Metaphysics and Epistemology
Spring Quarter 2001
| Andrew
Mills'
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Course
Resources
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Dept.
of Religion
and Philosophy |
Reading Schedule
| Week I | ||
| March | 26 | Introduction to Course |
| 28 | Jubien, Ch. 1: Metaphysics | |
| 30 | Jubien, Ch. 2: Numbers | |
| Week II | ||
| April | 2 | Jubien, Ch. 3: Platonism |
| 4 | Jubien, Ch. 3: Platonism | |
| 6 | No Class Today | |
| Week III | ||
| 9 | Jubien, Ch. 4: Identity
First Short Paper Due Today Link to Paper Assignment |
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| 11 | Jubien, Ch. 5: Is Truth "Relative"? | |
| 13 | No Class Today--Good Friday | |
| Week IV | ||
| 16 | Jubien, Ch. 6: Color | |
| 18 | Jubien, Ch. 7: Determinism, Freedom, and Fatalism | |
| 20 | Jubien, Ch. 8: Modality | |
| Week V | ||
| 23 | Jubien, Ch. 9: Things and Their Parts | |
| 25 | Jubien, Ch. 10: Is There Truth in Fiction? | |
| 27 | Jubien, Ch. 11: Cosmology
Second Short Paper Due Today |
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| Week VI | ||
| 30 | Audi, Ch. 1: Perception | |
| May | 2 | Audi, Ch. 1: Perception |
| 4 | No Class Today | |
| Week VII | ||
| 7 | Audi, Ch. 2: Memory | |
| 9 | Audi, Ch. 3: Consciousness | |
| 11 | Audi, Ch. 4: Reason | |
| Week VIII | ||
| 14 | Audi, Ch. 5: Testimony
Optional Third Short Paper Due Today |
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| 16 | Audi, Ch. 6: Inference and the Extension of Knowledge | |
| 18 | Audi, Ch. 7: The Architecture of Knowledge | |
| Week IX | ||
| 21 | Audi, Ch. 7: The Architecture of Knowledge | |
| 23 | Audi, Ch. 8: The Analysis of Knowledge | |
| 24 | First Draft of Paper Due Today | |
| 25 | No Class Today | |
| Week X | ||
| 28 | No Class Today--Memorial Day | |
| 29 | Pick up papers from Prof. Mills
Return your comments to your colleagues |
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| 30 | Audi, Ch. 8: The Analysis of Knowledge | |
| 1 | Audi, Ch. 9: Scientific, Moral, and Religious Knowledge | |
| Exam Week | ||
| 4 | 1:30-3:30 Turn in final draft and meet to discuss papers |