Our readings divide into two broad streams, with assignments for Tuesdays dealing with relatively abstract concerns and those for Thursdays assaying applied issues on which those concerns bear, sometimes directly and sometimes rather more obliquely. Accordingly, on Tuesdays we will read and discuss sections of The View from Nowhere Mortal Questions (VN); on Thursdays we will consider a motley of issues spanning many areas of philosophy from Mortal Questions (MQ).
Week One:
- Thursday: MQ 14: Subjective and Objective
Week Two:
- Tuesday: VN I: Introduction
- Thursday: MQ 2: The Absurd
Week Three:
- Tuesday: VN II: Mind
- Thursday: MQ 12: What is it like to be a bat?
Week Four:
- Tuesday: VN III: Mind and Body
- Thursday: MQ 13: Panpsychism
Week Five:
- Tuesday: No Class
- Thursday: MQ 4: Sexual Perversion
Week Six:
- Tuesday: VN IV: The Objective Self
- Thursday: MQ 11: Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness
Week Seven:
- Tuesday: VN V: Knowledge
- Thursday: MQ 3: Moral Luck
Week Eight:
- Tuesday: VN VI: Thought and Reality
- Thursday: MQ 7: The Policy of Preference
Week Nine:
- Tuesday: VN VII: Freedom
- Thursday: MQ 8: Equality
Week Ten:
- Tuesday: VN VIII: Value
- Thursday:MQ 9: The Fragmentation of Value
Week Eleven:
- Tuesday: VN IX: Ethics
- Thursday: MQ 10: Ethics without Biology
Week Twelve:
- Tuesday: VN X: Living Right and Well
- Thursday: MQ 6: Ruthlessness in Public Life
Week Thirteen:
- Tuesday: VN X: Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life
- Thursday: MQ 1: Death
Week Fourteen:
- Tuesday: Kinds: Given and Constructed (No reading)
- Thursday: MQ 5: War and Massacre
Week Fifteen:
- Tuesday: Quodlibetal