Date | Reading |
| 1/31 | Lawrence Sklar, Philosophy of Physics, chapter 2, excerpt on Newton and Leibniz on space and motion. |
| 1/31 | Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica, scholium to the definitions. |
| 2/12 | Gottfried Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, excerpts from the Correspondence. |
| (Original URL: http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~berciu/PHILIP/TEACHING/PHYS340/EXTRA/FILES/Leibniz-ClarkeA.pdf. Courtesy of Philip C. E. Stamp.) | |
| 2/16 | Sklar, chapter 2, excerpt on geometry. |
| 2/23 | Marc Lange, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics, chapter 1. |
| 3/2 | Lange, chapter 2. |
| 3/9 | Lange, chapter 4. |
| 3/14 | Lange, chapter 5. |
| 4/2 | Elliot Sober, Philosophy of Biology (2nd ed), chapter 1. |
| 4/9 | Sober, chapter 3. |
| 4/17 | Sober, chapter 4. |
| 4/25 | Sober, Did Evolution Make Us Psychological Egoists?, in From a Biological Point of View. |
| 4/30 | Sober, The primacy of truth telling and the evolution of lying, in From a Biological Point of View. Guidelines on Writing Philosophy Papers. |
| 5/2 | Sober, chapter 7, section 7.4. |
| 5/7 | Sharon Street, A Darwnian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value. (Skip sections 7 and 9) |
| 5/11 | |
| 5/14 | David Buller, Evolutionary Psychology: The Emperor's New Paradigm. |
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