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Updated May 13, 2010
An Accumulation
of Readings for Novy’s Classes
Links
may or may not be active beyond the semester in which that reading is
assigned.
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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
Aquinas: The Five
Proofs for the Existence of God
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
Baron-Cohen: The
Biology of Imagination
Bartels & Zeki: Neural
basis of romantic love
Baudrillard: Simulacra and
Simulations
Baxter: People
or Penguins
Beauvoir: “Woman as Other”
from The Second Sex
Bedau:
The
Case Against the Death Penalty
Benjamin:
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction
Bisson: They’re
Made out of Meat
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 & MacKinnon: The
Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance
Dworkin:
Intercourse:
Occupation/Collaboration
Dworkin: Pornography
Happens to Women
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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)
Freire: Pedagogy
of the Oppressed (Chapter 2)
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
Gramsci: Men or
Machines?
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?
Keller & Nelson: Presentists Should
believe in Time-Travel
Kipling: The
White Man’s Burden
Klein: The Shock Doctrine: a discussion
Knox: Towards a Philosophy
of Humor
Kotzee: Why
Hobbits Cannot Exist
Kunzru: You are Cyborg
Kurrild-Klitgaard: The Paradox of Rebellion
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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
Lenin: Socialism
and Religion
Levine & Sober: What’s historical
about historical materialism?
Lewis: Holes
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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Mackie: Evil and
Omnipotence
Mao “Study”
(Chapter 33 - The Little Red Book)
Marable: “Introduction” (How
Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America)
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
Moseley: Just War
Theory
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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
Pannekoek Marxism
and Darwinism (sections iv-vii, ix, x)
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
Robertson:
The
Question of Human Cloning
Roosevelt: Second Inaugural Address
Rowe: The
Cosmological Argument
Roy: The New American
Century
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?
Sen:
Development
Thinking at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Shaw: “Socialism
and Liberty” from The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism …
Singer, D.: Why
we need a new manifesto
Singer, P.: A
Vegetarian Philosophy
Singer, P.: Famine,
Affluence, and Poverty
Singer, P.: The
Freedom to Ridicule Religion
Singer, P.: 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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