Lectures

Lectures:

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1. Imaginative Understanding vs. Causal Explanation

  • Wednesday, January 18th. Introduction: Imaginative Understanding vs. Scientific Explanation.
  • Friday, January 20th. Nagel, 'What is it Like to be a Bat?'.
  • Monday January 23rd. Nagel, 'Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness'.
  • Wednesday, January 25th. Jackson, 'Epiphenomenal Qualia'.
  • Friday January 27th. Descartes, Second and Sixth Meditations.
  • Monday, January 30th. Ryle, 'Descartes' Myth'.

2. Functionalism

  • Wednesday, February 1st. Putnam,‘Brains and Behavior’.
  • Friday, February 3rd. Putnam, ‘The Nature of Mental States’.
  • Monday, February 6th. Putnam, ‘The Nature of Mental States’.
  • Wednesday, February 8th. Block, 'Troubles with Functionalism'.
  • Friday, February 10th. Nida-Rumelin, ‘Pseudonormal Vision’
  • Monday, February 13th. Searle, 'Can Computers Think?'.
  • Wednesday, February 15th. Frith, 'Schizophrenia'.
  • Friday, February 19th. Dennett, 'True Believers'.
  • Monday February 20th. No lecture.
  • Wednesday February 22nd. Gould, 'The Mismeasure of Man'.
  • Friday February 24th. Review.

3. Imaginative Understanding and Identity

  • Monday February 27th. Jaspers, 'Meaningful Psychic Connections'. ESSAY 1 DUE.
  • Wednesday March 1st. Jaspers, 'Meaningful Psychic Connections'.
  • Friday March 3rd. No lecture.
  • Monday, March 6th. Russell, 'Analogy'.
  • Wednesday, March 8th. Gordon, 'Folk Psychology as Simulation'.
  • Friday, March 10th. No lecture.
  • Monday, March 13th. Paul, 'Transformative Experience', chs. 1 and 2.
  • Wednesday, March 16th. Paul, 'Transformative Experience', chs. 1 and 2.
  • Friday, March 18th. Paul, 'Transformative Experience', ch. 4.
  • Monday, March 20th. Martin and Deutscher, 'Memory'.
  • Wednesday, March 22nd. Locke, 'Of Identity and Diversity', §15 and §23.
  • Friday, March 24th. Locke, 'Of Identity and Diversity', §15 and §23.
  • Monday, March 27th. Spring Recess.
  • Wednesday, March 29th. Spring Recess.
  • Friday, March 31st. Spring Recess.
  • Monday, April 3rd. Williams, 'The Self and the Future'.
  • Wednesday, April 5th. Williams, 'The Self and the Future'.
  • Friday, April 7th. Parfit, 'Personal Identity'.
  • Monday, April 10th. Parfit, 'Personal Identity'.
  • Wednesday, April 12th. Parfit, 'Personal Identity'.

4. Agency

  • Friday, April 14th. Huxley, ‘On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and Its History’.
  • Monday, April 17th. No lecture.
  • Wednesday, April 19th. Austin Andrews: Nagel, 'Other Minds'.
  • Friday, April 21st. No lecture.
  • Monday, April 24th. Libet, 'Do We Have Free Will?', Filevich et. al., 'There is No Free Won't'. ESSAY 2 DUE.
  • Wednesday, April 26th. Frankfurt, 'Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person'.
  • Friday, April 28th. Ayer, 'Freedom and Necessity'.