Lecture Notes
Week 1
Methodology
Things (Particulars)
Week 2
Properties
On What There Is (Quine)
Week 3
Holes
Truthmakers
Time
Week 4
Problems for Presentism
Time Travel
Fatalism
Week 5
Introduction to Modality
The Modal Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument
Week 6
The Problem of Induction
Laws of Nature
Causation
Week 7
The Nature of Harm
Week 8
Material Identity (Ship of Theseus)
Material Constitution
Week 9
Material Composition
The Identity of Indiscernibles
The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics
Week 10
Personal Identity
Split-Brain Cases
Week 11
Origin Essentialism
Haecceitism (deleted lecture)
Cartesian Dualism
Week 12
A Posteriori Necessities (and Dualism)
Physicalist Views (and A.I.)
Property Dualism
Week 13
Hard Determinism
Compatibilism
Incompatibilism
Week 14
Libertarianism
Week 15
The Metaphysics of Race
The Metaphysics of Gender
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