nov 15:
- all of Lemos textbook’s Chapter 2
For Mon Nov 20:
- Beebee
For Mon Nov 27:
- Lemos textbook, Chapter 3
For Wed Nov 29:
- Taylor
- the parts of van Inwagen we skipped earlier (pp. 279-81)
For Mon Dec 4:
- Lemos textbook, Chapter 4
- Kane selection from Chapter 1
- Kane selection from Chapter 12

Webnotes

This includes things we’ve already covered: