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Z.K. Payne
TEACHING
Phil 1100 - Intro to Philosophy
Teaching Assistant
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Fall 2024
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Introduction to some of the most influential and difficult problems in the history of Western philosophy as modeled on Descartes' Meditations
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Course Units:
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Knowledge and Skepticism
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Personal Identity and the (Im)Possibility of Immortality
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Arguments For and Against the Existence of God
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Free Will, Determinism, and Responsibility
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Phil 2220 - Modern Philosophy
Teaching Assistant
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Spring 2024
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An introduction to metaphysical debates in Western Europe in the 17th - 19th century
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Central question: what is the world made up of?
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Philosophers
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Descartes
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Cavendish
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Locke
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Leibniz
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Berkeley
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Hume
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Kant
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Phil 2300 - Puzzles & Paradoxes
Teaching Assistant
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Fall 2023
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Survey class of famous paradoxes including (but not limited to):
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Zeno's Paradoxes
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The Sorites Paradox
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The Liar Paradox
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Paradoxes of Probability
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Doomsday and Simulation Arguments
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Newcomb's Puzzle
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Trolley Problems
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