Resources for my Current Students (Spr. 2020)

PHI363: Metaphysics

Syllabus (Updated due to COVID-19)

​Midterm Questions

Final Exam Questions (Updated 4/21/20)

Optional Weekly Reading (in addition to Alyssa Ney's book)

Week 1: Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity"
Week 2: None.
Week 3: W.V.O. Quine, "On What There Is"
Week 4: Cian Dorr, "There are No Abstract Objects"
Week 5: Ted Sider, "Against Parthood"
Week 6: Ned Markosian, "A Spatial Approach to Mereology"
Week 7: Gottfried Leibniz, "Fourth Paper"
Week 8: Kadri Vihvelin, "What Time Travelers Cannot Do"
Week 9: Ned Markosian, "A Defense of Presentism"
Week 10: Ted Sider, "Temporal Parts"
Week 11: Matt Leonard, "Enduring through Gunk"
Week 12: Phillip Bricker, "Concrete Possible Worlds"
Week 13: John Martin Fisher, "Frankfurt-Type Examples and Semi-Compatibilism"
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General Resources
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​There are a number of really great resources on the web for learning how ​​to do philosophy well. I include a number of links below:

     Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper
     Guidelines on Reading Philosophy
     Wi-Phi
     The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

​I also include some handouts I've written up.

     Two Tips for Taking Philosophy Courses
     Basic Logic and Truth Tables
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​Interested in more philosophy?​

I'm not sure what philosophy classes you've taken, but if you're interested in more philosophy classes and don't know which class to sign up for next, take a look at some videos below. Below you will find a few videos introducing you to some of the main areas of philosophy. Hopefully this will help you decide which course to take next! As always, email me with any questions you have: mleonard@calbaptist.edu.

Metaphysics
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​Epistemology
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Ethics
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History of Western Philosophy
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