CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

OF MIND

Texts: 

Kevin Corcoran (ed.), Soul, Body and Survival

Raymond Martin and John Barresi, (eds.), Personal Identity

James B. Reichmann, Evolution, Animals 'Rights', and the Environment

SYLLABUS: CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Texts for Reading Assignments: 

    1. "Dualism" in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:  Dualism

     2. "Human Beings are Animals," by P. Lee:  Human Beings Are Animals

     New:  3. for Monday:  Christopher Tollefsen, "Experience Machines, Dreams, and What Matters," at:   Journal of Value Inquiry, Volume 37, issue 2.  That is online, through the university's website.  Just go to the library's site and search under title, Journal of Value Inquiry, then go to volume 37, issue 2. 

      4. On Constitutionalism (Olson's reply to Baker): http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/bakersymp_olson.htm

        5. On Physicalism.  Read sections 1-8, 15-16: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/#9

       6. James Ross's "Immaterial Aspects of Thought": http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jross/zchap6.htm

        7. Some Material on Apes and Language:  1. http://www.littletree.com.au/koko.htm 2. http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4451/SheTalks.html

        8. An article on Free Will (for April 25):  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwVariousKane.html

        9. From my "Soul, Body, and Personhood," forthcoming in

American Journal of Jurisprudence":  III

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