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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. 30
5. How much of Russell’s theory of descriptions is acceptable? 6. ‘Physical objects are conceptually imported … as convenient intermediaries — not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer’ (‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’). Is Quine right to take physical objects to be “posits” comparable to the gods of Homer? 31
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Raz J. (1999) ‘The central confli
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