Metaphysics Syllabus
PHI 3000c (Metaphysics) MR 1215-140pm, 73615
Textbook:
Metaphysics
A Guide and Anthology
Edited by Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas
Oxford University Press, 2004
ISBN: 9780199261970
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1. Introduction: The Importance and Relevance of Metaphysics
2. Western Philosophy, Eastern Metaphysical Traditions
3. Realism and Idealism
7. Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
8. Selection from Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, George Berkeley
9. Selection from Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
10. Selection from Matter and Sense, Howard Robinson
4. Being
12. Selection from Categories, Aristotle
13. Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke
14. Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity, Robert M. Adams
15. On What There Is, W.V. Quine
16. Selection from Material Beings, Peter van Inwagen
17. Can There Be Vague Objects?, Gareth Evans
18. Vague Identity: Evans Misunderstood, David Lewis
5. Identity
40. Identity through Time, Roderick M. Chisholm
41. Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds, David Lewis
42. Personal Identity, Derek Parfit
43. Persons, Animals, and Ourselves, P.F. Snowdon
Metaphysics: An Anthology, 2nd Edition
Jaegwon Kim (Editor), Daniel Z. Korman (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3102-8
6. Persons.
40. "Persons and Their Pasts" (Sydney Shoemaker).
41. "The Self and the Future" (Bernard Williams).
43. "Survival and Identity" (David Lewis).
44. "Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualism" (Jaegwon Kim).
45. "The Ontological Status of Persons" (Lynne Rudder Baker).
46. "An Argument for Animalism" (Eric T. Olson).
7. Mind and Body
44. Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
45. Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances, G.W. Leibniz
46. Selections from Thought, Gilbert Harman
47. Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications, David Lewis
48. Selection from Thinking Causes, Donald Davidson
49. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, Thomas Nagel
8. Freedom and Determinism
50. Selection from Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume
51. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person, Harry Frankfurt
52. The Incompatibility of Freewill and Determinism, Peter van Inwagen
53. Selection from Freedom from Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Free Will, Barry Loewer
54. Human Freedom and the Self, Roderick M. Chisholm
9. Race and Gender
Sally Haslanger:
"Ontology and Social Construction." Philosophical Topics 23:2 (Fall 1995): 95-125.
"Feminism and Metaphysics: Negotiating the Natural." In the Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, ed., M. Fricker and J. Hornsby. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 107-126.)
Haslanger, Sally and Sveinsdóttir, Ásta Kristjana, "Feminist Metaphysics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/feminism-metaphysics/>.
10. Universals and Particulars
19. Selections from Parmenides and Republic, Plato
20. Selection from Universals: An Opinionated Introduction, D.M. Armstrong
21. Selection from New Work for a Theory of Universals, David Lewis
22. On the Elements of Being: I, Donald C. Williams
23. Causality and Properties, Sydney Shoemaker
11. Necessity
24. Selection from Naming and Necessity, Saul Kripke
25. Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds, David Lewis
26. Actualism and Possible Worlds, Alvin Plantinga
27. Selection from A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility, D.M. Armstrong
12. Causation
28. Selection from Metaphysics, Aristotle
29. Selection from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume
30. Causation, David Lewis
31. Causal Relations, Donald Davidson
32. Selections from The Facts of Causation, D.H. Mellor