2018 Colorado Summer Seminar in Philosophy
June 10: Orientation Activities
June 11: Brian Talbot, The Puzzle of Morality and Uncertainty Brian Weatherson, “Running Risks Morally” Elizabeth Harman, “The Irrelevance of Moral Uncertainty” (pp. 53-54, 58-62; the rest optional) D. Moller, “Abortion and moral risk” (optional)
June 12: Heather Demarest, The EPR Paradox and Schrödinger's Cat David Albert, "Superposition" Video #1: "Schrödinger's Cat" Video #2: “Einstein and the Theory of Relativity”
June 13: Graeme Forbes, The Sorites Paradox Graeme Forbes, “Notes on the Sorites” Rosanna Keefe, “Theories of Vagueness” Graeme Forbes, Modern Logic, Chapter 11 (optional)
June 14: Beate Krickel (Ruhr-University Bochum), The Paradox of Self-Deception (readings here) Alfred R. Mele, “When Are We Self-Deceived?” Dana K. Nelkin, “Self-Deception, Motivation, and the Desire to Believe” I. Deweese-Boyd, “Self-Deception” (optional) A. Billon, “Have we vindicated the motivational unconscious yet?” (optional) H. Fingarette, “Self-Deception Needs No Explaining” (optional)
June 15: Robert Rupert, The Extended Mind Puzzle Andy Clark and David Chalmers “The Extended Mind” Margaret Wilson, “Six Views of Embodied Cognition” Robert D. Rupert, “Challenges to the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition” (optional)
June 16: Zoe Drayson (UC Davis), The Frame Puzzle, [special Saturday session, 1:30 – 4:30] Peter Carruthers, “On Fodor's problem” Daniel Dennett, “Cognitive wheels: The frame problem of AI” Jerry Fodor, “Two ways that you probably can't save abduction” Richard Samuels, “Classical computationalism and the many problems of cognitive relevance”
June 18: Julia Staffel, The Lottery Paradox Michael G. Titelbaum, “Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology” R. Weintraub, “The Lottery: A Paradox Regained and Resolved” (optional)
June 19: Sarah Robins (Kansas), The Puzzle of Memory (all readings available here) Dorothea Debus, “Memory Causation” Kourken Michaelian, “The Causal Theory” Roger Squires, “Memory Unchained” C. B. Martin and Max Deutscher, “Remembering” (optional) Dorthea Debus, “Accounting for Epistemic Relevance: A new problem for the Causal Theory of Memory” (optional) Koruken Michaelian and Sarah Robins, “Beyond the Causal Theory?” (optional)
June 20: Dan Kaufman, The Paradox of Free Will and Divine Foreknowledge Linda Zagzebski, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge (excerpts) Linda Zagzebski, “Recent Work on Divine Foreknowledge and Free Will” (optional)
June 21: Matthias Steup, The Puzzle of Free Will and Free Belief Peter van Inwagen, “The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will” Matthias Steup, “Doxastic Freedom” Matthias Steup, “Believing Intentionally”
June 22: Mitzi Lee, Epicurus’ Puzzle About Fearing Death Miscellaneous readings and videos (available here)
June 25: David Boonin, The Non-Identity Problem Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Chapter 16 David Boonin, The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People, Chapter 1
June 26: Alastair Norcross, The Mere Addition Paradox Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Chapter 17
June 27: Iskra Fileva, Moore’s Paradox (9:30-12:30) Sydney Shoemaker, “Moore’s Paradox and Self-Knowledge” Mark Crimmins, “I Falsely Believe That p”
June 28: Michael Huemer, Paradoxes of Infinity Michael Huemer, Approaching Infinity, chapter 3 Michael Huemer, Approaching Infinity, chapter 10 (optional)
June 29: David Boonin, The Puzzle of Third Party Coercion Stephen Mallary, et. al., "Family Coercion and Valid Consent" Joseph Millum, "Consent Under Pressure: The Puzzle of Third Party Coercion"