Philosophy 202
Fall 2002

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SCHEDULE

(For a list of materials on reserve, go to the links page)

Tuesday August 27: Introduction

Thursday August 29: Cartesian Dualism: Read Ch.2 of Armstrong.

Tuesday September 3: Introspection and fallibility: Read "Is Introspective Knowledge Incorrigible?" by Armstrong, on reserve at the U.I.C. Library.

Thursday September 5: Hume's Bundle Theory of Mind: Read Ch.3 of Armstrong.

Tuesday September 10: Huxley's Epiphenomenalism: Read Ch. 4 of Armstrong. (Optional reading: "Epiphenomenal Qualia" by Frank Jackson, on reserve at the U.I.C. Library.)

Thursday September 12: Behaviorism: Read Ch. 5 of Armstrong.

Tuesday September 17: More on Behaviorism: Read "Descartes' Myth"--Ch. 1 of Ryle's The Concept of Mind and selections from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (both are on reserve in the library.)

Thursday September 19: Final thoughts on Behaviorism. Begin discussion on Identity Theory. Read Ch. 6 of Armstrong. (Optional reading: Smart's "Sensations and Brain Processes"--on reserve in the library.)

Tuesday September 24: Objections to the Identity Theory. Read "Selections from Naming and Necessity" by Kripke--on reserve in the library.

Thursday September 26: The Causal Theory. Read Ch. 7 of Armstrong.

Tuesday October 1: More on the Causal Theory. Read "Mad Pain and Martian Pain" by David Lewis--on reserve in the library.

Thursday October 3: Finish discussion of "Mad Pain and Martian", begin dicussion of Functionalism. Read the postscript to "Mad Pain and Martian Pain" and Ch. 9 of Armstrong.

Tuesday October 8: More on Functionalism. Continue reading Ch. 9.

Thursday October 10: Objections to Functionalism: Inverted and Absent Qualia, and the Problem of Inputs and Outputs. No assigned reading.

Tuesday Ocober 15: John Searle's "Chinese Room" thought experiment. (Optional reading: "Minds, Brains, and Programs" by Searle--on reserve in the library.)

Thursday October 17: Begin discussion of Eliminavitism. Read Ch. 8.

Tuesday October 22: Consciousness. Read Ch. 10. (Optional reading: "The Disembodied Lady" by Oliver Sacks--on reserve in the library.)

Thursday October 24: The function of consciousness. Read Owen Flanagan's "Conscious Inessentialism and the Epiphenomenalist Suspicion"--on reserve in the library.)

Tuesday October 29: The Sensible Qualities. Read Ch. 11.

Thursday October 31: The Sensible Qualities continued. Read Ch. 11

Tuesday November 5: Back to Mary's room. Read Paul Churchland's "The Direct Introspection of Brain States"--on reserve in the library.

Thursday November 7: Intentionality. Reach Ch. 12 of Armstrong.

Tuesday November 12: More on intentionality. Read "Intentional Systems", by Dennett--on reserve in the library.

Thursday November 14: Cognitive Science and representation. Read "Methodological Solpsism" by Fodor--on reserve in the library.

Tuesday November 19: More on Methodological Solpsism.

Thursday November 21: Functionalism and Reductionism, a new look. Read "The Mind-Body Problem" by Kim--on reserve in the library.

Tuesday November 26: Visual Deficits. Read Farah's "The Apperceptive Agnosias"--on reserve in the library.

Tuesday Decemeber 3: More on the apperceptive agnosias. If we have time, we will also discuss the associative agnosias. Read Farah's "The Associative Agnosias"--on reserve in the library.

Thursday December 5: Review session for the final.