Phi 109-02
Fall 2013
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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.

10/22   introduction: Plato and Aristotle on the soul (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)reading guide
10/24   Plato, Phaedo, 73a-76a, 85d-86d, 91e-95a, 97b-99c (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)reading guide
10/29 wrt1 Descartes, sels. from Discourse on Method, pt. 5, letters, Meditations, VI (Rosenthal, pp. 19-30)reading guide
10/31   Hobbes, selections from Leviathan and De Corpore (Rosenthal, pp. 43-52)reading guide
11/5   Hume, Treatise, bk. I, pt. IV (sels.) (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)reading guide
11/7 ppr1 Gennaro, Mind And Brain, 1st night (Gennaro, pp. 1-21)reading guide
11/12   ———, 2nd night (Gennaro, pp. 22-45)reading guide
11/14   ———, 3rd night (Gennaro, pp. 46-67)reading guide
11/19   Smart, “Sensations and Brain Processes” (Rosenthal, pp. 53-66)reading guide
11/21 ppr2 Shaffer, “Mental Events and the Brain” and Cornman, “The Identity of Mind and Body” (Rosenthal, pp. 67-79)reading guide
  Thanksgiving break
12/3   Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” §§1-5, 6(6), 7 (pp. 432-442, 450-451, 454-460)on JSTOR at 2251299reading guide
12/5 wrt2 Putnam, “The Nature of Mental States” (Rosenthal, pp. 150-161)reading guide
12/10   Jackson, “Epiphenomenal Qualia” and “Postscript on Qualia” (Rosenthal, pp. 249-259, 279-281)reading guide
12/12   Chalmers, “The Puzzle of Conscious Experience” (pp. 90-100)—on the author’s site at http://consc.net/papers/puzzle.pdf and on EBSCO at AN 10684238reading guide
Fri.
12/20
ppr3 exam week