Schedule

0. Introduction: Knowledge and the World

Descartes, First Meditation (23, 25 Jan)

1. Minds and Bodies (4 weeks)

Descartes, Meditations 2 and 6 (6, 8 Feb)

Campbell, "How the Mind Body problem arises" (13, 15 Feb)

Jackson, "Epiphenomenal Qualia" and excerpts from "What Mary didn't know" (20, 22 Feb)

Smart, "Sensations and Brain Processes" (27 Feb, 1 Mar)

2. Minds and Machines (2 weeks)

Searle, "Minds, Brains and Programs" (6, 8 March)

Block, "The Mind as the Software of the Brain", Section 1.1 (20 March)

MIDTERM TEST (22 March)

3. Persons (3 weeks)

Perry, "A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality" (27, 29 March, 3 April)

Parfit, "Personal Identity" (5 April, 12 April)

4. Choice and Free Will (2 weeks)

Strawson, "Free Will" (19 April)

FINAL TEST (3 May)