Phi 109-01
Fall 2015
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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
8/31Plato 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
9/4Aristotle De Anima, selections (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)—reading guide
9/7Descartes 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
9/11Hobbes selections from Leviathan and De Corpore (Rosenthal, pp. 43-52)—reading guide
9/14Hume 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
9/18Gennaro 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
9/25Smart “Sensations and Brain Processes” (Rosenthal, pp. 53-59)—reading guide
9/28  ——— (Rosenthal, pp. 59-66)—reading guide
9/30Shaffer &
Cornman
Shaffer, “Mental Events and the Brain” and Cornman, “The Identity of Mind and Body” (Rosenthal, pp. 67-79)—reading guide
10/2Turing “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” §§1-5, 6(6), 7 (JSTOR, pp. 432-442, 450-451, 454-460)—reading guide
10/5Putnam “The Nature of Mental States” (Rosenthal, pp. 150-156)—reading guide
10/7  ——— (Rosenthal, pp. 156-161)—reading guide
10/9Jackson “Epiphenomenal Qualia” and “Postscript on Qualia” (Rosenthal, pp. 249-259, 279-281)—reading guide
10/12Chalmers “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