******************************************* *** Phil 478 class meetings *** Version of: 2018/8/15 ******************************************* * Thursday, 1/25 Topic: Initial meeting Readings assigned: Horty [12, skim] and [13, intro, ch1] * Tuesday, 1/30 Topic: Defaults, default theories, extensions, senarios * Thursday, 2/1 Topic: Binding defaults, stable scenarios Homework #1 assigned (practice: not to be handed in) * Tuesday, 2/6 Topic: Approximation sequences, proper extensions * Thursday, 2/8 Topic: Multiple extensions, consequence relations * Tuesday, 2/13 Topic: Theories without extensions, Theorems 1 through 5, Reiter default theories Readings assigned: Horty [12, Chapter 5] * Thursday, 2/15 Topic: Theorems again, Reiter default theories, variable priority default theories Homework #2 assigned (due Tuesday, 2/20) * Tuesday, 2/20 Topic: Discussion of homework, undercutting * Thursday, 2/22 Topic: More on undercutting * Tuesday, 2/27 Topic: Discussion of consequence relations, counterexample to cautious monotony, undercutting * Thursday, 3/1 Topic: Philosophical issues surrounding priorities and undercutting Homework #3 assigned * Tuesday, 3/6 Topic: Review for Exam #1 * Thursday, 3/8 Topic: Exam #1 Readings assigned: Pollock [19,22] * Tuesday, 3/12 Topic: Pollock 1987 * Thursday, 3/15 Topic: Pollock 1987 Readings assigned: Dung [8] * Tuesday, 3/27 Topic: admissibility semantics * Thursday, 3/29 Topic: admissibility semantics * Tuesday, 4/3 Topic: admissibility semantics Readings assigned: Pollock [26,27] * Thursday, 4/5 Topic: Pollock 1994/95 Readings assigned: Pollock [26,27] * Tuesday, 4/10 Topic: * Thursday, 4/12 Topic: * Tuesday, 4/17 Topic: * Thursday, 4/19 Topic: * Tuesday, 4/24 Topic: * Thursday, 4/26 Topic: * Tuesday, 5/8 Topic: * Thursday, 5/10 Topic: