Teaching Assistants:
Tim Brown (tebrown@ucsc.edu).
Orville Canter (ocanter@ucsc.edu).
Andrew Delunas (adelunas@ucsc.edu).
Participation in discussion sections (approximately 10% of grade).
``Metaphysics exercises'' (kind of a short take-home multiple
choice quiz), due most class days (all exercises together,
approximately 30%; graded heavily on a curve). (Exercises due
Tues.,
Jan. 11;
Sun., Jan. 16;2 Tues.,
Jan. 18; Tues., Jan. 25; Thurs., Jan. 27; Thurs., Feb. 3; Tues.,
Feb. 8; Thurs., Feb. 10; Tues., Feb. 15; Thurs., Feb. 17; Thurs., Feb. 24; Tues., Mar. 1; Thurs., Mar. 10.)
Two short papers (2-3 pages), due Tues.,
Feb. 1
and Tues.,
Feb. 22
(approximately 15% each).
One longer
paper
(6-8 pages) (approximately 30%). The paper is due Wed., Mar. 16, but
you must hand in an introductory paragraph and brief outline
(approximately one sentence per paragraph of the proposed complete
paper) at some time on or before Tues., Mar. 8. Your TA will send this
back to you as soon as possible with suggested changes, which you
should take into account. This preliminary assignment will not be
separately graded, but if you do not hand it in at all or if it is
wholly unsatisfactory, your grade on the final paper will be reduced
by one half step (e.g. A to A-).
Papers are due by e-mail: please send to your TA and also cc
me. Please send in MSWord or in a format easily convertible to MSWord
(e.g., plain text, HTML, RTF). The first ME will be handed out in
class as a hard copy (also available on-line) and handed back in the
following class. Subsequent ME's will be run by an on-line system;
please check your UCSC e-mail for details.
All assignments will be available on-line before
they are due (hopefully well before).
Descartes, Selected Philosophical Writings, tr. J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff and D. Murdoch (Cambridge).
Leibniz, Philosophical Essays, ed. R. Ariew and D. Garber (Hackett).
Spinoza, The Ethics, Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, and Selected Letters, tr. S. Shirley, ed. S. Feldman (Hackett).
The above texts should be available at the Literary Guillotine. Readings not from texts on the above list are available on ecommons.