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Announcements, Readings, and Lecture Notes
Zoom links for course meetings and office hours
Canvas page for course
Admin handouts:
My Philosophical Terms and Methods
For Wed Aug 19:
For Mon Aug 24:
For Wed Aug 26:
For Mon Aug 31:
For Wed Sept 2:
For Wed Sept 9:
This includes some upcoming texts:
Re-read more closely the Terms and Methods page on Conditionals that we read earlier in class but postponed discussing
My webnotes Introducing Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)
p. 14 to middle p. 26 of Gennaro textbook (sections 1.3 and 1.4)
Re-read earlier webnotes on Our Private Mental Lives (also linked in Webnotes section below)
My webnotes Limits to Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)
Read for this session: continue van Inwagen to top p. 241
Huxley
Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth and Descartes
van Inwagen p. 226–middle p. 229 and pp. 260–262
p. 26 to p. 44 of Gennaro textbook (end of section 1.4, and sections 2.1–2.3)
Cory Doctorow, Truncat
Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
pp. 60–86 of Gennaro textbook
Chapter 2 of Leiber textbook
Lycan appendix
Hoftadter dialogue on Turing Test
Optional reading: Turing
Searle’s Chinese Room
Einstein’s Brain – summary
Chapter 3 of Leiber textbook
Greg Egan, Learning to Be Me
Schwitzgebel and Garza
What is Philosophy? — I reorganized these notes a bit from the handout used in class
Our Big Questions
Course Map: Organizing Vocabulary
Meeting 3: Mental States and Other Minds
Meeting 4: Interpreting Animal Behavior
This includes things we’ve already covered, plus some upcoming topics: