Philosophy of Mind
Description
This course will be an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of mind and body that is contemporary philosophy of mind. In the 21st century it is no longer possible to study the philosophy of mind without engaging in research that comes from a number of different fields. The purpose of this course is to provide students with a foundation in the core areas of philosophy of mind through a range of readings from: the history of philosophy and psychology (both East and West), contemporary cognitive science, psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, as well as contemporary phenomenology, buddhist studies, experimental philosophy, and behavioral economics. Attention will be given to comparative philosophy and interdisciplinary research.
Assignments
Documents
- Consciousness and its Place in Nature by D. Chalmers [PDF]
- What is Wrong with Strong Necessities? by P. Goff and D. Papineau [PDF]
- Must Physicalism imply the Supervenience of the Mental on the Physical by B. Montero [PDF]
- Realistic Monism -- Why Physicalism entails Panpsychism by G. Strawson [PDF]
- Emergentisms, Both Ancient and Modern by J. Ganeri [PDF]
- On the search for the Neural Correlates of Consciousness by D. Chalmers [PDF]
- Two Neural Correlates of Consciousness by N. Block [PDF]
- Are There Neural Correlates of Consciousness? by A. Noe and E. Thompson [PDF]
- The Extended Mind by A. Clark and D. Chalmers [PDF]
- Intrinsic Content, Active Memory, and the Extended Mind by A. Clark [PDF]
- The Extended Mind: Born to be Wild? A Lesson from Action-Understanding by N. Gangopadhyay [PDF]
- Is Consciousness Primary by M. Bitbol [PDF]
- Neuro-phenomenology by F. Varela [PDF]
- The Gesture of Awareness by N. Depraz, F. Varela, and P. Vermersch [PDF]
- Dharmakirti's Dualism by D. Arnold [PDF]
- Inner Time Consciousness and Pre-Reflective Awareness by D. Zahavi [PDF]
- Phenomenological Reduction and Yogic Meditation by R. Puligandla [PDF]
- Turning, Searle, and the Wizard of OZ by N. Cook [PDF]
- Expecting the World by A. Clark [PDF]
- Hattori, Dignaga on Perception [PDF]
- Seeing Absence by A. Farennikova [PDF]
- Seeing Absence or Absence of Seeing? by J. Martin and J. Dokic [PDF]
- No Black Scorpion is Falling by N. Guha [PDF]
Links
- New Philosopher: Interview with Andy Clark and David Chalmers on the Extended Mind Hypothesis
- The Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness by E. Husserl
- Temporal Consciousness by B. Dainton
- The Problem of Perception by Tim Crane
- The Contents of Perception by Susanna Siegel