Clases individuales en metafísica

Curso IAP3032 en la IAP-PUC, segundo semestre 2012, docente: Daniel von Wachter

Contact: epost@ABCD.de - replace "ABCD" by "von-wachter". Tel. 354-1509.

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Contenido

• ↓ Descripción del curso
• ↓ Instrucciones
• ↓ Temas
• ↓ Bibliografía

Descripción del curso

This is an essay writing course with the tutorial method. Each participant has to write three essays of 2.000 to 3.000 words. (Different plans can be arranged.) The professor discusses each essay with the student in a one-to-one tutorial. Each essay is a defense of an answer to a philosophical question. For each essay the student has to work through a reading list (mainly contemporary texts). Each essay is marked.

Instrucciones

• ¡Lee las Instrucciones para escribir los ensayos!
• Cf. Instructions for writing a philosophical essay and criteria for marking.
• Lee Advice for studying and research (How to find texts, working techniques, etc.)

Los ensayos pueden ser en español o en inglés.

Temas

Personal Identity

Titulo: ¿Que hace que una persona P2 al tiempo t2 sea la misma persona que P1 al tiempo t1?

Textos obligatorios:

• van Inwagen and Zimmerman ed., 1998, Metaphysics: The Big Questions, pp. 291-342.
• Kim and Sosa ed., 1999, Metaphysics: An Anthology, part VI.

Más textos relevantes:

• Swinburne, 1986, The Evolution of the Soul, part 2.
• Derek Parfit, 1995, ‘The Unimportance of Identity’, Identity, ed. H. Harris.

Define bien que es un criterio de identidad.

¿Tenemos alma?

Titulo 1: ¿Tenemos alma?

Titulo 2: ¿Es lo mental reductible a lo físico?

Lectura requerida

• Swinburne, Richard, 2004, “The Possibility of Life after Death”
• Brisbane: ‘Case for Dualism’
• 'Dualism', SEP, by Howard Robinson. Follow the references at the bottom of this article.

Lectura adicional:

• Vease la bibliografía de mi curso ¿Tenemos Alma?
• * Ulrici, Hermann, 1873, [David Friedrich] Strauss as a philosophical thinker, a review of his book 'The Old Faith and the New Faith', and a confutation of its materialistic views, PDF, PDF (translation from German)

Titulo:

Textos obligatorios:

• Loux, ch. 1.
• Armstrong, Universals, …

Otros textos relevantes:

Otros temas posibles

Laws of nature.

Causation.

Possibility and Necessity.

The problem of universals: Are the properties of individual things themselves individual?

Questions concerning free will.

↑ Subir

Bibliografía

Con numeros de pedido en la Biblioteca de Humanidades.

Colecciones:

• Soul, body, and survival : essays on the metaphysics of human persons / / edited by Kevin Corcoran, 2001.
• Metaphysics : a guide and anthology / edited by Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas. 110 M587ea 2004
• Contemporary debates in metaphysics / edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne and Dean Zimmerman. 110 C761d 2008
• van Inwagen, P. & D. Zimmerman ed. 2007, Persons, OUP
• Metaphysics : the big questions / edited by Peter Van Inwagen and Dean W. Zimmerman. 110 M592e 2008.

Otros

• From metaphysics to ethics : a defence of conceptual analysis / Frank Jackson. 110 J12f 1998
• Contemporary metaphysics : an introduction Michael Jubien. 110 J91c 1997
• Metaphysics : a contemporary introduction / Michael J. Loux. 110 L895m 2006
• The possibility of metaphysics : substance, identity, and time / / E.J. Lowe. 110 L913p 1999
• A survey of metaphysics / E.J. Lowe. 110 L913s 2002
• Metaphysics / Peter van Inwagen. 110 V258m 2009

• Philosophica.info: Filosofía de la mente
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Look also at the philosophy links on my homepage
• NewDualism.org
• Philpapers.org: Contemporary English philosophical texts

Internet Articles:

• Philosophica.info: Filosofía de la mente