![]() Philosophy 2250 Mind, Language and Knowledge University of
Guelph
Fall 2009 Instructor: Stefan Linquist Tues. & Thurs. 2:30-3:50. PM Email: linquist@uoguelph.ca Place: MACK, Room 115 Office Hours: Thursday 1:00-2:00 TA: Suzanne McCullagh (smcculla@uoguelph.ca)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Course Materials * Assignment 1 - Due Sept 22. * Assignment 2 - Due Oct 06 Syllabus (pdf) * Assignment 3 - Due Oct 22 *Study Questions for Midterm Guidelines for writing papers in this class (pdf) * Assignment 4 - Due Nov 10 *Assignment 5 - Due November 26 * Study Questions for Final Exam **Paper Topics** ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Online Readings 1. J.P. Moreland (1987), “A Contemporary defense of dualism”, excerpt from Scaling the Secular City. 2. T.H. Huxley (1874), "On the hypothesis that animals are automata, and its history" (excerpt with comments). 3. John B.Watson (1913), “Psychology as a behaviorist views it”, Psychological Review, 20: 158-177. 4. Denise D. Cummins (1999), "A history of thinking", from Cummins, R.C., & Cummins, D.D. (Eds.) Minds, brains, and computers: Foundations ofCognitive Science. 5. Michael R. Dawson (1998), "The Classical view of information processing", Understanding Cognitive Science 6. Alan M. Turing (1950), “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, Mind, 59: 6.5 **Here is the unabridged Turing article.** 7. John R. Searle (1980), "Minds, brains and programs", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3: 8. Melanie Mitchell (1999), "Can evolution explain how the mind works?", Complexity, 3: 17-24. 9. George Graham (1998), "Mind and Belief in Animals", from Philosophy of Mind an introduction. 9.5 Marian Stamp-Dawkins (2000), “Animal minds and animal emotions”, American Zoologist, 40: 883–888. 10. Daniel C. Dennett (1998), "Cognitive ethology: Hunting for bargains or a wild goose chase?" from Brainchildren. 11. Thomas Nagel (1974), "What's it like to be a bat?", The Philosophical Review, 435-450. 12. Patricia Churchland (2002), "Reductions and coevolution in scientific domains", and "Nine naysaying arguments", from Brainwise; Studies in Neurophilosophy. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Interesting
Links
Robots: The Big Dog robot and its humanoid cousin. An amazing video of an interactive virtual world containing characters who read your expressions Robots that express emotion and could (allegedly) one day expereince empathy. Evolutionary Psychoogy Steven Pinker on Evolutionary Psychology Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 Animal Mind and Consciousness Temple Grandin's talk on the mind of a visual thinker Dan Dennett and Robert Wright debate epiphenomenalism (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) |
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