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    3310 Syllabus Spring 2023

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    This document provides information about a Metaphysics course for the Spring 2023 semester. It outlines the course details including the professor's contact information, required readings, grading breakdown, and paper requirements. Students must complete three drafts of a paper on an approved topic. They will exchange first drafts with a partner and incorporate feedback into the second draft, which is submitted to the professor. The final draft is due at the end of the semester. The schedule lists the reading and class topics for each meeting.

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    PHILOSOPHY 3310 METAPHYSICS Spring 2023

    PROFESSOR: Trenton Merricks


    OFFICE: 103 Cocke Hall
    OFFICE HOURS: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30-4:30; and by appointment
    OFFICE PHONE: (434) 924-4235
    E-MAIL ADDRESS: Merricks@virginia.edu

    If I am not in my office, and you need to get in contact with me, please feel free to send me
    an e-mail or to call me at home. My home telephone number is (434) 244-0681. However, I
    ask that you call me at home only Monday through Friday between noon and 5 PM.

    REQUIRED READINGS:

    Required readings are available on the class Collab Website, under resources. The only
    exception is “Temporal Parts” by Katherine Hawley; Hawley’s article is an entry in the free
    online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/temporal-
    parts/

    NOTE: Laptops are not permitted in class.

    GRADING:

    Test 1: 1/3; Test 2: 1/3; Paper: 1/3

    THE PAPER:

    You must do three drafts of the paper.

    First draft: Pick a classmate to be your “partner.” Partners will exchange the first draft of
    their respective papers, and then e-mail each other (the equivalent of) a few pages of clearly
    written and helpful comments on that draft. Please copy me on that e-mail.

    Second draft: Rewrite your paper taking into account what your partner has said, any further
    readings you have done, and anything else relevant that may have occurred to you. Give the
    second draft to me. I will e-mail you comments on it.

    Final draft: Rewrite the paper in light of my comments (and do whatever else you can to
    improve it). Hand in the final version of the paper for a grade.

    Your paper should make a philosophically original point and the argumentation should be
    clear and careful. I do not expect the final paper to be long. You might very well have a draft
    that is thirty pages long, but—after you work really hard on the writing—end up with a final
    paper of twelve pages. A final paper of ten pages of carefully crafted argument would be
    fine. Thirteen (double-spaced) pages is the limit, and that would be long for a well-written
    paper. (If you do not revise your paper (again and again) with an eye to making it concise,
    you can easily fill thirty pages with ten pages worth of ideas and arguments.)

    The deadlines for topic approval, comments on your partner’s paper, and various drafts are
    on the schedule below. If you miss deadlines, your paper grade will suffer. You may, of
    course, get a topic approved, and do any of the drafts, earlier than the deadlines.
    I trust every student in this course to fully comply with all of the provisions of the
    University’s Honor Code. By enrolling in this course, you have agreed to abide by and
    uphold the Honor System of the University of Virginia. In particular, note that plagiarism at
    any stage of paper writing—including plagiarizing all or part of a draft of a paper that you
    give to your partner or to me—will result in an immediate zero for your term paper grade
    (1/3 of class grade), and will also be forwarded to the Honor Committee.

    SCHEDULE The reading assigned for a given date is to be done by that day, before you
    come to class.
    1. Jan. 18: Introduction
    2. Jan. 23: Kripke “Identity and Necessity”
    3. Jan. 25: NO CLASS
    4. Jan. 30: Kripke continued
    5. Feb. 1: Van Inwagen “Plantinga on Transworld Identity”
    6. Feb. 6: Lewis “A Philosopher’s Paradise”
    7. Feb. 8: Lewis continued
    8. Feb. 13: Lewis continued
    9. Feb. 15: Thomson “Parthood and Identity Across Time”
    10. Feb. 20: Hawley “Temporal Parts” (online: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
    11. Feb. 22: Haslanger “Persistence Through Time” and the first section (pp. 119-125) of
    Merricks “Presentism”
    12. Feb. 27: Haslanger and Merricks continued
    13. Mar. 1: Test One
    Spring Break
    14. Mar. 13: Chisholm “Identity Through Time”
    15. Mar. 15: Chisholm continued
    16. Mar. 20: van Inwagen “When Are Objects Parts” Deadline for having paper topic
    approved
    17. Mar. 22: van Inwagen continued
    18. Mar. 27: Heller “Temporal Parts of 4D Objects”
    19. Mar. 29: Heller continued First Draft of paper due to partner
    20. Apr. 3: Discussion focused on your papers-in-progress
    21. Apr. 5: Williams “The Self and the Future” Comments due to partner
    22. Apr. 10: Williams continued
    23. Apr. 12: Parfit “Personal Identity”
    24. Apr. 17: Parfit continued
    25. April 19: Olson “An Argument for Animalism” Second Draft of paper due to
    Merricks
    26. April 24: Olson Continued

    2
    27. April 26: Review Session
    28. May 1: Test Two
    Final paper is due by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 10. Late papers not accepted.

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