Tom's Office Hours: TR 1:30pm-2:30pm and by appt., Robinson B443
Introduction to Philosophy Reading Schedule
Read each of the readings assigned for the day before you come to class! The links on this page will take you directly to the reading, though you will need a password for some of them, which I'll provide to you in class.
| Week Starting | Tuesday | Thursday |
| What is philosophy, anyway? | ||
| 20-Jan | Introductions and Overview | What is Philosophy? |
| Who are you? Who am I? | ||
| 27-Jan | "Learning to be Me," Egan | Locke and Hume on Personal Identity
Suggested Video: Personal Identity Suggested Video: Against Personal Identity First Analysis Due by January 30 |
| 3-Feb | "Where Am I?", Dennett
If you'd prefer to watch it rather than read it: https://youtu.be/KP7rTp2vwTs Optional Video: Dennett on Identity |
"No-Self: Empty Persons," Sidertis
Optional Video: The Illusion of Self: Hume and Buddhism |
| 10-Feb | "But Would That Still Be Me?", Appiah | "Throwing Like a Girl," Young |
| 17-Feb | "Mutilating Gender," Spade
Four Sentence Paper Due on Blackboard (Feb 18) |
"How to Build a Man," Fausto-Sterling
Second Analysis Due by February 20 |
| What can I know? | ||
| 24-Feb | "The Will to Believe," James | "Can it be rational to have faith?" Buchak |
| 2-Mar | Meditations 1 & 2, Descartes | Meditations 3 & 4, Descartes
Third Analysis Due by March 5 |
| 9-Mar | Spring Break - No Class | Spring Break - No Class |
| RESTART 3/23 | Review of Meditations
Proof of an External World, Moore Expanded Summary Due on Moodle (March 29 - Sunday) |
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| 30-Mar | "The Inference from the Impression to the Idea," Hume | |
| 6-Apr | COVID-19 Issues | COVID-19 Issues
Expanded Argument Due on Moodle (April 12 - Sunday) |
| Privilege, Oppression, and Resistance | ||
| 16-Apr | "Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles," Nguyen | "True Story: Echo Chambers Are Not the Problem," Lackey
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| 20-Apr | "Oppression," Frye | "Five Faces of Oppression," Young
Expanded Objection Due on Moodle (April 26 - Sunday) |
| 27-Apr | "Epistemic Injustice," McKinnon | "Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice," McKinnon |
| 4-May | TBD - Probably just open discussion and Paper Workshop | |
| 11-May | Final Paper Due on Blackboard (Thursday, May14, 1:15pm) | |