PHIL 020 003

office hours: Thursday 9:15 - 11:15 & by appointment
office: Caldwell Hall 210A
email: dowell@unc.edu

Information

 Syllabus

 Reading Schedule (September 27th Update)

A link to Bertrand Russell's essay on the value of studying philosophy

Readings

 Skinner Reading for September 1

Ryle Reading for October 6

Place Reading for October 11

Assignments

 Short Writing Assignment #1

Short Writing Assignment #2

Short Writing Assignment #3

Handouts

Chisholm's objection to Ayer

A possible compatibilist response to Chisholm

Class Discussion on Chisholm's Positive View

MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE

Some brief comments on Ryle's broken-backed argument

FINAL STUDY GUIDE

Additonal Suggested Readings (If you're interested)

Further Readings

Pictures

B.F. Skinner

Paul Holbach
(maybe it was the hard determinism that made him look like this)

A.J. Ayer

Walter Stace

Roderick Chisholm (teaching)

Chisholm (office hours?)
(1 bonus point for the first person to identify the famous philosopher in the picture above Chisholm's file cabinet)

Chisholm (teaching)

Harry Frankfurt

Bat

Optical Illusions (Your senses sometimes deceive, so can you ever trust them?)
The following (rotating snake and candies), I reproduce as educational fair use and are copyrighted images created by A. Kitaoka 2003, published at http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/rotate-e.html

Rotating Snake

Candies (stare at the cross in the middle while moving your head toward and away from the image)

Nerdy Boardgames

Do you play Axis & Allies?