PROFESSOR: HUD HUDSON
OFFICE: BOND HALL 302A
PHONE: 650-3865
OFFICE HOURS: MWF 1:00-2:30

COURSE: PHILOSOPHY 430/ SPRING QUARTER 2010
CRN: 21286
LOCATION: HU 110
TIME: MWF 12:00-12:50

Hud Hudson  The Metaphysics of Hyperspace  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

In this course we will discuss and debate a number of exciting and challenging topics in contemporary analytic metaphysics.

Reading assignments are listed in the course outline below.  Students should attend each meeting of the course ready to discuss the assigned reading material.

You will write two papers on assigned topics (each roughly 2000-3000 words in length).  The first paper will be due at the beginning of class on Monday, May 3.  The second paper will be due in my office [Bond Hall 302A] on Tuesday, June 8 between 11:30-12:30.  Each paper will be worth one-half of the final grade for the course.

Please note my policy on late papers:  The deadline for submitting papers is 12:10 for the first paper and 12:30 for the second.  After that -- it's late.  Unless you make prior arrangements with me, a late paper will be penalized two full letter grades if it is submitted within 24 hours of its deadline, and it will be penalized three full letter grades if it is submitted within the next 24 hour period.  I will not accept a paper submitted 48 hours after it is due.  Computers crash, disks fail, and computer labs get busy.  Plan ahead.
 
 

 

03/31	Introduction
04/02
04/05	Ch 1:  Concerning Some Philosophical Reasons to Believe in Hyperspace
04/07
04/09
04/12
04/14
04/16	Ch 2:  Receptacles: Hosts and Guests
04/19
04/21	Ch 3:  Contact and Boundaries
04/23
04/26
04/28
04/30
05/03	First Paper Due In Class -- Monday, May 3 (Before 12:10)
05/03	Ch 4:  Extended Simples and Diachoric Identity
05/05
05/07
05/10
05/12	No Class
05/14	No Class
05/17
05/19	Ch 5:  Superluminal Motion and Superluminal Causation
05/21
05/24	Ch 6:  Mirror Determinism and Mirror Incompatibilism
05/26
05/28
05/31	No Class
06/02
06/04
06/08	Final Paper Due In Bond Hall 302A -- Tuesday, June 8 (Between 11:30-12:30)