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