Introduction to Metaphysics
Ted Sider
; 106 Somerset St., room 534; Fall 2016 office hours: Thursdays, 11:30-12:30
Class meets in Scott Hall 104, Mondays and Thursdays, 9:50-11:10
Announcements
Paper 2 is due in class on December 12.
Exam 3 will be on December 20 at 12:00.
Downloads
Syllabus
Paper 1
Paper 2
Study guide for exam 1 (applicable to exams 2 and 3 as well)
Handout: Preliminaries
Handout: Free will and determinism
Handout: Hard determinism
Handout: Libertarianism
Handout: Hobart's soft determinism
Handout: Wolf on freedom
Handout: Van Inwagen's consequence argument
Handout: Introduction to personal identity
Handout: Empiricist theories of personal identity
Handout: Temporal parts and change
Handout: Coinciding objects
Handout: McTaggart
Handout: Smart
Handout: Broad
Handout: Prior
Handout: Lewis