| LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | ||
| 1 | Thinking Like a Philosopher | |
| Week 2 | ||
| 2 | Staying One and the Same Thing Over Time | Paper 1 topics distributed |
| 3 | Persistence for Persons | |
| Week 3 | ||
| 4 | Remembering who you are | |
| 5 | Personal Identity as Psychological Continuity | Paper 1 due (after 2 days) |
| Week 4 | ||
| 6 | The Importance of Being Identical (?) | Paper 2 topics distributed |
| 7 | Identity is Not what Matters | |
| Week 5 | ||
| 8 | The Truth will Set you Free | |
| 9 | First Debate | Paper 2 due (after 2 days) |
| Week 6 | ||
| 10 | Knowing Right from Wrong | |
| 11 | What's your Evidence? | |
| Week 7 | ||
| 12 | Not a Fact but a Feeling | |
| 13 | True for you, Maybe | Paper 3 topics distributed |
| Week 8 | ||
| 14 | Lessons from Einstein on Ethics | |
| 15 | What are we Arguing about? | |
| Week 9 | ||
| 16 | Insiders, Outsiders | |
| 17 | Second Debate | Paper 3 due (after 2 days) |
| Week 10 | ||
| 18 | Galileo, Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, Kant | |
| 19 | Hume, Popper, Putnam | |
| Week 11 | ||
| 20 | Kuhn as Kant all Over Again | |
| Week 12 | ||
| 21 | Four Kinds of Incommensurability | Paper 4 topics distributed |
| 22 | No Shared Reasons | |
| Week 13 | ||
| 23 | No Shared Meanings | |
| 24 | No Shared World | |
| Week 14 | ||
| 25 | The Idea of Progress | |
| 26 | Third Debate | Study questions distributed Paper 4 due |