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Poslední úprava: UFRHILL (08.02.2015)
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Poslední úprava: UFRHILL (09.02.2015)
Literature: Students will be required to read a selection of the following texts as homework each week. Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, and Güven Güyeldere, The Nature of Consciousness, MIT Press, 1999 David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, OUP, 1996 Daniel Dennett, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Harvester, 1978 Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained, Little, Penguin, 1993 (1st edition 1991) Daniel Dennett, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, MIT, 2005 Owen Flanagan, Consciousness Reconsidered, MIT, 1992 Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, Basic Books, 1981 Douglas Hofstadter, ‘Reflections’ on Searle’s ‘Minds, Brains, and Programs’, in Hofstadter and Dennett, 373-382 Frank Jackson, ‘The Knowledge Argument’, in The Richmond Journal of Philosophy, 3, 2003 Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Blackwell, 1980, 144-164 Colin McGinn, ‘Can we solve the mind-body problem?’, in Mind 98, 1989, 349-66 Thomas Nagel, ‘What Is It Like to Be a Bat?’, in Nagel, Mortal Questions, CUP, 1979, 165-180 Thomas Nagel, ‘Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness’, in Mortal Questions, CUP, 1979 Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere, OUP, 1986 (esp. chapters I and II) Roger Penrose, The Emperor’s New Mind, Oxford University Press, 1999 (1st edition 1989) Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, Penguin, 1949 John R. Searle, ‘Minds, Brains, and Programs’, in Hofstadter and Dennett, 353-373 John R. Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind, MIT, 1992 John R. Searle, Mind: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2004 |
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Poslední úprava: UFRHILL (08.02.2015)
Course Requirements Each week there will be a reading available in the library (and on Moodle) which will be the subject of our discussion in the seminar. The reading is an essential part of the course, and students will quickly lose their way if they fail to do it each week. Our course will be graded according to two criteria: attendance and written work. (i) To be eligible for the grade, students should not be absent from the seminar more than three times over the semester. (ii) The written work will be a short essay, of between 1,500-2,000 words on one subject from the course. This essay, written in English, should show knowledge of a philosopher included in the course, and the student’s own argued standpoint. The essay should be handed in on paper by May 1st, 2015. Essays will not be accepted after this date nor will they be accepted in electronic form. It is important that Erasmus students do not leave Prague without discussing their essay with me, as the discussion may contribute towards the grade. |
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Poslední úprava: UFRHILL (08.02.2015)
1. Introduction: consciousness and naturalism 2. Identity theory (J.J.C. Smart) 3. Functionalism (Daniel Dennett) 4. Non-reductive biological theory (John Searle) 5. Mysterianism (Noam Chomsky) 6. Cognitive closure (Colin McGinn) 7. Supervenience (Jaegwon Kim) 8. Emergentism (Gerald Vision) 9. Panpsychism (Galen Strawson) 10. Quantum theory (Roger Penrose) 11. The neurobiological approach (Patricia Churchland) 12. Conclusion |