Coordinator: Manuel García-Carpintero
Modalities and
the Theory of Reference
S. Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Harvard U.P. 1980, lecture I.
Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Harvard U.P. 1980, lecture I.
S. Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Harvard U.P. 1980, lecture II.
H. Putnam, "Meaning and Reference", in S. P. Schwartz (ed.) Naming,
Necessity, and Natural Kinds, Cornell U.P. 1977.
Gareth Evans, "Reference and Contingency", in Collected Papers, Oxford U.P.
1985.
Davies and Humberstone, "Two Notions of Necessity", Philosophical Studies,
38, 1980, 1-30.
Possible Worlds
D. Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds, 3.1 and 3.2; David Lewis, "Possible
Worlds," Counterfactuals, sección 4.1. (Also in Loux (ed.), The Possible and
the Actual, Cornell U.P. 1979.)
D. Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds, 3.3; Brian Skyrms, "Tractarian
Nominalism," Philosophical Studies, 40, 1981, 199-206.
D. Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds, 3.4; Robert Stalnaker, Inquiry, MIT
Press 1984, Ch. 3. (Also in Loux.)
Causality
D. Lewis, "Causation" (and "Postscripts"), in Philosophical Papers, vol. 2.
(Also in Sosa and Tooley (eds.), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy,
1993.)
J. Mackie, "Causes and Conditions", in American Philosophical Quartely, 2,
1965, 245-264. Also in E. Sosa and M. Tooley (ed.): Causation.
G.E.M. Anscombe, "Causality and Determination," in Sosa & Tooley.
Events
D. Davidson, "Causal Relations," in Essays on Actions and Events, Oxford U.P.
1980.
D. Davidson, "The Individuation of Events," in Essays on Actions and Events.
W.V.O. Quine, "Events and Reification", and D. Davidson, "Reply to Quine",
in LePore and McLaughlin, Actions and Events, Blackwell 1985.
D. Lewis, "Events", in Philosophical Papers, vol. 2.
Explanation,
Reduction and Supervenience
J. Kim, "Concepts of Supervenience", Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research, 1984.
F. Dretske, "Laws of Nature", Philosophy of Science 44 (1977) 248-268.
J. Kim, "Explanatory Realism, Causal Realism and Explanatory Exclusion", in
D. Ruben (ed.), Explanation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy 1993. Jaegwon Kim,
"Multiple Realizability and the Metaphysics of Reduction", Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, 1992.
D. Lewis, "Causal Explanation", in Philosophical Papers, vol. 2. (Also in
Ruben (ed.), Explanation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, 1993.)
B. van Fraassen, "The Pragmatic of Explanation", ch. 5 de The Scientific
Image (Also in Ruben (ed.), Explanation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy,
1993.)
Universals
Devitt, Armstrong and Quine, "Symposium: 'Nominalism'", Pacific
Philosophical Quarterly 61 (1980), 433-451.
D. Lewis, "New Work for a Theory of Universals", Australasian Journal of
Philosophy, 1983.
Identity and
Personal Identity
J. Mackie, Problems from Locke, Oxford U.P., Ch. 5.
J. Mackie, Problems from Locke, Oxford U.P., Ch. 6.
B. Williams, "The Self and the Future", in H. Noonan (ed.), Personal
Identity, Duckworth 1993. Also in Williams, Problems of the Self, Cambridge
U.P. 1973.
S. Shoemaker, "Persons and their Past", in H. Noonan (ed.), Personal
Identity, Duckworth 1993. Also in Shoemaker, Identity, Cause and Mind,
Cambridge U.P. 1984.
D. Parfit, "Personal Identity", in H. Noonan (ed.), Personal Identity,
Duckworth 1993.