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Special Topics in Philosophy:

Is There Any Such Thing as Everything?

Due Dates
The first paper is past due.
The second paper is past due.

SpecialTopicsinPhilosophySyllabus

SpecialTopicsinPhilosophySampleMidtermQuestions

SomeBasics
DiscussionofIntroduction
BackgroundforFine
BackgroundforGlanzberg
DiscussionGlanzberg
BackgroundforParsons
DiscussionofParsons
DiscussionofLinnebo
WeirdTheory
UzquianoandFineonAbstraction
HellmanNominalism
McGeeRuleforEverything

EverythingHomework

LavineSomethingaboutSomething

Some Useful References

SyntaxofFirstOrderPredicateLogicwithEquality

TarskisTheoryofTruth is a simple, intuitive presentation of the theory with philosophical motivation. For a mathematically complete presentation see the next item.

SemanticsofFirstOrderPredicateLogicwithEquality

SortedSecondOrderPluralandModalLogic

The following reference will be useful for set theory: Boolean Topoi and Models of ZFC. Its main topic has not even been mentioned in this course, but the first four sections of Chapter 1 do much of what we need, including showing how to make use of classes.

AdditionalReferences

-- ShaughanLavine - 12 Jan 2009

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