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Table of links to lectures for Jeff Speaks' Philosophy course, Paradoxes
| Session | Topic | Lecture Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the course | Lecture 1 |
| 2 | What is a paradox? |
Lecture 2 |
| Paradoxes of space and time | ||
| 3 |
Zeno's paradoxes |
Lecture 3 |
| 4 |
McTaggart's proof of the unreality of time |
Lecture 4 |
| 5 | Kant's antinomies |
Lecture 5 |
| 6 |
Paradoxes of special relativity & quantum mechanics |
Lecture 6 |
| 7 |
The doomsday argument & living in a computer simulation |
Lecture 7 |
| Metaphysical paradoxes |
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| 8 |
Material objects |
Lecture 8 |
| 9 |
Personal identity |
Lecture 9 |
| 10 |
Free will, determinism, and indeterminism |
Lecture 10 |
| 11 |
Is meaning possible? |
Lecture 11 |
| Theological paradoxes |
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| 12 |
The problem of evil |
Lecture 12 |
| Midterm exam | ||
| 13 |
Free will, fatalism, and divine foreknowledge |
Lecture 13 |
| 14 |
Free will & foreknowledge, continued First 5-7 page paper due, in class |
Lecture 14 |
| Spring break |
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| 15 |
Paradoxes of omnipotence & omniscience |
Lecture 15 |
| 16 |
The paradox of heaven and hell and the problem of the trinity |
Lecture 16 |
| Paradoxes of rational belief and action |
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| 17 |
Newcomb's problem |
Lecture 17 |
| 18 |
The prisoner's dilemma |
Lecture 18 |
| 19 |
The St. Petersburg paradox & the 2 envelope paradox |
Lecture 19 |
| 20 |
Paradoxes of confirmation: grue and the ravens |
Lecture 20 |
| 21 |
The surprise exam |
Lecture 21 |
| 22 |
The knower, the believer, & the paradox of knowability |
Lecture 22 |
| 23 |
Sleeping beauty |
Lecture 23 |
| 24 |
The lottery paradox |
Lecture 24 |
| Mathematical and logical paradoxes |
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| 25 |
The sorites |
Lecture 25 |
| 26 |
The liar paradox Second 5-7 page paper due, in class |
Lecture 26 |
| Final exam | ||
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Speaks, J. (2011, March 24). Lectures. Retrieved May 23, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/philosophy/paradoxes/lectures/lectures.
