Course Introduction
Jan 13
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
Thursday Workshop
This Thursday we will not have a class meeting. However, I am organizing the California Metaphysics Conference, on Metaphysics and Feminism, taking place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I encourage you to come! Just email me so I can get you registered.
https://www.parthood.com/cmc2025
There is no reading report due this Thursday. But 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.