Philosophy 355: Contemporary Philosophy

Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.

Hamilton College, Fall 2008

Readings

Descartes, from Meditations...

Skinner, from Science and Human Behavior

Hempel, “The Logical Analysis of Psychology”

Place, “Is Consciousness a Brain Process?”

Smart, "Sensations and Brain Processes"

Putnam, “The Nature of Mental States”

Fodor, from “Something on the State of the Art”

Block, “Troubles with Functionalism”

Nagel, “What is it Like to be a Bat?”

Locke, on inverted spectra

Jackson, “Epiphenomenal Qualia”

Wittgenstein, from Philosophical Investigations

Dennett, “Quining Qualia”

Dennett, "What RoboMary Knows"

Rorty, from Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Profile of the Churchlands

Chalmers, “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness”

Chalmers, "Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia"

Harcastle, "When a Pain is Not"

Mack and Rock, “Inattentional Blindness: An Overview”

Weiskrantz, "The Case of Blindsight"

Brook and Mandik, "The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement"

Mandik, "The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness"

Mandik, "The Neurophilosophy of Subjectivity"

Mandik, "The Introspectibility of Brain States as Such"

Mandik and Weisberg, "Type-Q Materialism"

Kripke, "from Naming and Necessity"

Daniels, “Reflective Equilibrium”

Stich, “Reflective Equilibrium, Analytic Epistemology, and the Problem of Cognitive Diversity”

Stich and Nisbett, "Justification and the Psychology of Human Reasoning"

Sosa, "A Defense of the Use of Intuitions in Philosophy"

Devitt, "Intuitions"

Nolt, “Modal Logics”

Goodman, "The New Riddle of Induction"

Hume, "On Laws of Nature"

Hempel, “Laws and Their Role in Scientific Explanation”

Railton, "A Deductive-Nomological Model of Probabilistic Explanation"

Van Fraassen (and Earman, Armstrong, and Cartwright), "Symposium on Laws and Symmetry"

Lewis, “Introduction”

Lewis, “Humean Supervenience Debugged”

Maudlin, “Why be a Humean?”

Carroll, “The Humean Tradition”

Carroll, from Laws of Nature

Beebee, “The Non-Governing Conception of Laws of Nature”

Loewer, “Humean Supervenience”

Roberts, "Lewis, Carroll, and Seeing Through the Looking Glass"

Schneider, "What is the Significance of the Intuition that the Laws of Nature Govern?"

Smullyan, “Knights and Knaves”

Rabern and Rabern, “A Simple Solution to the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever”