January 18, 2000:

• "Concepts and Consciousness" [PDF]
• "Grokking-Concepts and the Metaphysics of Pain"
• "Review of Frank Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defense of Conceptual Analysis" [PDF]
• "Modal Rationalism & Logical Empiricism: Some Similarities" [PDF]
• Students should have read either chapters 2,3 and 4 of Chalmers' The Conscious Mind or the first half of the book by Jackson that Yablo reviews. The Chalmers chapters are available on the web page for an earlier version of this course, but are only accessible using a password. Those attending the course can obtain the password from Adam Pautz or Ray Buchanan.

January 26, 2000:

• Chapters 4, 7, 8 of Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness [PDF]
• Chapters 5 and 6 (Optional) [PDF]

February 1, 2000:

• The Harder Problem of Consciousness

February 8, 2000:

• "The Psychophysical Nexus" [PDF] forthcoming in New Essays on the A Priori, edited by Paul Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke. (Those who are pressed for time can skip sections II, III, and IV, except for the first three pages of section III.)

February 15, 2000:

• Thinking about Consciousness Chapters 2 through 6.

February 22, 2000:

• "Get Real", Reply to 14 essays, in Philosophical Topics, vol. 22, no. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 1994, pp. 505-568. (Concentrate on sections 5-7. Part of this is a response to Ned Block's paper "What Is Dennett's Theory a Theory of?".)
• "The Case for Rorts" for Rorty and His Critics (forthcoming)
• "The Zombie Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?" (Saul Steinberg's image will be distributed in class)

February 29, 2000:

• "Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?"
• "Materialism and the Metaphysics of Modality", section 3
• "Mind and Modality", lectures 1 and 2

March 7, 2000:

• Consciousness in Action, Chapter 5: Unity, Neurophysiology, Action.
  • Part I
  • Part II
  (This is a manuscript copy of Chapter 5 prior to copy-editing. Quotations should be taken from the printed version. By agreement with the publisher, this material is passworded and will be removed from this site within 4 months of the end of the course.)
• "Making up Minds" (This is extra reading that will not be discussed on Tuesday.)

March 21, 2000:

• "Descartes, Bare Concepts, and Anti-Individualism"
• "Two Concepts of Consciousness"

March 28, 2000:

• "Intentionalism Defended" (the one to read)
• "The Hard Problem of Perception" (if you have time)
• "Chalmers' Two-Dimensional Argument Against Physicalism" [PDF] (for enthusiasts)

April 4, 2000:

• "Why the Property Dualism Argument Won't Go Away"

April 11, 2000:

• "The Function of Consciousness" (Copies are available in the Philosophy department.)

April 18, 2000:

• "Introspection and Phenomenal States" [PDF]

April 25, 2000:

• "Some Reflections on Representationalism" [PDF]