Philosophy of Mind Handouts and Lecture Notes

General Handouts

• Participation in Sections
• Philosophical Terms and Methods
• How To Read a Philosophy Paper

• Topics for First Paper
• Topics for Second Paper
• Take-Home Exam
  

• Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper
• Policies on Late Papers, etc.
• What the Different Grades Mean
• What the Different Grades Mean (for grad students)
  

Lecture Notes

• Dualism vs. Materialism
  • Substances
  • Supervenience
  • Stanford Encyclopedia on Physicalism

  • Arguments for Dualism
  • Arguments against Dualism
  • Stanford Encyclopedia on Epiphenomenalism

• Different Kinds of Mental States
  • Stanford Encyclopedia on Propositional Attitudes

• Phil 3 Notes on The Turing Test and Behaviorism
  • ELIZA
  • Stuart Shieber, "Lessons from a Restricted Turing Test"
  • Drew McDermott, "How Intelligent is Deep Blue?"
  • New Scientist series on AI and A-Life
  • ZDNet Special on AI

• Arguments for and against Behaviorism
  • Stanford Encyclopedia on Behaviorism
  • Alex Byrne on Behaviorism

• Identity Theory
  • Scientific Identities
  • More Objections to Identity Theory
  • Stanford Encyclopedia on Identity Theory

• Functionalism
  • Turing Machines and Machine Tables
  • Stanford Encyclopedia on Turing Machines
  • Stanford Encyclopedia on Multiple Realizability

  • Ramsey/Lewis Method of Defining Terms
  • Lewis vs. Orthodox Functionalism

• Block's Troubles with Functionalism

• Searle's Chinese Room
  • Phil 3 Notes on "A Conversation with Einstein's Brain"

• Externalism
• Self-Knowledge
  

• Perception
  • Sense-Data and the Argument from Illusion
  • Stanford Encyclopedia on the Epistemology of Perception

  • Representational and Qualitative Features of Experience
  • Stanford Encyclopedia on Qualia
  • Stanford Encyclopedia on Representational Theories of Consciousness
  • The Primary Quality/Secondary Quality Distinction

  • The Inverted Spectrum

• Jackson's Knowledge Argument
  • Black-and-White Mary (preliminary notes)
  • Replies to Jackson (preliminary notes)

• Mental Causation
• Davidson on Mental Causation and Anomolous Monism
• Action Theory

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