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Electronic Coursepack
(Readings marked with an asterisk (*) are suggested but not required.)
- Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes
- "What is it Like to Be a Bat?" by Thomas Nagel
- "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," by Alan Turning*
- "Minds, Brains, and Programs," by John Searle*
- "Functionalism," by Ned Block
- "Epiphenomenal Qualia," by Frank Jackson*
- "What Mary Didn't Know (excerpt)," by Frank Jackson*
- "Qualia," by Michael Tye*
- The Conscious Mind, by David Chalmers
- "Connectionism," by James Garson*
- "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness," by David Chalmers
- "Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness," by Daniel Dennett*
- "Quining Qualia," by Daniel Dennett
Reading Assignments
(Readings from Philosophy of Mind, by Jaegwon Kim are listed with a "K" followed by a chapter number and page numbers when applicable.)
- For Sept. 9: Get started on Meditations 1, 2, and 6 from the Descartes.
- For Sept. 14: Finish the Descartes selections and read K1 and K6, pp. 125-132.
- For Sept. 16: Read K2, pp. 25-32.
- For Sept. 21: Read the rest of K2 (pp. 32-46) and also "The Nature of Mind," by David Armstrong (available at New University Copies at 11 Waverly Place).
- For Oct. 5: Read K3 and K9, pp. 211-221.
- For Oct. 7: Read the Nagel.
- For Oct. 14: Read K4. The Turing and the Searle are suggested readings.
- For Oct. 21: Read the on-line Block.
- For Oct. 28: Read K5.
- For Nov. 2: Read "Troubles with Functionalism," by Ned Block (available at New University Copies).
- For Nov. 4: Read K9, pp. 221-226.
- For Nov. 9: Read Chalmers, Chapter 2. (Ask me for the uniquename and password to access this material.)
- For Novmber 16: Read "Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes," by Paul Churchland (available at New University Copies). The on-line piece on Connectionism by Garson is suggested reading.
- For Nov. 23: Read K6, pp. 132-139, 147-152 and K9, pp. 226-237. Also read "Mental Events," by Donald Davidson. "Psychology as Philosophy," by Davidson is suggested reading. (The Davidson pieces are at New University Copies.)
- For Nov. 30: Read K7 and "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness," by David Chalmers.
- For Dec. 2: Read Sections 3.1 and 3.2 of Chalmers, Chapter 3.
- For Dec. 7: Read the Dennett.
- For Dec. 9: Study for the Final Exam.
Last updated November 30, 1999
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This document was created on September 5, 1999.