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Lecture Notes

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LEC # LECTURE NOTES
1 Minds and Machines (PDF)
2 Searle’s Chinese Room Argument (PDF)
3 Searle’s Chinese Room Argument, contd. (PDF)
4 Dualism (PDF)
5 Dualism, contd. (PDF)
6 Behaviorism, contd. (PDF)
7 The Identity Theory (PDF)
8 The Identity Theory, contd. (PDF)
9 Functionalism (PDF)
10 Functionalism, contd. (PDF)
11 Functionalism, contd. (PDF)
12 Content: Intentionality and Externalism (PDF)
13 Content: Intentionality and Externalism, contd. (PDF)
14 Content: Psychosemantics (PDF)
15 Content: Psychosemantics, contd. (PDF)
16 Anomalous Monism, contd. (PDF)
17 Mental Causation, contd. (PDF)
18 Consciousness and Intentionality (PDF)
19 Consciousness and Intentionality, contd. (PDF)
20 Consciousness and its Place in Nature (PDF)
21 Consciousness and its Place in Nature, contd. (PDF)
Consciousness and its Place in Nature, contd. (PDF)
22 The Knowledge Argument (PDF)
23 The Explanatory Gap and Kripke’s Argument Revisited (PDF)
24 The Explanatory Gap and Kripke’s Argument Revisited, contd. (PDF)
25 Hill and Nagel on the Appearance of Contingency, contd. (PDF)