- Philosophical Terms and Methods (handed out in class)
- What is an argument? (Monty Python)
- How to Read a Philosophy Paper (handed out in class)
- Jenkins, "The Philosophy of Flirting" 1/28
- Nolan, "The Varieties of Flirtatious Experience" 1/28
- Mind's I Ch 8: "Mark III Beast" 1/30
- Allen, "Star Witness" 1/30
- New Pleo dinosaur robot (more) (more) (YouTube videos)
- Video of "Pleo torture" -- why does this upset some people?
- Drawing the Line: Can animals be persons?
- Wikipedia: Alex the parrot
- Language Log's critical reception of various animal communication stories
- Mind's I Ch 4-5 2/4
- Story: "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" 2/4
- Movie: Blade Runner
(IMDB)
(Wikipedia)
(Philosophical issues in the movie)
- Lectures: AI and the Turing Test
- Wikipedia on ELIZA (Try it out)
- What's an Agent Anyway? A Sociological Case Study (1993)
- WIRED on Real-life Turing Tests | Criticism by Stuart Shieber
- Wikipedia on AI
- Feldman Ch 1-3 2/11
- Lectures: What is Life?
- van Inwagen, Ch 9 and part of Ch 10 2/13
- Lectures: Dualism vs. Materialism
- Lectures: Arguments from Privileged Access and Inverted Spectrums
- Armstrong, "Is Introspective Knowledge Incorrigible?" (optional)
- Heil, "Privileged Access" (optional)
- Lectures: Leibniz's Law: Legitimate and Illegitimate Uses
- Lectures: Mental Causation
- "Death Speaks" 2/27
- Goldman, "Actions, Predictions, and Books of Life" (optional)
- Kane Ch 1-2 2/27
- Stace, "The Problem of Free Will" 2/27
- Lectures: Determinism and Free Will
- Lectures: Compatibilism
- van Inwagen Ch 11 3/10-3/12
- Kane Ch 3-5 3/10-3/12
- Lectures: Criticism of the Compatibilist's Analysis of "Could Have Done Otherwise"
- Lectures: The Consequence Argument for Incompatibilism
- Taylor, "Freedom and Determinism" 3/10-3/12
- Lectures: Agent-Causation Theories
- Kane Ch 6, 7, 12 (optional)
- Movie: The Matrix (IMDB) (Wikipedia) (Philosophical issues in the movie)
- Story: Cory Doctorow's "Truncat"
- Armstrong, "The Nature of Mind" 3/26
- Lycan, "Machine Consciousness" 3/26
- Lectures: Behaviorism vs. the Causal Theory of Mind
- Wikipedia on sorting algorithms
- Sorting algorithms animated
- LEGO Logic Gates
- YouTube of the first (fully mechanical) computer (see Wikipedia entry on Charles Babbage)
- Wikipedia: Turing Machines
- Block, "What is Functionalism?" (optional)
- Mind's I Ch 26: "A Conversation with Einstein's Brain" 3/31
- Playing Records by Looking at Them
- Lectures: "A Conversation with Einstein's Brain"
- Mind's I Ch 22: Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs" 3/31
- Lectures: Searle's Chinese Room
- Jackson, "Epiphenomenal Qualia" and "What Mary Knew" (optional)
- Armstrong, "What is Consciousness?" (optional)
- Lectures: Numerical Identity and Identity over Time
- Lectures: What is Personal Identity?
- Lectures: Some Problem Cases about Personal Identity
- Story: Philip K. Dick, "Impostor" (movie version at IMDB) 4/9
- Cloning
- Clone vs. Clone
- NYT MAGAZINE on Human Cloning
- WIRED on cloning
- New Scientist: Cloning FAQ
- New Scientist on Cloning
- Mind's I Ch 13: Dennett, "Where Am I?" 4/9
- Story: Egan, "Learning to Be Me" 4/9
- Perry, Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality (not online) 4/16 and following classes
- Lectures: Perry's First Night
- Lectures: Perry's Second Night
- Mind-Uploading
- Story: Cory Doctorow's Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom, Chapter 3
- Live Forever
- 2050 - and immortality is within our grasp
- Mind Uploading Home Page
- A Problem with Mind-Copying
- Parfit, "What We Believe Ourselves To Be" 4/21
- Lectures: Fission Cases
The Calvin and Hobbes Clone Series - Story: Selections from The Ophiuchi Hotline
- Mind's I Ch 6: "The Princess Ineffable" (optional)
- Movie: The Prestige
(IMDB)
(Wikipedia)
(Plot Summary)
- Lectures: Perry's Third Night
- Feldman Ch 4,6
- Feldman Ch 7 (optional)
- Parfit, "The Unimportance of Identity"
- Lectures: Parfit on Survival
- Pryor, "What's So Bad About Living in the Matrix?"
- Feldman Ch 8-9
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Death (optional)
- Nagel, "Death" (optional)