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Ted Sider, xt. 5817, [email protected],http://web.syr.edu/~trsider; Office hours: Wednesday, Thursday, 2:00-3:00 PM; Link to abstract entities bibliography; Link to abstract entities notes; Description. This course will be concerned with the ontological status of …

Philosophy 104, Ted Sider, Spring, 2023 Van Dyck 211, T/F 10:20-11:40; office hrs T/F 9:30-10 & by appt (in 106 Somerset St, Rm 526) Link to Canvas site; TAs. Diego Arana (sections 3, 4, [email protected])

Ted Sider, Hall of Languages 537, 443-5817; [email protected]; One kind of introductory philosophy class proceeds historically. One reads the major works of the main historical figures, in each case quickly and superficially learning about who said what when.

Ted Sider, HL 537, xt. 5817, [email protected]; Office Hours: Wednesday, Thursday, 2:00-3:00; Overview. This will be a seminar on ontology, specifically, the ontology of material objects in time and space. We'll start with some questions about composite objects. Apparently, some objects have others as parts; for example, a lot of electrons are ...

Theodore Sider November 21, 2004 1 The concept of personal identity On trial for murder, you decide to represent yourself. You are not the murderer, you say; the murderer was a different person from you. The judge asks for your evidence. Do you have photographs of a mustachioed intruder? Don’t your fingerprints match those on the murder ...

Chapter 1 (Sider), Personal Identity over Time; and chapter 5 (Conee), Why Not Nothing?

Theodore Sider in David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasser-man,eds., Metametaphysics (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2009): pp. 384–423 1. The ontology of composite material objects In 1987, Peter van Inwagen asked a good question. (Asking the right question is often the hardest part.) He asked: what do you have to do to some objects to

Ted Sider, Davison 37, xt. 9037, [email protected], http://fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/~sider/ Office Hours: Tuesdays, 3:00-4:00, and by appointment; This introduction to mathematical logic will focus on three interacting topics. First, computability.

Theodore Sider December 2, 2022 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Importance of syntax to logic 3 2.1 Syntax in formal languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 3 First- versus second-order logic 7 3.1 Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7