SYLLABUS
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Topic |
Reading |
| Week
1 |
Introduction |
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| 01/19 W: |
Introduction to the class |
CC: Chs. 1-4 of Damasio’s Descartes’
Error. View Clive Waring & Twitch & Shout videos |
| Week
2 |
Philosophy
of Mind I - The Metaphysics of Mind |
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| 01/26 W: |
The Ontological Problem:
Dualism & Behaviorism |
CC: Ryle, "Descartes' Myth" M&Cs: pp. 7-25 |
| Week
3 |
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| 02/02 W: |
Mind-Brain Identity
Theory |
M&Cg: Place, "Is Consciousness
a Brain Process?" CC: Smart, "Sensations &Brain Processes" M&Cs: pp. 26-35 |
| Week
4 |
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| 02/09 W: |
Functionalism |
M&Cg: Putnam, “Nature of mental
states” M&Cg: Fodor, “Tacit Knowledge in Psych Explanation” M&Cg: Lycan, “Continuity of Levels of Nature” |
| Week
5 |
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| 02/16 W: |
Multiple realization
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CC: Fodor, “Special sciences” CC: Bechtel & Mundale, “Multiple realizability revisited” CC: Keeley, “Shocking lessons from Electric fish” |
| 02/17 Th |
Empathy & Consciousness
Symposium |
4:15-9:00, Mallot Commons (CMC) |
| Week
6 |
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| 02/23 W: |
How to create a Web-page |
None |
| Week 7 |
Neuroscience |
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| 03/02 W: |
Drugs, Brain Structure,
Learning & Memory |
CM: Chapters 1-3, 5 & 8 M&Cs: Ch. 7, pp. 123-155 |
| Week
8 |
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| 03/09 W: |
The emotional &
conscious brain |
CM: Chapters 9 & 10 CC: Kramer, "Introduction," "Makeover", & "Sensitivity" |
| Week
9 |
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| 03/16 W: |
NO CLASS (Spring break) |
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| Week
10 |
Philosophy
of Mind II- Epistemology of Minds |
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| 03/23 W: |
Eliminative Materialism
& the Folk Psychology Debate |
M&Cs: pp. 43-49 M&Cg: Churchland, “Eliminative Materialism & the propositional attitudes" M&Cg: Stich, "Autonomous Psych & the Belief-Desire Thesis" M&Cg: Horgan & Woodward, "Folk Psychology is Here to Stay" |
| Week
11 |
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| 03/30W: |
Prep for conf |
M&Cs: Ch. 4 CC: Malcolm, "Knowledge of Other Minds" |
| 03/31 Th |
Empathy & Others
Con |
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| Week
12 |
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| 04/06 W: |
First-person authority |
M&Cg: Davidson, "Knowing one's
own mind" M&Cg: Heil, "Privileged Access" |
| Week
13 |
Putting
the Perspectives Together: Autism |
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| 04/13 W: |
Autism: An introduction |
CC: Frith, "The Background Facts"
& "Biological Roots" CC: Frith & Happ, “Theory of mind & self-consciousness: What is it like to be autistic?” |
| Week
14 |
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| 04/20 W: |
Autism: Science and
philosophy |
M&Cg: Gordon, "Folk psych. as
simulation" M&Cg: Davies, "The Mental Simulation Debate" |
| Week
15 |
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| 04/27 W: |
Autism from the Inside |
Either book by Temple Grandin or the Barrons |
| Week
16 |
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| 05/04 W: |
Final wrap-up and discussion
of student reports |
None |