Phil 101: Index of All Materials on this Website

• Front page/Syllabus
• Announcements, Readings, and Lecture Notes
• Zoom links for course meetings and office hours
• Canvas page for course
• Admin handouts:
  • Classroom expectations
  • How we understand grades
  • My Guidelines on Reading Philosophy
  • My Guidelines on Writing Philosophy
  • My Sample papers with feedback
• My Philosophical Terms and Methods

Readings

This includes some upcoming texts:

• For Mon Jan 12:

  • Philosophical Terms & Methods (also linked in Admin section above; the Glossary is less important)
  • Pojman on Identifying Arguments
  • My Guidelines on Reading Philosophy

• For Wed Jan 14:

  • Links on animal mentality
  • Optional: Selections from Dr Dolittle’s Delusion

• For Mon Jan 26 Wed Jan 28:

  • Leiber textbook Chapter 1, also bottom p. 34–top p. 39
  • Colin Allen, “Star Witness”

• For Wed Jan 28 Mon Feb 2 Wed Feb 4:

  • My webnotes on Basic Ontology (also linked in Webnotes section below)
  • My webnotes on Substances (also linked in Webnotes section below)
  • p. 5 to bottom p. 13 of Gennaro textbook (sections 1.1 and 1.2)
  • My webnotes on Dualism and Materialism (also linked in Webnotes section below)

• For Wed Feb 4 Wed Feb 11:

  • van Inwagen to top p. 233
  • Reading Philosophy (also linked in Admin section above)
  • Re-read more closely the Terms and Methods page on Conditionals that we read earlier in class but postponed discussing
  • My webnotes Introducing Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)
  • p. 14 to middle p. 26 of Gennaro textbook (sections 1.3 and 1.4)
  • Re-read earlier webnotes on Our Private Mental Lives (also linked in Webnotes section below)
  • My webnotes Limits to Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)

• For Mon Feb 16:

  • Read for this session: continue van Inwagen to top p. 241

• For Wed Feb 18:

  • van Inwagen p. 226–middle p. 229 and pp. 260–262
  • p. 26 to p. 44 of Gennaro textbook (end of section 1.4, and sections 2.1–2.3)

Webnotes

This includes things we’ve already covered, plus some upcoming topics:

• Varieties of Mental States
• Our Private Mental Lives
• Mental Vocabulary
• Animal Mentality

• Basic Ontology
• Substances
• Dualism and Materialism
• Introducing Leibniz’s Law
• Limits to Leibniz’s Law