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Instructor: Hoover (Fall 2007)
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Current Assignments
- Fri., Dec. 7: Course Wrap-up
Previous Assignments
- Wed., Dec.
5: Dennett: from Consciousness
Explained
- Mon., Dec.
3: Taylor: Freedom and Determinisml"
- Fri., Nov.
30: Stace: The Problem of Moralsl"
- Wed., Nov.
28: Campbell,
"In Defense of Free Will"
- Mon., Nov.
26: Wood,
"The Free Will Controversy"
- Mon., Nov.
19: No
new reading--We will view a video (12:45 class time)
- Fri., Nov.
16: Humphrey & Dennett,
"Speaking for Ourselves"
- Wed., Nov.
14: Dennet,
"Why
Everyone
is a Novelist" Cooney, ed., (pp. 466-476)
- Mon., Nov.
12: Nagel,
"Brain
Bisection
and the Unity of Consciousness" Cooney, ed., (pp. 454-464)
- Fri., Nov.
9: No
new reading--We will view "In
Seach of Mind" (12:30 class time)
- Wed., Nov.
7:
Williams,
"Self and the Future"
- Mon., Nov.
5: Parfit,
"from Reasons
and Persons" Cooney, ed., (pp. 444-453)
- Fri., Nov.
2: David Hume,
"Of
Personal
Identity" Cooney, ed., (pp. 434-443)
- Wed., Oct.
31: John
Locke,
"Of Identity
and Diversity" Cooney, ed., (pp. 428-433)
- Mon., Oct.
29: NO CLASS.
- Fri, Oct.
26: EXAM
- Wed, Oct.
24:
REVIEW
- Mon, Oct.
22: Lewis,
"What Experience Teaches Us" (on-line .pdf file)
- Fri., Oct.
19: Jackson,
"Epiphenomenal
Qualia" Cooney, ed., (pp. 340-347)
- Wed., Oct.
17: Nagel,
"What Is
It Like
to Be a Bat", Cooney, ed., pp. 321-331
- Wed., Oct.
10: Chalmers,
"Strong Artificial Intelligence" (on-line .pdf file)
- Mon., Oct.
8: Churchlands,
"Could a Machine Think?" (included in previous on-line .pdf file)
- Fri., Oct.
5: Searle,
"Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program?" (on-line .pdf file)
- Wed., Oct.
3: Blakemore,
"Mind and Machines" (on-line .pdf file)
- Mon., Oct.
1: EXAM
- Fri.,
Sept. 28:
REVIEW
- Wed.,
Sept. 26:
No new reading.
- Mon.,
Sept. 24: Fodor,
"The Mind-Body Problem" (on-line .pdf file)
- Fri.,
Sept. 21:
Churchland,
"Eliminative Materialism" Cooney,
ed., (pp. 130-34)
- Wed.,
Sept. 19:
Place,
"Is
Consciousness
a Brain Process?" Cooney, ed., (pp. 77-84).
- Mon.,
Sept. 17:
No new reading.
- Fri.,
Sept. 14:
Fischbach,
"Mind and Brain" (on-line
.pdf file)
- Wed.,
Sept. 12:
PAPER
DUE. No new
reading
(Video:
Animal Consciousness)
- Mon.,
Sept. 10:
Ryle,
Ryle,
"Knowing How and Knowing That" (on-line .pdf file)
- Fri.,
Sept. 7:
Ryle,
"Descartes' Myth" Cooney,
ed., (pp.31-41)
- Wed.,
Sept. 5:
No
new reading.
- Fri.,
August 31:
Descartes,
"Cartesian
Dualism" Cooney, ed., (pp. 24-28)
- Wed.,
August 29:
Descartes,
"Cartesian
Dualism" Cooney, ed., (pp.1-3; 13-23)
- Mon.,
August 27:
No assignment for first class.
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