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Metaphysics: Free Will >> Content Detail



Syllabus



Syllabus



Prerequisite


One philosophy subject is the only prerequisite.



Assignments and Grading


Assessment will be by means of two papers, each of which should be around ten pages long (i.e. 3,000 - 4,000 words long). Each paper counts for 50% of the course grade.



Calendar



LEC #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Introductory Session
2The Classical Compatibilist Account
3Refining the Consequence Argument and "Could have done otherwise"
4Denying Closure of Unavoidability
5Lewis on Law Breaking
6Modal Metaphysics
7More Modal Metaphysics
8Libertarianism I
9Libertarianism II
10Time Travel
11Frankfurt on Alternate Possibilities
12Reactions to Frankfurt
13StrawsonAssignment 1 due
14Reactions to Strawson
15Frankfurt's Higher Order Account
16Reactions to Frankfurt
17Reason Responsiveness; Wolf
18Choosing; Intentions; Weakness of Will
19Choice and Freedom
20Choice and Knowledge
21Empirical Work: Social Psychology I
22Empirical Work: Social Psychology II
23AddictionAssignment 2 due eight days after Lec #23

 








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