Assignments

Week 15 – PSR, Skepticism, & Explanation

8 Dec, 2022 explanation naturalism psr rationalism science skepticism

Week 14 – Limiting the PSR? Dasgupta v. MDR

1 Dec, 2022 ground explanation psr rationalism

Passage Analysis III

18 Nov, 2022 passage-analysis

Week 13 – Inquiry & the PSR (Guest: Fatema Amijee)

17 Nov, 2022 explanation inquiry psr reason

Week 12 – Schopenhauer on the PSR

10 Nov, 2022 explanation kant psr reason

Week 11 – The Acosmism Problem (Guest: Nick Stang)

3 Nov, 2022 acosmism being determinacy maimon kant nihilism psr reason spinoza

Week 10 – Jacobi's Challenge: Faith or Nihilism (Guest: Jim Kreines)

27 Oct, 2022 faith intelligibility jacobi kant nihilism psr reason spinoza

Passage Analysis II

21 Oct, 2022 passage-analysis

Week 9 – Kant IV: Reason & The PSR (Guest: Karl Schafer)

20 Oct, 2022 condition conditioned intelligibility kant psr reason

Week 8 – Kant III: The Temporal PSR

13 Oct, 2022 causation intelligibility kant psr succession time

Week 7 – Kant II: The PSR & Ontotheology (Guest: Dai Heide)

6 Oct, 2022 existence god kant modality psr

Passage Analysis I

30 Sep, 2022 passage-analysis

Week 6 – Kant I: The Pre-Critical Kant on the PSR

29 Sep, 2022 crusius explanation freedom leibniz kant psr truth

Week 5 – Leibniz II: Freedom & the PSR

22 Sep, 2022 contingency explanation freedom leibniz psr truth

Week 4 – Leibniz I: Truth, Explanation, & The PSR

15 Sep, 2022 explanation idealism leibniz psr truth

Background Reading on Ground

8 Sep, 2022 cause ground explanation

Week 3 – Spinoza II: Mind & Intelligibility

8 Sep, 2022 explanation mind-body paralellism psr spinoza substance

Week 2 – Spinoza I: Substance & Explanation

1 Sep, 2022 aquinas causality descartes explanation spinoza substance psr

Week 1 – Varieties of PSR

25 Aug, 2022 aristotle aquinas causality descartes explanation psr parmenides plato