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Philosophy 7400 
Metaphysics
Weekly Assignments
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Aug. 27: Parfit, Reasons and Persons, sec. 83.
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Sept. 3: Strawson, Individuals, para.
starting top of p. 35, "But the point..."
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Sept. 10: Brandom, Making It Explicit,
ch. 1, sec. III, subsection 2 ("Wittgenstein's Regress
Argument," pp. 20-21).
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Sept. 17: Brandom, Making It Explicit,
p. 264, first full paragraph ("But Davidson objects...").
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Sept. 24: Brandom, Making It Explicit,
ch. 5, sec. II, subsection 5 (pp. 297ff, "Embedded
Uses of 'True'..."). (You'll need to look at the
"Five Theses of Classical Pragmatism" on p. 287;
since Brandom's argument is pretty hard to read,
you may also want to examine an instance of the
argument on which it's modeled -- the so-called
"Frege-Geach argument" -- in Geach, "Assertion"
p. 268, last para. (starting "The theory that to call
a kind of act 'bad'..."). ["Assertion" is on reserve
in the Philosophy Department.]
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Oct. 1: Brandom, Making It Explicit,
pp. 397-399.
FROM HERE ON OUT, WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS ARE TWO-PART -- SEE THE REQUIREMENTS PAGE FOR DETAILS.
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Oct. 8: MIE, para. bridging pp. 464-465 or
MIE p. 603 (starting with the first full para.) to p. 604 (thru 1st para.);
you'll need to look at (ii) on p. 602 as well.
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Oct. 15: MacFarlane, What Does It Mean...,
in sec. 1.3.1, pp. 17 (last para., "The third (and most
important...")-p. 18 (thru second para., "...that logical resources
possess").
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Oct. 22: MacFarlane, What Does It Mean...,
sec. 4.4; for obvious reasons, most the emphasis in the
grading will be on your counterargument.
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Oct. 29: Johnston, "Is There a Problem about Persistence?", Lewis block
quote on pp. 111-112.
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Nov. 5: Ismael, either "Burge on belief de re" (long para. on p. 16),
or "The argument" (pp. 27-30).
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Nov. 12: Ismael, "The dilemma" (p. 111).
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Nov. 19: Ismael, "McTaggart's argument" (pp. 149-153 [top]).
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Nov. 26: Thompson, "Apprehending Human Form",
p. 29 (in the section, "Against the empiricist propositions),
3 paras. starting with, "Skip now to the third empiricist
proposition...", or Reserve TS, I, pp. 39-40.
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Dec. 3: Reserve TS, IV, pp. 6-12.
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