Course Introduction
Jan 14, Jan 16
Tuesday Topic
This week we’ll discuss what you can expect in the course, and then I’ll begin an introduction to many of the views we’ll discuss throughout the semester. We’ll cover a short introduction to parthood, location, kinds of parts, kinds of extension, and views of persistence. We will also cover how to do Reading Report Papers and Presentations.
This Week's Readings
Required Readings:
None
Optional Readings:
Thursday Workshop
This week we will not have presentations, and we will not have a workshop. This Thursday we will continue the topics covered on Tuesday. No additional reading is due for today.
I do recommend beginning to look for papers you'll read for your presentations, and to begin building toward a paper topic. For this, I recommend looking through these resources:
Dana Goswick's Metaphysics Digest, which has a list of metaphysics papers published over the last decade.
If you want to access a paper, one great option is to login to the USC library website, and search for the title. Often papers are available through jstor (which you can also access through the USC library website). Finally, papers are often available on professor websites. Don't ever pay for a paper.
If you want to access a book, and that book happens to be published through Oxford University Press, know that USC also has OUP Online, which allows you to read OUP books electronically.