Contact Information
Professor: Megan Wallace
Office: King 120D
Office Hours: TR 12-1pm, and by appointment
Office Phone: x56054
Email: mwallace@oberlin.edu
Course
Information
Webpage: http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/mwallace/Phil208F09.html
Where: King 123
When: MW
7:00-8:15pm
Course
Syllabus
Course
Reading Schedule
Handouts
Some
Logic
Ship of
Theseus
Some
Arguments for Dualism
Perry
on Personal Identity (optional)
Optional
Reading
Modal
Realism
Lebniz's
Law, the Indiscernibility of Identicals, and the Identity of
Indiscernibles
Churchland, Paul. Matter
and Consciousness , Chapter 2 (on Blackboard)
Sider,
Theodore. "Four
Dimensionalism."
Philosophy
Paper Writing Guidelines
Sources
*Armstrong,
D.M. (1989) Universals: An
Opinionated Introduction. Wetview Press.
Campbell,
Keith. (1992) Body and Mind.
University of Notre Dame Press.
Churchland, Paul.
(1994) Matter and Consciousness: A
Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Revised
Edition. MIT Press.
Conee, Earl and Sider, Theodore. (2005) Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of
Metaphysics. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
*Perry, John. (1978) A Dialogue on Personal Identity and
Immortality. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Co.
Perry, John
(ed.). (2008) Personal Identity,
Second Edition. University of
California Press.
Rea, Michael (ed.). (1997) Material Constitution: A Reader.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Watson, Gary (ed.). (1982) Free Will. Oxford Readings in
Philosophy. Oxford University Press.
* Indicates a text that we will read (almost) in its entirety. If you
prefer to have your own, printed copy, feel free to order through ABE
books, or any on-line site or bookstore of your choice.
Exam
Review Sheets and Paper
Topics
Exam I
Review
Sheet
Paper I
Topics
Exam II
Review
Sheet
Paper
II Topics
Exam
III Review
Sheet
Paper
III Topics
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