Phil 101: Index of All Materials on this Website

This includes some upcoming texts:

• Pojman on Identifying Arguments
• My Guidelines on Reading Philosophy

• Links on animal mentality

• Optional: Selections from Dr Dolittle’s Delusion
• Leiber textbook Chapter 1, also bottom p. 34–top p. 39
• Colin Allen, “Star Witness”

• My webnotes on Basic Ontology (also linked in Webnotes section below)
• My webnotes on Substances (also linked in Webnotes section below)

• p. 5 to bottom p. 13 of Gennaro textbook (sections 1.1 and 1.2)
• My webnotes on Dualism and Materialism (also linked in Webnotes section below)
• van Inwagen to middle p. 230
• Reading Philosophy (also linked in Admin section above)

• 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)
• pp. 14 to 21 of Gennaro textbook (section 1.3)
• van Inwagen to bottom p. 231
• Re-read earlier webnotes on Our Private Mental Lives (also linked in Webnotes section below)
• p. 21 to middle p. 26 of Gennaro textbook (section 1.4)
• van Inwagen to top p. 233
• My webnotes Limits to Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)

• Leiber textbook Chapter 1, also bottom p. 34–top p. 39
• Colin Allen, “Star Witness”

• My webnotes on Basic Ontology (also linked in Webnotes section below)
• My webnotes on Substances (also linked in Webnotes section below)

• p. 5 to bottom p. 13 of Gennaro textbook (sections 1.1 and 1.2)
• My webnotes on Dualism and Materialism (also linked in Webnotes section below)
• van Inwagen to top p. 233
• Reading Philosophy (also linked in Admin section above)

• 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

: Remember for Wednesday we are reading Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, Chapter 3.

This includes things we’ve already covered, plus some upcoming topics:

• Varieties of Mental States
• Our Private Mental Lives
• Mental Vocabulary
• Animal Mentality

• Introducing Leibniz’s Law
• Limits to Leibniz’s Law
• Causal Arguments against Dualism

• Other Minds and the Turing Test
• Searle’s Chinese Room

• Handout on computing history
• Discussion questions on Egan and Hofstadter
• Intensional and Intentional — linked as optional further reading
• Realism, Reduction, Error-Theory
• Precision and Messiness in Philosophy
• Huxley

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2026-09-14 18:39 EDT