Week
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Class
meeting
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Topic
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Assignment
Due
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Tests,
Papers
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1
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Tues. Aug. 31
Zoom
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Prolog, A
Budget of Paradoxes
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Thurs. Sep. 2
Zoom
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Paradoxes: Their Diagnosis,
Treatment and Cure, The
Logic of Arguments
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2
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Tues. Sep. 7
Zoom
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Paradoxes: Their Diagnosis,
Treatment and Cure, The
Logic of Arguments
Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion
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1. Assessing Paradoxes
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Thurs. Sep. 9
Zoom
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Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion |
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3
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Tues. Sep. 14
In
person classes commence in A216 Public Health-Crabtree
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Supertasks
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2. Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion
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Thurs. Sep. 16
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Reversed
Supertasks
|
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4
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Tues. Sep. 21
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Mechanical
Supertasks
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3.
Supertasks
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Thurs. Sep. 23
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Mechanical
Supertasks |
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Test 1
Test opens in Canvas at 4pm Thurs Sep
23 and closes at 4pm Fri Sep 24.
What is it on?
grades
|
5
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Tues. Sep. 28
|
Paradoxes
of the Infinitely Large
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4.
Mechanical Supertasks
|
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Thurs. Sep. 30
|
Set,
Formally Speaking
Infinite Sets
|
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6
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Tues. Oct. 5
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Infinite Sets
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5.
Paradoxes of the Infinitely Large
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Thurs. Oct. 7
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Infinite Sets
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Test 2
Test opens in Canvas at 4pm Thurs Oct.
7 and closes at 6pm Fri Oct 8.
What is it on?
grades
|
7
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Tues. Oct 12
|
Paradoxes
of Measure |
6. Infinite Sets
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Thurs. Oct. 14
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Additive Measures |
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8
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Tues. Oct. 19
|
The Liar |
7. Additive Measures
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Thurs. Oct. 21
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The Liar |
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Test 3
Test opens in Canvas at 4pm Thurs Oct.
21 and closes at 6pm Fri Oct 22.
What is it on?
grades
|
9
|
Tues. Oct. 26
|
The Paradoxes of Naive Set
Theory |
8. The Liar |
|
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Thurs. Oct. 28
|
The Paradoxes of Naive Set
Theory |
|
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10
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Tues. Nov. 2
|
Paradoxes
of Impossibility: Incommensurability |
9. The Paradoxes of Naive Set
Theory |
|
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Thurs. Nov. 4
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Paradoxes
of Impossibility: Classic Geometric Constructions (treated
briefly) |
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Test 4
Test opens in Canvas at 6am
Thurs Nov. 4 and closes at 6pm Fri Nov. 5. (note early start)
What is it on?
grades
|
11
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Tues. Nov. 9
|
Paradoxes
of Impossibility: Computation
(Background: Algorithmic
complexity)
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10.
Incommensurability |
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Thurs. Nov. 11
PSA, Baltimore
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Paradoxes
of Impossibility: Computation
|
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12
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Tues. Nov. 16
|
Probability
Theory Refresher
Paradoxes
From Probability Theory: Exclusivity
Paradoxes
from Probability Theory: Independence
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11. Uncomputable Tasks |
|
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Thurs. Nov. 18
|
Paradoxes
from Probability Theory: Independence
Paradoxes
From Probability Theory |
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Term paper preview due
Test 5
Test opens in Canvas at 4pm Thurs Nov.
18 and closes at 6pm Fri Nov. 19.
What is it on?
grades
|
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Thanksgiving recess, Nov.
22-26
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13
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Tues. Nov. 30
|
Problems
for Probability: the Principle of Indifference
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12. Probability |
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Thurs. Dec. 2
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Problems
for Probability: the Principle of Indifference
Paradoxes
For Probability: Expectations
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14
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Tues. Dec. 7
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Paradoxes
For Probability: Expectations |
13.
Probability: Paradoxes of Indifference
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Thurs. Dec. 9
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Some of:
The
Probabilistic Urn Supertask
The
Infinite Lottery: the Chances
How
to Build An Infinite Lottery Machine
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Test 6
Test opens in Canvas at 4pm Thurs Dec.
9 and closes at 6pm Fri Dec. 10.
What is it on?
grades |
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Fri. Dec. 10, Last day undergraduate
classes |
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Mon. Dec. 13 |
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Term paper due |
