Philosophy 1320: Theories of the Mind
Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.
Stern College for Women - Yeshiva University, Spring 2007
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Our make-up class/review for the final is scheduled for Wednesday, May 2, at 1:25pm.
Information about the final exam
Plato
Aristotle
Descartes
B.F. Skinner
David Armstrong and Jack Smart
Hilary Putnam
Jerry Fodor
Patricia and Paul Churchland
Alan Turing
John Searle
Thomas Nagel
Daniel Dennett
Course Material
Links to Sites I Recommend for This Course
David Chalmers' Astounding Bibliography of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
Plato's Theory of Forms, and Complete Works
Chomsky, and the Poverty of the Stimulus
An Interesting Site Devoted to Descartes' Meditations
Galileo's Discovery of Inertia - check out the neat graphic!
A Philosophical Approach to Freud
Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument (PLA)
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Christopher Hill on identity theory
ALICE, an artficial intelligence program. You can talk with her.
Gualtiero Piccinini on various forms of functionalism
An article from Thomas Nagel, responding to Kripke
The New Yorker profile of the Churchlands
Dennett, a response to Chalmers' hard problem of consciousness
Paul Churchland, on qualia (colors)
More links will be forthcoming through the term.
Other Philosophy Links
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Thoughts, Arguments and Rants, a Philosophy Blog
The American Philosophical Association
Guide to Philosophy on the Net (Links to everything, many are broken)
Some Philosophy Departments in the New York Area
Fun
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy