2007-Nov-13: I am sick today, and so you get a break. No class today. Please be ready to pick up where we left off with Collins on Thursday. If you have questions about the current assignment, send email and I will try to answer them.

2007-Nov-04: Here is the writing assignment for Paper 3 Take 1, where you must find a published response to Kuhn's work and address it. Get to the library and start searching! Do it now!

2007-Nov-04: The reading assignment for this coming Tuesday is Collins, Chapters 3 and 4.

2007-Oct-21: Paper 2, Take 2 has been posted, and is due Friday, 2007-Oct-26, 11:59 pm.

2007-Oct-21: With apologies for the delay in this posting, here is the reading assignment for this coming Tuesday---Dennett, Chapters 1 and 2.

2007-Oct-16: See the reading assignment---Kuhn, Chapters V through VII---for Thursday.

2007-Oct-14: At long last, the page for the reviews of Paper 2 has been posted, including a link to the submission page.

2007-Oct-13: I am pushing back the deadline for the reviews for Paper 2 to Monday, 2007-Oct-15, 11:59 pm. I hope that the extra day is useful. Tomorrow, I will post a link to a submission page through which you will submit your reviews.

2007-Oct-06: Note the newly posted reading assignment---Kuhn, Chapters III through V---for Thursday. Keep an eye out for a formal posting on the reviews that you should be perform on one-another's Paper 2 submissions.

2007-Sep-28: As announced in class, there is an assignment to read Kuhn, Chapters I-III for class on Tuesday.

2007-Sep-28: Note that, as discussed in class, the deadline for Paper 2, Take 1 has been pushed back to Sunday, 2007-Sep-30, 11:59 pm.

2007-Sep-23: I ask your patience as I return both graded paper 1's and then edited first paragraphs. I am marking slow but certain progress. Should I take much longer to return paper 1, there will be another adjustment to the paper 2, take 1 deadline. Additionally, you should go ahead and start writing paper 2 -- while my feedback on your introductory paragraph may be helpful, it is not necessary to make progress. And please, no need to re-email your paragraph to me.

2007-Sep-21: The writing assignment, take 1 has, at long last, been posted. Read it carefully, because the topics (particularly #1) has been reworded for (I hope) clarity, the procedure for paper writing-and-reviewing has been modified as well, and most of all, the deadline has been pushed back to Sunday, 2007-Sep-28.

2007-Sep-21: The reading assignment from White (chapter XIV) for 2007-Sep-24. Note that the deadline for round 1 of paper 2 is being pushed back to Friday, 2007-Sep-28. Information on that will be posted very soon.

2007-Sep-14: The reading assignment from White (chapter III) for 2007-Sep-18.

2007-Sep-11: The reading assignment from White (chapter II) for 2007-Sep-13.

2007-Sep-06: Check out the details of the short writing assignment due 2007-Sep-10.

2007-Sep-04: A new assignment has been posted, due 2007-Sep-06.

2007-Aug-27: Before our first class meeting, reading the entirety of the course information page.

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