Course Schedule
Key dates for Jeff Speaks' Philosophy course, Paradoxes, as taught in Spring 2010.
| Session | Topic | Key Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the course | |
| 2 | What is a paradox? |
|
| Paradoxes of space and time | ||
| 3 |
Zeno's paradoxes |
|
| 4 |
McTaggart's proof of the unreality of time |
|
| 5 |
Kant's antinomies |
|
| 6 |
Paradoxes of special relativity & quantum mechanics |
|
| 7 |
The doomsday argument & living in a computer simulation |
|
| Metaphysical paradoxes |
||
| 8 |
Material objects |
|
| 9 |
Personal identity |
|
| 10 |
Free will, determinism, and indeterminism |
|
| 11 |
Is meaning possible? |
|
| Theological paradoxes |
||
| 12 |
The problem of evil |
|
| Exam topics: paradoxes of space & time and metaphysical paradoxes |
Midterm exam |
|
| 13 |
Free will, fatalism, and divine foreknowledge |
|
| 14 |
Free will & foreknowledge, continued |
First 5-7 page paper due, in class |
| Spring break |
||
| 15 |
Paradoxes of omnipotence & omniscience |
|
| 16 |
The paradox of heaven and hell and the problem of the trinity |
|
| Paradoxes of rational belief and action |
||
| 17 |
Newcomb's problem |
|
| 18 |
The prisoner's dilemma |
|
| 19 |
The St. Petersburg paradox & the 2 envelope paradox |
|
| 20 |
Paradoxes of confirmation: grue and the ravens |
|
| 21 |
The surprise exam |
|
| 22 |
The knower, the believer, & the paradox of knowability |
|
| 23 |
Sleeping beauty |
|
| 24 |
The lottery paradox |
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| Mathematical and logical paradoxes |
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| 25 |
The sorites |
|
| 26 |
The liar paradox |
Second 5-7 page paper due, in class |
| Exam topics: theological paradoxes, paradoxes of belief & action, and mathematical & logical paradoxes |
Final exam |
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Citation: Speaks, J. (2011, March 24). Course Schedule. Retrieved May 22, 2013, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://nddev.educommons.net/philosophy/paradoxes/course-schedule.
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