Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. Sometimes a reading-guide handout will specify the details of an assignment, and it may include passages that are part of your assignment. Boxed dates are default due dates for papers (and are links to paper assignments when bold).
8/28 | introduction | |
8/31 | Plato | Phaedo, selections (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)—reading guide |
9/2 | ———, selections (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)—reading guide | |
9/4 | Aristotle | De Anima, selections (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)—reading guide |
9/7 | Descartes | sels. from Discourse on Method, pt. 5, and letters (Rosenthal, pp. 19-25)—reading guide |
9/9 | Meditations, VI, sels. (Rosenthal, pp. 25-30)—reading guide | |
9/11 | Hobbes | selections from Leviathan and De Corpore (Rosenthal, pp. 43-52)—reading guide |
9/14 | Hume | Treatise, bk. I, pt. IV (sels. through 1.4.6.5, handout, pp. 1-6) (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)—reading guide |
9/16 | ——— (sels., from 1.4.6.6, handout, pp. 6-15) (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)—reading guide | |
9/18 | Gennaro | Mind And Brain, 1st night (Gennaro, pp. 1-21)—reading guide |
9/21 | ———, 2nd night (Gennaro, pp. 22-45)—reading guide | |
9/23 | ———, 3rd night (Gennaro, pp. 46-67)—reading guide | |
9/25 | Smart | “Sensations and Brain Processes” (Rosenthal, pp. 53-59)—reading guide |
9/28 | ——— (Rosenthal, pp. 59-66)—reading guide | |
9/30 | Shaffer & Cornman |
Shaffer, “Mental Events and the Brain” and Cornman, “The Identity of Mind and Body” (Rosenthal, pp. 67-79)—reading guide |
10/2 | Turing | “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” §§1-5, 6(6), 7 (JSTOR, pp. 432-442, 450-451, 454-460)—reading guide |
10/5 | Putnam | “The Nature of Mental States” (Rosenthal, pp. 150-156)—reading guide |
10/7 | ——— (Rosenthal, pp. 156-161)—reading guide | |
10/9 | Jackson | “Epiphenomenal Qualia” and “Postscript on Qualia” (Rosenthal, pp. 249-259, 279-281)—reading guide |
10/12 | Chalmers | “The Puzzle of Conscious Experience” (on line and on EBSCO at AN 10684238, pp. 90-96, col. 1)—reading guide |
10/14 | ——— (on line and on EBSCO at AN 10684238, pp. 96-100)—reading guide |