METAPHYSICS Free Will Libertarianism Agent causation, event causation Hard determinism Compatibilism Fatalism Free will and

moral responsibility Causation Relata Relation Regularity, Hume and INUS Counterfactuals Others: Probability, process, hybrids, eliminativism Induction Identity

Personal identity criteria Physical Bodily Animalism Psychological Others, hybrids Bundle theory, eliminativism Identity across possible worlds What matters?

Mind and Matter Dualism Cartesian dualism Epiphenomenalism Problem of interaction/mental causation Physicalism What is the physical? Reductive Physicalism Mind-brain identity: type and token behaviorism functionalism Nonreductive Physicalism Property dualism Consciousness What is consciousness Is it reducible? ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Fact and Value The meaning of good Is and Ought The naturalistic fallacy and the open question Naturalism vs nonnaturalism Moral knowledge Objectivity and Subjectivity Cognitivism and noncognitivism Frege-Geach and other objections

Moral realism vs subjectivism vs error theory Morality and The Self Egoism and altruism Psychological egoism Ethical egoism Rational egoism Why be moral? Morality, immorality, amorality Rationality and practical reason hypothetical and categorical imperatives moral motivation internalism externalism benefits of cooperation Forms of Consequentialism Theories of the good pleasure, happiness, preferences Act-consequentialism self-effacing? Direct and indirect consequentialism. Rule-consequentialism Strong vs weak Methodology vs value Collapses into act? extensional equiv.? Motive consequentialism vs deontology: Kant, etc.

LOGIC Formal Logic Basic concepts TFL FOL Classes and Relation Elements of probability calculus Philosophical Logic Names, variables and descriptions Frege Russells theory of descriptions Strawson Donnellan Kripke Necessity, analyticity and the a priori Classic view: three come together Kant and the synthetic a priori Kripke, contingent a priori and necessary a posteriori Meanings, intentions and conventions Grice, intention-based approach Convention-based approaches. Lewis. (Verificationism)

SET TEXTS Platos Meno Virtue Knowledge and teachability Definition Recollection True Belief vs Knowledge Humes Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Hume and Scepticism Humes view of science and causal reasoning The Argument to Design The Cosmological Argument The Problem of Evil and Moral Issues Which Character is Hume/Humes own views Problem of Philos position