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Introduction
Louise Antony, The Mental and The Physical - excerpt I
Teresa of Ávila, René Descartes and the deceiving demon
ChristiaMercer. 2016. Descartes’ debt to Teresa of Ávila, or why we should work on women in the history of philosophy.
René Descartes. 1641. Meditations on first philosophy. Meditation I.
René Descartes, Elisabeth of Bohemia and the mind-body problem
René Descartes. 1641. Meditations on first philosophy. Meditation II.
Elisabeth of Bohemia. 1643. Correspondence with René Descartes.
Dualism, Behaviorism & Identity Theory
Paul Churchland, Matter & Consciousness I
(Ch. 2 - The Ontological Problem)
&
II (Ch. 3 - Reductive Materialism)
Jaegwon Kim, Philosophy of Mind (excerpt)
Suilin Lavelle. Physicalism, Identity Theory, and Functionalism (video)
Functionalism
Andy Clark, Mindware (excerpt)
Louise Antony, The Mental and The Physical - excerpt I
I
Functionalism & Reductionism
Patricia Churchland. 1986. Reductionism and Anti-reductionism in functionalist theories of mind.
Peggy Seriès & Mark Sprevak 2015. From intelligent machines to the human brain (excerpt)
Consciousness I
Thomas Nagel. 1874. What is it like to be a bat?
Amy Kind, Nagel's "What is it to be a bat" argument against physicalism
.
Caspar Hare,
Science, can it teach us everything?
Consciousness II
Susan Blackmore. 2012. Consciousness: An introduction (Ch. 2).
Daniel Dennett. 2003. The illusion of consciousness (video)
Louise Antony, The Mental and The Physical - excerpt III
Mystery or Problem?
Patricia Churchland on the explanatory gap & Noam Chomsky on Mystery vs. Problem (video)
Brian Treanor & Brendan Sweetman, Gabriel Honoré Marcel,
Section 6,
SEP entry (ONLY Section 6!)
Embodied Cognition
Robert Wilson & Lucia Foglia,
Embodied Cognition, SEP entry.
Self & Mind: Ego or bundle? Socially constituted?
Susan Blackmore. 2012. Consciousness: An introduction (Ch. 7).
John Doris 2009.
Talking to ourselves
(excerpt)
Self or no self?
Monima Chadha. 2016. No-self and the phenomenology of agency.
Alison Gopnik. How a 18-century philosopher helped me solve my midlife crisis.
Evolution of the mind
Suilin Lavelle & Kenny Smith. 2015. Do our modern skulls house stone-age minds?
Bertram Malle. Does evolutionary psychology explain mind? (video)
Laurie Santos
.
M
onkey minds, human minds, and theatre
(video)
Alien minds I: Non-human animals
Alison Gopnik. 2016. How Animals Think.
Kristin Andrews. 2009. Politics or Metaphysics? On attributing psychological properties to animals.
Alien minds II: Extended minds
Catalin Farkas. 2012. Two versions of the extended mind thesis.
Alien minds III: Plant minds
Paco Calvo. 2007. The quest for plant cognition.
Stefano Mancuso. 2010. The roots of plant intelligence.
Alien minds IV: Artificial consciousness
Stanislas Dehaene, Hakwan Lau & Sid Kouider. 2017. What is consciousness, and could machines have it?
Alien minds V: Artificial Intelligence & the Singularity Hypothesis
Joseph Corabi & Susan Schneider. 2014. If you upload, will you survive?
David Chalmers. The Singularity: A philosophical analysis (excerpt)
Alien minds VI: Software immortality?
Diane Proudfoot. 2012. Software Immortals: Science or Faith?
Implicit bias
Jules Holroyd. 2012. Responsibility for implicit bias
Sexual orientation
Esa Díaz-León. In press. Sexual Orientations: The desire view.
Creativity
Margaret Boden. 2009. Creativity in a nutshell.
Brain reading
Frédérique de Vignemont. 2006. Brainreading of perceptual experiences
Philosophy & Depression
Jennifer Mundale. 2004. That way madness lies: At the intersection of philosophy and clinical psychology.
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