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Readings

Texts

Chalmers, David, ed. Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Crane, Tim. Elements of Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Required Readings
Armstrong, David M. "The Causal Theory of the Mind." Chap. 12 in Chalmers.

Block, Ned. "Concepts of Consciousness." Chap. 24 in Chalmers.

Block, Ned. "The Mind as the Software of the Brain." Chap. 11 in An Invitation to Cognitive Science. Edited by D. Osherson, L. Gleitman, S. Kosslyn, E. Smith and S. Sternberg. Vol. 3 Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995, section 4. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/msb.html#4

Block, Ned. "Troubles with Functionalism." Chap. 14 in Chalmers.

Brentano, Franz. "The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena." Chap. 44 in Chalmers.

Burge, Tyler. "Individualism and the Mental." Chap. 55 in Chalmers.

Byrne, Alex. "Intentionality." Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, ed. J. Pfeifer and S. Sarkar (Routledge, forthcoming).

Chalmers, David J. "Consciousness and Its Place in Nature." Chap. 27 in Chalmers.

Davidson, Donald. "Mental Events." Chap. 17 in Chalmers.

Dennett, Daniel C. "True Believers." Chap. 52 in Chalmers.

Descartes, Rene. Meditations II, VI.

Descartes, Rene. Passions of the Soul.

Dretske, Fred. "A Recipe for Thought." Chap. 40 in Chalmers.

Hill, Christopher S. "Imaginability, Conceivability, Possibility, and the Mind-Body Problem." Chap. 33 in Chalmers.

Horgan, Terence, and John M. Tienson. "The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality." Chap. 49 in Chalmers.

Jackson, Frank. "Epiphenomenal Qualia." Chap. 28 in Chalmers.

Kim, Jaegwon. "The Many Problems of Mental Causation." Chap. 22 in Chalmers.

Kripke, Saul A. Naming and Necessity.

Levine, Joseph. "Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap." Chap. 35 in Chalmers.

Lewis, David. "Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications." Chap. 13 in Chalmers.

Lewis,David. "What Experience Teaches." Chap. 29 in Chalmers.

Nagel, Thomas. "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" Chap. 25 in Chalmers.

Peacocke, Christopher. "Sensation and the Content of Experience: A Distinction." Chap. 41 in Chalmers.

Place, U.T. "Is Consciousness a Brain Process?" Chap. 8 in Chalmers.

Putnam, Hilary. "The Meaning of 'Meaning'." Chap. 54 in Chalmers.

Putnam, Hilary. "The Nature of Mental States." Chap. 11 in Chalmers.

Ryle, Gilbert. "Descartes' Myth." Chap. 5 in Chalmers.

Searle, John R. "Can Computers Think?" Chap. 63 in Chalmers.

Smart, J.J.C. "Sensations and Brain Processes." Chap. 9 in Chalmers.

Smullyan, Raymond M. "An Unfortunate Dualist." Chap. 4 in Chalmers.

Stoljar, Daniel. "Two Conceptions of the Physical." Chap. 31 in Chalmers.

Optional Readings
Byrne, Alex. "Behaviourism." In A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind. Edited by S. D. Guttenplan. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994, pp. 132-140.

Clark, Andy, and David J.Chalmers. "The Extended Mind." Chap. 59 in Chalmers.

Feigl, Herbert. "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'." Chap. 10 in Chalmers.

Millikan, Ruth. "Biosemantics." Chap. 47 in Chalmers.

Searle, John R. "Is the Brain a Digital Computer?" Presidential Address. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, 1990. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/searle.comp.html

Searle, John R. "Minds, Brains, and Programs." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3) (1980): 417-457. http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/04/84/bbs00000484-00/bbs.searle2.html

Tye, Michael. "Visual Qualia and Visual Content Revisited." Chap. 42 in Chalmers.