Torin Alter's teaching page

General information:

Click here for writing tips, here for academic-honor pledge, and here for academic-honesty form for essays. Click here for an example of a paper that received a high grade from me.

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4. Click on Student Exam Results.

Intro:

To calculate your exam grade for Exam 3, add 14 points to the percentage of questions you got right.

To calculate your exam grade for Exam 2, add 5 points to the percentage of questions you got right. To calculate your exam grade for Exam 1, add 7 points to the percentage of questions you got right. [Note: I provide no guarantee that I will scale up any of the remaining exam.]

PHL 100-001 Spring 2006 (syllabus)

Reading assignments (PFP = Problems From Philosophy; TAW = The Truth about the World) :

Current reading: PFP: chapters 8, 9, 10; TAW: 19, 20; Singer’s article and a handout

Reading for Exam 3 (April 3): PFP: chapters 6, 7; TAW: chapters 12, 13, 15

Reading for Exam 2 (March 3): PFP: chapters 4, 5, 6.1; TAW: chapter 11

Reading for Exam 1 (Feb. 6): PFP: chapters 13, 1, 2, 3; TAW: chapters 1, 4, 5, 9; Plato's Crito; Anselm's ontological argument; Pascal's wager; Optional reading assignment: TAW: chapter 2. Knights/Knaves puzzle; Solution to Knights/Knaves puzzle

Review sheets: 1, 2, 3, 4

Enduring Self:

BUI 301-006/PHL 380-003 Spring 2006 (syllabus)

Presentation Schedule

Second paper assignment

First paper assignment

Reading assignments: Descartes, Meditations; Chalmers on the Matrix; Parfit, R&P, all of Part III and Appendix D. Chalmers’ book through chapter 8.