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For Wed Aug 19:

Philosophical Terms & Methods (also linked in Admin section above; the Glossary is less important)

For Mon Aug 24:

For Wed Aug 26:

For Mon Aug 31:

For Wed Sept 2:

For Wed Sept 9:

For Wed Sept 16:

For Wed Sept 23:

For Mon Sept 28:

p. 14 to p. 21 of Gennaro textbook (section 1.3)
van Inwagen to bottom p. 231
Philosophical Terms & Methods on Conditionals (also linked in Webnotes section below)

For Wed Sept 30:

For Wed Oct 7:

Re-read van Inwagen p. 226–middle p. 229
Also read van Inwagen pp. 260–262
Read Gennaro textbook pp. 26–44 (section __)
My webnotes on Causal Arguments against Dualism (also linked in Webnotes section below)

For Wed Oct 14:

For Mon Oct 19:

For Mon Oct 26:

For Mon Nov 2:

This includes some upcoming texts:

Re-read more closely the Terms and Methods page on Conditionals that we read earlier in class but postponed discussing
My webnotes Introducing Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)
pp. 14 to 21 of Gennaro textbook (section 1.3)
van Inwagen to bottom p. 231
Re-read earlier webnotes on Our Private Mental Lives (also linked in Webnotes section below)
p. 21 to middle p. 26 of Gennaro textbook (section 1.4)
van Inwagen to top p. 233
My webnotes Limits to Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)

Re-read more closely the Terms and Methods page on Conditionals that we read earlier in class but postponed discussing
My webnotes Introducing Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)
p. 14 to middle p. 26 of Gennaro textbook (sections 1.3 and 1.4)
Re-read earlier webnotes on Our Private Mental Lives (also linked in Webnotes section below)
My webnotes Limits to Leibniz’s Law (also linked in Webnotes section below)
Read for this session: continue van Inwagen to top p. 241
Huxley
Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth and Descartes
van Inwagen p. 226–middle p. 229 and pp. 260–262
p. 26 to p. 44 of Gennaro textbook (end of section 1.4, and sections 2.1–2.3)
Cory Doctorow, Truncat
Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
pp. 60–86 of Gennaro textbook
Chapter 2 of Leiber textbook
Lycan appendix
Optional reading: Turing
Searle’s Chinese Room
Einstein’s Brain – summary
Chapter 3 of Leiber textbook
Greg Egan, Learning to Be Me
Schwitzgebel and Garza

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