PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (SPRING 2011) Instructor: Brian P. McLaughlin Office: 1 Seminary Place Office Hours: Requirements: (1) two papers, each 5 pages single spaced (paper topics will be announced); (2) take home final exam due during the hours of the final exam. Text: The Oxford Handbook in the Philosophy of Mind (Oxford University Press) Jan 20 Introduction: the mind-body problem 24 Kim “Mental Causation” 27 Papineau “The Causal Closure of the Physical and Naturalism” 31 Baker “Non-Reductive Materialism” Feb 3 Lowe “Dualism” 7 Lowe “Dualism” (again) 10 Robinson “Idealism” 14 Seager “Pansychism” 17 Dennett “Intentional Systems Theory” 21 Van Gulick “Functionalism” 24 Discussion 28 Discussion Mar 3 FIRST PAPER DUE; introductory lecture on consciousness 7 Perry “Subjectivity” 10 Rosenthal “Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness” 21 Crane “Intentionalism” 24 Levine “The Explanatory Gap” 28 Chalmers “The Two-Dimensional Argument Against Materialism” 31 Chalmers “The Two-Dimensional Argument Against Materialism” (again) Apr 4 Balog “Phenomenal Concepts” 7 Balog “Phenomenal Concepts” (again) 11 McGinn “Imagination” 14 Anthony “Thinking” 18 Morton “Folk Psychology” 21 SECOND PAPER DUE; discussion 25 Montague “The Content of Perceptual Experience” 28 MacDonald “Introspection” May 2 Bach “Self-Deception” FINAL EXAM
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