Philosophy of Mind
PHL 462
Fall 2007

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Papers

8/30 René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (I & II)

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfbits/dm1.pdf

René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (VI, section 3, pp. 7-12)

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfbits/dm3.pdf

9/4      Gilbert Ryle, Descartes Myth

http://falcon.tamucc.edu/~philosophy/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fall03BerkichIntro/TextRyleDescartesMistake

9/13 Andy Clark and David Chalmers, The Extended Mind

http://consc.net/papers/extended.html

9/25 J. J. C. Smart, Sensations and Brain Processes

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8108(195904)68%3A2%3C141%3ASABP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S

(Can only be accessed on campus)

10/4 Ned Block, Troubles with Functionalism

http://w3.uniroma1.it/cordeschi/Articoli/block.htm

10/18 Paul Churchland, Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-362X(198102)78%3A2%3C67%3AEMATPA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8

(Can only be accessed on campus)

10/23 Lynne Rudder Baker, Cognitive Suicide
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~lrb/files/bak04cogS.pdf

10/30 Frank Jackson, Epiphenomenal Qualia
http://members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/Mary.html

11/1 Terence Horgan, Jackson on Physical Information and Qualia
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8094(198404)34:135%3C147:JOPIAQ%3E2.0.CO;2-9
(Can only be accessed on campus)

11/ 6 David Chalmers, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
http://consc.net/papers/facing.html

11/8 Patricia Churchland, The Hornswoggle Problem
http://philosophy.ucsd.edu/faculty/pschurchland/papers/consciousnessstudies96hornswoggleprob.pdf

11/27 Bernard Williams, The Self and the Future
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8108(197004)79%3A2%3C161%3ATSATF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5

(Can only be accessed on campus)
11/29 Derek Parfit, Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons
http://falcon.tamucc.edu/~philosophy/courses/02-fall/berkich/philosophy_of_psychology_berkich/readings/parfit-divided_minds_and_the_nature_of_persons.html

12/4 Daniel Dennett, The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity
http://cogprints.org/266/00/selfctr.htm

12/6 Galen Strawson, Against Narrative
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/ld/Philos/gjs/antls.htm