A class that spiraled outwards from a consideration of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale to Maugham's parable of the appointment in Samara to parables in general, including the strange parable of the talents in Matthew. The ontology of things in the world and death as not a thing in the world (in Chaucer, in Maugham). How treasure or gold is like death -- a catalyst, a vector, something not itself (a marker for a return to Aristotle tomorrow).
4 How to talk about the Byronic Hero
Shelley and Byron on Byron
Later Romantics 2: Wordsworth and Milton
1. The Later Romantics: Introduction on Shelley and Wordsworth
Infinity 24: Last class: review and final explication of Zeno
Diagon Alley
Infinity 22: Newcomb's problem; Shelley
Infinity 21: Klee, Kant, Shelley
Infinity 20: Kant on Perception and Free Will
Infinity 19: Hume on induction, Kant on space and time, especially space
Infinity 18: Descartes, Gibson, Turing Tests
Infinity 17: Etherization
Infinity 16: Making Prisoner's Dilemma Vivid
Infinity 15: Pascal
Infinity 14: Polls and other minds
Infinity 13: Elementary probability and the philosophy of probablity
Pascal, the anthropic principle, what counts in philosophy
Infinity 11: by addition, by division, one-to-one correspondence, Macbeth, and time
Infinity 10: Augustine on time and language
Infinity 9: Something of a change of pace
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