second year course outlines 2012-2013 - School of Social Sciences ...

https://login.manchester.ac.uk/cas/login. Originally published in American Philosophical
Quarterly 13 (1976) 145-52. Reprinted in Crane and Farkas (eds) Metaphysics; P. Van
Inwagen and D. Zimmerman (eds) Metaphysics. The Big Questions; Le Poidevin and
MacBeath (eds) Philosophy of Time; also in Lewis’s Philosophical Papers, vol 2.
Further Primary Reading
Kadri Vihvelin, ‘What Time Travelers Cannot Do’, Philosophical Studies, Vol. 81 (1996), pp.
315-
330, online at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/q6l51147w06k3867/; and available on
the course website. See also Vihvelin’s philosophy blog here:
http://vihvelin.typepad.com/vihvelincom/
Kadri Vihvelin, ‘Two Objections to the Possibility of Time Travel’, at Vihvelin’s blog:
http://vihvelin.typepad.com/vihvelincom/2011/05/two-objections-to-the-possibility-of-timetravel.html
Theodore Sider, ‘Time Travel, Coincidences and Counterfactuals’, Philosophical Studies 110
(2002): 115-38; also available on Ted Sider’s website: http://tedsider.org/
M. Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time, ch7
Paul Horwich, Asymmetries in Time, ch7
Further Secondary Reading
Earl Conee and Theodore Sider, Riddles of Existence, ch3 (esp. pp. 57-61)
E.J. Lowe, A Survey of Metaphysics, ch18
B. Dainton, Time and Space, ch8
Schwartz, ch. 6
7. SAMPLE EXAM PAPER (for guidance only)
1. Are all necessary truths knowable a priori? Discuss with reference to Kripke.
2. Is Frege right to maintain that a sign can have sense without having reference?
3. Critically assess the logical positivists’ verification theory of meaning.
4. Are token mental events identical with token physical events? Discuss with reference
to Davidson.
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