相關閱讀資料
Unless otherwise indicated, all readings are from the Chalmers collection; readings from Armstrong's book are referred to by chapter and section number.
Texts
Chalmers, David, ed. Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0195145801.
Armstrong, D. M. The Mind-Body Problem. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. ISBN: 0813390575.
| 課 | 課程單元 | 閱讀資料 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and Warmup: Searle Against AI | Required Readings Searle, John R. "Can Computers Think?" Chapter 63 in Chalmers. Block, Ned. "The Mind as the Software of the Brain." Chapter 11 in An Invitation to Cognitive Science. Edited by D. Osherson, L. Gleitman, S. Kosslyn, E. Smith, and S. Sternberg. Vol. 3. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995, section 4. ISBN: 0262150433. A version of "The Mind as the Software of the Brain" is also available. |
| 2 | Introduction and Warmup: Searle Against AI (cont.) Dualism |
Required Readings Armstrong. Chapter 1 and 2. pp. 9-20. Introduction and Warmup: Searle Against AI Searle, John R. "Minds, Brains, and Programs." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3, no. 3 (1980): 417-457. Dualism Descartes, Rene. Meditations on First Philosophy (II, VI). 4th ed. Translated by Donald A. Cress. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1998. ISBN: 0872204200. ———. Passions of the Soul: an English Translation. Translated by Stephen Voss. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1989. ISBN: 0872200353. Optional Readings Searle, John R. "Is the Brain a Digital Computer?" Presidential Address. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, 1990. Byrne, Alex. "Intentionality." Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. Edited by J. Pfeifer and S. Sarkar. New York, NY: Routledge. (Forthcoming) |
| 3 | Dualism (cont.) Behaviorism |
Required Readings Armstrong. Chapter 2, pp. 20-5; Chapter 5. Dualism Descartes, Rene. Meditations on First Philosophy (II, VI). 4th ed. Translated by Donald A. Cress. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1998. ISBN: 0872204200. ———. Passions of the Soul: an English Translation. Translated by Stephen Voss. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1989. ISBN: 0872200353. Smullyan, Raymond M. "An Unfortunate Dualist." Chapter 4 in Chalmers. Behaviorism Ryle, Gilbert. "Descartes' Myth." Chapter 5 in Chalmers. |
| 4 | Behaviorism (cont.) The Identity Theory |
Required Readings Place, U. T. "Is Consciousness a Brain Process?" Chapter 8 in Chalmers. Smart, J. J. C. "Sensations and Brain Processes." Chapter 9 in Chalmers. Armstrong. Chapter 6. Optional Readings Byrne, Alex. "Behaviourism." In A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind. Edited by S. D. Guttenplan. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1994, pp. 132-140. Behaviorism (SEP) |
| 5 | The Identity Theory (cont.) | Required Readings Place, U. T. "Is Consciousness a Brain Process?" Chapter 8 in Chalmers. Smart, J. J. C. "Sensations and Brain Processes." Chapter 9 in Chalmers. Kripke, Saul A. Naming and Necessity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. ISBN: 0674598458. Optional Readings Feigl, Herbert. "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'." Chapter 10 in Chalmers. |
| 6 | Functionalism | Required Readings Armstrong, David M. "The Causal Theory of the Mind." Chapter 12 in Chalmers. Putnam, Hilary. "The Nature of Mental States." Chapter 11 in Chalmers. Block, Ned. "The Mind as the Software of the Brain." Chapter 11 in An Invitation to Cognitive Science. Edited by D. Osherson, L. Gleitman, S. Kosslyn, E. Smith, and S. Sternberg. Vol. 3. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995, section 4. ISBN: 0262150433. A version of "The Mind as the Software of the Brain" is also available. Lewis, David. "Mad Pain and Martian Pain." In The Nature of Man. Edited by David M. Rosenthal. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN: 0195046714. Block, Ned. "Troubles with Functionalism." Chapter 14 in Chalmers. Armstrong. Chapter 7. |
| 7 | Functionalism (cont.) Content: Intentionality and Externalism |
Required Readings Brentano, Franz. "The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena." Chapter 44 in Chalmers. Byrne, Alex. "Intentionality." Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. Edited by J. Pfeifer and S. Sarkar. New York, NY: Routledge. (Forthcoming) Putnam, Hilary. "The Meaning of 'Meaning'." Chapter 54 in Chalmers. Burge, Tyler. "Individualism and the Mental." Chapter 55 in Chalmers. Armstrong. Chapter 9. Recommended Readings Lewis, David. "Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications." Chapter 13 in Chalmers. Optional Readings Clark, Andy, and David J. Chalmers. "The Extended Mind." Chapter 59 in Chalmers. |
| 8 | Content: Intentionality and Externalism (cont.) Content: Psychosemantics |
Required Readings Dretske, Fred. "A Recipe for Thought." Chapter 40 in Chalmers. Armstrong. Chapter 12. Optional Readings Millikan, Ruth. "Biosemantics." Chapter 47 in Chalmers. |
| 9 | Content: Psychosemantics (cont.) Externalism and Self-knowledge |
Required Readings Content: Psychosemantics Dennett, Daniel C. "True Believers." Chapter 52 in Chalmers. Externalism and Self-knowledge McKinsey, Michael. "Anti-Individualism and Privileged Access." Analysis 51 (1991): 9-16. Brueckner, A. "What an Anti-Individualist Knows A Priori." Analysis 52 (1992): 111-118. |
| 10 | Consciousness and Intentionality Consciousness and its Place in Nature |
Required Readings Consciousness and Intentionality Tye, Michael. "Visual Qualia and Visual Content Revisited." Chapter 42 in Chalmers. Consciousness and its Place in Nature Nagel, Thomas. "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" Chapter 25 in Chalmers. Armstrong. Chapter 10. Recommended Readings Block, Ned. "Concepts of Consciousness." Chapter 24 in Chalmers. Peacocke, Christopher. "Sensation and the Content of Experience: A Distinction." Chapter 41 in Chalmers. Optional Readings Horgan, Terence, and John M. Tienson. "The Intentionality of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Intentionality." Chapter 49 in Chalmers. |
| 11 | Consciousness and its Place in Nature (cont.) | Required Readings Chalmers, David J. "Consciousness and Its Place in Nature." Chapter 27 in Chalmers. |
| 12 | The Knowledge Argument | Required Readings Jackson, Frank. "Epiphenomenal Qualia." Chapter 28 in Chalmers. Lewis, David. "What Experience Teaches." Chapter 29 in Chalmers. Dennett, Daniel. " What RoboMary Knows." Armstrong. Chapter 11. Optional Readings Stoljar, Daniel. "Two Conceptions of the Physical." Chapter 31 in Chalmers. |
| 13 | The Explanatory Gap and Kripke's Argument Revisited | Required Readings Levine, Joseph. "Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap." Chapter 35 in Chalmers. Block, Ned. and Robert Stalnaker. "Conceptual Analysis, Dualism, and the Explanatory Gap." Philosophical Review 108 (1999): 1-46. A version of " Conceptual Analysis, Dualism, and the Explanatory Gap" is available. |
| 14 | Discussion of Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem? | Required Readings McGinn, C. "Can we solve the mind-body problem?" Mind xcviii, no. 391 (1989): 349-366. |
