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.
| 10/18 | introduction | |
| 10/20 | Plato | Phaedo, 77d-84b (handout: 2up, hlf) |
| 10/22 | (writing 1) | Phaedo, 73a-76a, 85d-86d, 91e-95a, 97b-99c (handout: 2up, hlf) |
| 10/25 | Aristotle | De Anima, bk. II, chs. 1-3, 4 (through 415b), bk. III, ch. 5 (handout: 2up, hlf) |
| 10/27 | Descartes (writing 2) | Discourse on Method, pt. 5 (sels.) and other sels. on animals as automata (Cress, pp. 23-26, 31-33, and handout: 2up, hlf) |
| 10/29 | Meditations, Meditation 2 (Cress, pp. 63-69) | |
| 11/1 | (paper 1) | Meditations, Meditation 6 (Cress, pp. 92-103) |
| 11/3 | Hume | A Treatise on Human Nature, bk. IV, pt. IV, sects. II, V (sels.) (handout: 2up, hlf) |
| 11/5 | Treatise, bk. IV, pt. IV, sect. VI, Appendix (sels.) (handout: 2up, hlf) | |
| 11/8 | Smart | “Sensations and Brain Processes,” pp. 141-148 (on JSTOR: 2182164) |
| 11/10 | “Sensations and Brain Processes,” pp. 148-156 (on JSTOR: 2182164) | |
| 11/12 | Lewis | “An Argument for the Identity Theory” (on JSTOR: 2024524) |
| 11/15 | Churchland | “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes,” §§I-III, pp. 67-78 (on JSTOR: 2025900)—key to notation |
| 11/17 | (writing 3) | “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes,” §§IV-V, pp. 78-90 (on JSTOR: 2025900)—key to notation |
| 11/19 | Turing | “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” §§1-5, 6(6), 7, pp. 432-442, 450-451, 454-460 (on JSTOR: 2251299) |
| Thanksgiving break | ||
| 11/29 | Gennaro | Mind And Brain, 1st night (Gennaro, pp. 1-21) |
| 12/1 | Mind And Brain, 2nd night (Gennaro, pp. 22-45) | |
| 12/3 | Mind And Brain, 3rd night (Gennaro, pp. 46-67) | |
| 12/6 | Leiber (paper 2) | Can Animals And Machines Be Persons?, 1st morning (Leiber, pp. xi, 1-22) |
| 12/8 | Can Animals And Machines Be Persons?, afternoon (Leiber, pp. 23-42) | |
| 12/10 | Can Animals And Machines Be Persons?, following morning (Leiber, pp. 43-67) | |