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Last Updated January 09, 2008
An
Accumulation of Readings for Novy’s Classes
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ACLU: The
Case Against the Death Penalty
Anscombe: Mr. Truman’s Degree
Anselm: The Ontological Argument (from Proslogium)
Aquinas: On Voluntary Action (from Summa Theologica)
Aristotle: De Anima (selections)
Aristotle: Metaphysics
(selections)
Aristotle: On Fatalism (selections from
On
Interpretation; Nicomachean
Ethics)
Aristotle: Time is the Measure of Change
(selections from Physics)
Arneson: Marxism and
Secular Faith
Asimov: The Last Question
Assy: Eichmann,
Banality of Evil & Thinking Arendt’s Thought
Augustine: On Time (from Confessions)
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Baran: The Commitment of the
Intellectual
Bartels & Zeki: Neural
basis of romantic love
Baudrillard: Simulacra and
Simulations
Beauvoir: “Woman as Other” from The Second Sex
Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction
Bisson: They’re Made out of Meat
Black: Achilles and the
Tortoise
Black Panther Party: The Ten Point Plan
Borges: Borges and I
Borges: The Library of Babel
Bostrom: Are You Living in a
Computer Simulation?
Bowman: The Importance of Whitehead for Contemporary
Theology
Boyd: Collateral
Damage in the War on Drugs
Bradbury: A
Sound of Thunder
Breton & Rivera: Manifesto
for an Independent Revolutionary Art
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Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
Carroll:
What the
Tortoise Said to Achilles
Chatterjee: Cosmetic Neurology
Churchland &
Churchland: Neural
worlds and real worlds
Churchland: How do neurons know?
Clark & Chalmers: The Extended Mind
Clifford: The Ethics of Belief
Clynes: Cyborgs in Space
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Davis: The
Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective
Defoe: The Education of Women
Dennett &
Humphrey: Speaking
for Our Selves
Dennett: Consciousness in Human and
Robot Minds
Dennett: Did HAL Commit Murder?
Dennett: I
could not have done otherwise, so what?
Dennett: The Role of Language in
Intelligence
Dennett: The
Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity
Dennett: The Self as
a Responding – and Responsible – Artifact
Dennett: Where am I?
Descartes &
Arnauld: On Cartesian Dualism
Descartes: Second Meditation
Dick: How
to Build a Universe that Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
Dostoevsky: The Grand Inquisitor
Dretske: How Do You Know You are Not
a Zombie?
DuBois: Negroes
and the Crisis of Capitalism in the United States – Reprise
Dworkin: Intercourse:
Occupation/Collaboration
Dworkin: Pornography
Happens to Women
Dworkin & MacKinnon: The
Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance
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Einstein: Why Socialism?
Emerson: The Comic
Engels: “The
Monogamous Family” in Origins of the Family, Private Property and the
State
Engels: Letter
to Pyotr Lavrov
Engels: Speech
at the Grave of Karl Marx
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Feuerbach: The
Essence of Religion in General from The
Essence of Christianity
Flanagan & Polger: Zombies
and the function of consciousness
Flew: Theology and
Falsification (excerpt and comments from Hare)
Foster: Marx and Internationalism
Foster: Marx’s
Ecology in Historical Perspective
Foucault: The Order of Things (preface)
Frith: Mind
Blindness and the Brain in Autism
Fromm: Character
and Social Process
Fromm: Individual
and Social Origins of Neurosis
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Gaunilo: In Behalf of the Fool
Griffiths: Psilocybin
can occasion mystical-type experiences … spiritual significance
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Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto
Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against
Helping the Poor
Harvey: The Malice of Inanimates
Hauser: Why
isn’t my pocket calculator a thinking thing?
Heinlein: All You Zombies!
Hollander: “What is the Use of a Brain”
from Scientific Phrenology
Hume:
Of Liberty and Necessity
Hume:
Of Miracles
Hume: Of the Idea of Necessary
Connection
Hume: Problem of Evil
Humphrey &
Dennett: Speaking
for Our Selves
Humphrey: The Uses of Consciousness
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Ingersoll: Individuality
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Jackson: Epiphenomenal
Qualia
James:
Does Consciousness Exist?
Jamieson:
Against Zoos
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Kafka: Before the Law
Kant: What is Enlightenment?
Kipling: The
White Man’s Burden
Knox: Towards a Philosophy
of Humor
Kunzru: You are Cyborg
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Lanier: You Can’t Argue
with a Zombie
Lappe: Like
Driving a Cadillac
Le Guin: The
Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Leiber: Space-Time for Springers
Lewis: Paradoxes
of Time Travel (pg.67-80)
Locke: A Letter Concerning
Toleration
Locke: Of Identity & Diversity
Locke: Of the Extent of
Human Knowledge
Luxemburg: The
Janius Pamphlet (Chapters 1, 8)
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Marx: Communist
Manifesto
Marx: Inaugural
Address to the 1st International
Marx: Letter
to Lincoln
Marx: The British
Rule in India
Marx: The Future
Results of the British Rule in India
Materialism and Idealism:
Selections from Hobbes, Berkeley
McGinn: Apes, Humans, Aliens, Vampires, and Robots
McIntosh: White
Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
McTaggart: The Unreality of Time
Mill: On Liberty
Mill: Speech in
Favor of Capital Punishment
Mill: The Negro Question
Milton: Areopegitica
Minsky: Conscious Machines
Moody: Conversations with
Zombies
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Nagel: Death
Nagel: What is it like
to be a bat?
Naturalizing
the Soul & Scientific Revolution:
Selections from Aristotle, Galileo, Descartes
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Paley: Teleological Argument
Park: The
Function of Fiction
Parmenides: On
Nature
Plato: Phaedo (selections)
Plato: The Ring of Gyges (from The
Republic)
Plato: Timaeus
(selections)
Plotz: Gimme
Some Skin
Plutarch: The Ship of Theseus
Pojman: The
Case Against Affirmative Action
Povinelli & Vonk: Chimpanzee minds
Premack: Teaching
language to an ape
Putnam: Brains in a Vat
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Quine: Two Dogmas of Empiricism
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Rachels: Does
Morality Depend on Religion?
Ridley: The New Eugenics
Roosevelt: Second Inaugural Address
Rowe: The
Cosmological Argument
Russell:
The Case for Socialism
Russell:
The Ethics of War
Russell:
Why I Am Not A
Christian
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Saletan: Wok the Dog
Sanford: Where was I?
Sartre: Existentialism is a
Humanism
Searle:
Is
the Brain a Digital Computer?
Searle:
Minds, Brains, and
Programs
Sellars:
Is There a Synthetic A Priori?
Shaw: “Socialism
and Liberty” from The Intelligent
Woman's Guide to Socialism …
Singer: A Vegetarian Philosophy
Singer: Famine, Affluence, and
Poverty
Singer: The
Freedom to Ridicule Religion
Singer: The
Singer Solution to World Poverty
Sober: What
is Wrong with Intelligent Design
Sontag: Fascinating Fascism
Stevens: Anecdote of the Jar
Stewart: The
Limits of Trooghaft
Swift: A
Modest Proposal
Swinburne: Mind-Body
Dualism (Interview, Science and Religion News)
Swinburne: The Existence of
God
Swinburne: The Justification of
Theism
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Too Many Monkeys
Turner & Sahakian:
Neuroethics
of Cognitive. Enhancement
Twain: Comments on the Moro
Massacre
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Van
den Haag: The
Ultimate Punishment: A Defense
Van
Gelder: The
Deep Blue Yonder
Varzi:
Doughnuts
Vogel: Harder Times:
Undocumented Workers and the U.S.
Informal Economy
Voltaire: “On Religion”
Voltaire: A Treatise on Toleration
Vonnegut: Harrison Bergeron
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Wannsee Protocol
Warren: On the Moral
and Legal Status of Abortion
Williams: The
Myth of Passage
Winstanley: “Declaration from the Poor
Oppressed of England”
Woods: The Communist
Manifesto After 150 Years
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