Texts:
René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998).
Rocco Gennaro, Mind And Brain: A Dialogue on the Mind-Body Problem (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1996).
Justin Leiber, Can Animals And Machines Be Persons?: A Dialogue (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1985).
On the web:
Paul M. Churchland, “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 78 (1981), pp. 67-90 (on JSTOR: 2025900)
David K. Lewis, “An Argument for the Identity Theory,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 63 (1966), pp. 17-25 (on JSTOR: 2024524)
J. J. C. Smart, “Sensations and Brain Processes,” The Philosophical Review, vol. 68 (1959), pp. 141-156 (on JSTOR: 2182164)
A. M. Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Mind, n.s. vol. 59 (1950), pp. 433-460 (on JSTOR: 2251299)
Selections from Plato’s Phaedo: 73a-76a, 77d-84b, 85d-86d, 91e-95a, 97b-99c (handout: 2up, hlf)
Selections from Aristotle’s De Anima: bk. II, chs. 1-3, 4 (through 415b), bk. III, ch. 5 (handout: 2up, hlf)
Selections from Descartes on animals as automata: from Treatise on Man and letters to the Marquis of Newcastle, Henry More, and Mersenne (handout: 2up, hlf)
Hume on personal identity: A Treatise of Human Nature, sels. from bk. I, pt. IV, sects. II, V, VI, Appendix (handout: 2up, hlf)