Details about Phil 5 can be found at the course web page.
Describe Zeno’s paradox of the arrow. What is its aim? What is the argument? What are the assumptions that could be questioned?
[Maximum 1 page, 12 point, double-spaced; any additional material will be ignored. Please hand in the assignment in your section during the week Sep 17-21.]
Describe the bucket experiment from Newton’s Principia. What is Newton trying to argue for or against?
[Maximum 1 page, 12 point, double-spaced; any additional material will be ignored. Please hand in the assignment in your section during the week Sep 24-28.]
Without undue technicalities, and using the example of Galileo’s ship, explain what a symmetry is. Why is this particular symmetry problematic for Newton’s concept of space?
[Maximum 1 page, 12 point, double-spaced; any additional material will be ignored. Please hand in the assignment in your section during the week Oct 1-5.]