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Reading &
Exam Schedule for Novy’s PHIL3395: Philosophy of Mind F06 |
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Précis |
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The Story Thus Far |
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08/28 |
Hollander: “What is the Use of a Brain” from Scientific Phrenology |
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08/31 |
Dennett: Introduction |
The
Mind’s I |
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09/01 |
Plato:
Selections from The Phaedo |
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09/04 |
Labor
Day |
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09/06 |
Naturalizing
the Soul & Scientific Revolution: Selections from
Aristotle, Galileo, Descartes |
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Grimes |
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09/08 |
Knowledge
of Mind & Matter: Selections from Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy |
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09/11 |
On
Cartesian Dualism: Selections from Descartes, Arnauld,
Locke |
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09/13 |
Materialism
and Idealism: Selections from Hobbes, |
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Jones |
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What is a Mind? |
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09/15 |
What Sort of Thing is a
Mind? pp. 1-33 |
What
is a Mind? |
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09/18 |
What Sort of Thing is a
Mind? pp. 33-53 |
What
is a Mind? |
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09/20 |
Turner:
Neuroethics of Cognitive. Enhancement |
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Chatterjee:
Cosmetic Neurology |
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09/22 |
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Launias |
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Consciousness |
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09/25 |
What Does it Mean to Be
Conscious? pp. 54-79 |
What
is a Mind? |
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09/27 |
What Does it Mean to Be
Conscious? pp. 79-94 |
What
is a Mind? |
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09/29 |
Turing: Computing
Machinery and Intelligence |
The
Mind’s I |
Norris |
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10/02 |
Searle: Minds, Brains,
and Programs |
The
Mind’s I |
Pugh |
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10/04 |
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10/06 |
EXAM
#1 |
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10/09 |
Moody:
Conversations with Zombies |
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Smith |
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Flanagan & Polger:
Zombies and the function of consciousness |
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10/11 |
Churchland
& Churchland: Neural worlds and real worlds |
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Beard |
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Churchland: How do
neurons know? |
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Emotions in Mind |
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10/13 |
Where Do Emotions Fit?
pp. 96-130 |
What
is a Mind? |
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10/16 |
Gordon:
Emotions & knowledge |
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Bartels & Zeki:
Neural basis of romantic love |
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Denio |
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10/18 |
Lem: The Seventh Sally |
The
Mind’s I |
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Borges:
The Circular Ruins |
The Mind’s I |
Rea |
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10/20 |
Fall
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Evolving Minds |
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10/23 |
Did the Mind Evolve?
pp. 131-158 |
What
is a Mind? |
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10/25 |
Humphrey & Dennett:
Speaking for Our Selves |
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10/27 |
Povinelli & Vonk:
Chimpanzee minds |
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Premack: Teaching
language to an ape |
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Lovett |
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10/30 |
Dawkins: Selfish Genes
and Selfish Memes |
The
Mind’s I |
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Me, Myself, I |
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11/01 |
What is a self? pp.
159-188 |
What
is a Mind? |
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11/03 |
Harding:
On Having No Head |
The Mind’s I |
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Borges.
Borges and I |
The Mind’s I |
Gorman |
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11/06 |
Dennett: The Self as a
Responding – and Responsible – Artifact |
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Rhea |
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11/08 |
Miedaner:
Soul of Martha, a Beast |
The Mind’s I |
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Miedaner:
Soul of the Mark III Beast |
The Mind’s I |
Morshedi |
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Artifacts & Minds |
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11/10 |
Dennett:
Where am I? (MI) |
The Mind’s I |
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The
Mind’s I |
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11/13 |
Hauser: Why isn’t my
pocket calculator a thinking thing? Guest
Speaker |
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Frana |
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11/15 |
Could a Machine Have a Mind? pp. 189-221 |
What is a Mind? |
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11/17 |
Van Gelder: The Deep Blue Yonder |
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Ridings |
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Minding Behavior |
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11/20 |
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Ward |
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11/22 |
Thanksgiving
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11/24 |
Thanksgiving
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11/27 |
How Do We Link Behavior
with Mental States? pp. 222-243 |
What
is a Mind? |
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11/29 |
How Do We Link Behavior
with Mental States? pp. 243-257 |
What
is a Mind? |
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12/01 |
Frith: Mind Blindness
and the Brain in Autism |
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Kennedy |
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12/04 |
Bowman: The Importance
of Whitehead for Contemporary Theology
Guest Speaker |
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Bowman |
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12/06 |
Nagel:
What is it like to be a bat? |
The Mind’s I |
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Smullyan: Is God a
Taoist? |
The
Mind’s I |
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12/08 |
Reading
Day |
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12/15 |
Exam #2 (10:00-12:00) |
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