Philosophy 110W-03: Introduction to Philosophy,

Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.

Hamilton College, Fall 2007

Lecture Notes

My lecture notes will be posted after class. Generally, they reflect what we did in class, and some more material that might be useful for you to know. The lecture notes, unlike the slides below, should be readable, whether or not you have attended class. If you miss class, you should certainly read the lecture notes.

December 4-6: Mackie, Dworkin, Bambrough

November 29: Ross

November 20-27: Kant

November 13-15 Utilitarianism

November 8 Turing and Searle

November 6 Functionalism. See also the slides from class, below.

November 1 Behaviorism and Identity Theory

October 30 Descartes's Theory of Mind

October 25 The D-N model and Goodman's New Riddle of Induction

October 23 Hume's Problem of Induction

October 18 Hume

October 11 Wittgenstein

October 9 Moore and Wittgenstein

October 4 Finishing Berkeley

October 2 Berkeley

September 27 Locke

September 25 Chisholm and Locke

September 20 Meditations Two and Three

September 18 More on Descartes's Doubts

September 13 Descartes's Doubts

September 11 Descartes and the New Science

September 6 Aquinas and Hume

September 4 Moore and Rowe

August 30 Anselm and Kant

August 28 Introduction, Some Logic, and Anselm

 

Slides

Note: the slides below are prepared and posted before class. They do not reflect precisely what happens in class, but should give you a good general feel for the day, in advance. Most importantly, I usually prepare more slides for each class than we will be able to cover in class. The pdfs come one slide per page. The powerpoint version (ppt) may have poor formatting, due to conversion from the software I use, Corel Presentations, but you can print more slides per page.

November 6 pdf

For October 11 pdf ppt

For October 9 pdf ppt

For October 4, and beyond: pdf ppt

For October 2 pdf ppt

For September 27 pdf ppt

For September 25 pdf ppt

For September 20 pdf ppt

For September 18 pdf ppt

For September 13 pdf ppt

For September 11 pdf ppt

For September 6 pdf ppt

For September 4 pdf ppt

For August 30: pdf ppt