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Philosophy of the Mind

Sam Ferraro Public 25 modules Created in 2018

This course gives a broad introduction to contemporary work on the philosophy of mind. It will primarily focus on the nature of consciousness, the mind-body problem, and may include how we know the minds of other human beings, the nature of personal identity over time, as well as discussion of the theory of action.

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Module 1 · Text Descartes, Mediations II and VI
Module 2 · Text Gertler, "In Defense of Mind-Body Dualism"
Module 3 · Text Ryle, "Descartes' Myth"
Module 4 · Text Carnap, "Psychology in Physical Language"
Module 5 · Text Putnam, "Brains and Behavior"
Module 6 · Text U.T. Place, "Is Consciousness a Brain Process"
Module 7 · Text J.J.C. Smart, "Sensations and Brain Processes"
Module 8 · Text Putnam, "The Nature of Mental States"
Module 9 · Text D.M. Armstrong, "The Causal Theory of the Mind"
Module 10 · Text D. Lewis, "Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications"
Module 11 · Text Block, "Troubles with Functionalism"
Module 12 · Text Davidson, "Mental Events"
Module 13 · Text F. Jackson, "Finding the Mind in the Natural World"
Module 14 · Text Nagel, "What Is It Like To Be a Bat?"
Module 15 · Text F. Jackson, "Epiphenomenal Qualia"
Module 16 · Text D. Lewis, "What Experience Teaches"
Module 17 · Text J. Levine, "Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap"
Module 18 · Text Bandom, "Reasoning and Representing"
Module 19 · Text Brentano, "The Distinction Between Mental Physical Phenomena"
Module 20 · Text R.G. Milikan, "Biosemantics"
Module 21 · Text Putnam, "The Meaning of 'Meaning'"
Module 22 · Text Burge, "Individualism and the Mental"
Module 23 · Text Clark & Chalmers, "The Extended Mind"
Module 24 · Text Parfit, "Reductionism and Personal Identity"
Module 25 · Text A.J. Ayers, "Freedom and Necessity"

Philosophy of the Mind

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