Jan. 11 | Introductory Meeting, No Reading. | No seminar scheduled. |
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Jan. 18 | Dualism I R. Descartes: ‘Meditation 6’ and ‘6th Reply’ from The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Vol. 2; R. Descartes and E. Simmern van Pallandt ‘Excerpts’ from The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes, L. Shapiro (ed.): 61-73; A. Cucu and B. Pitts ‘How Dualists Should (Not) Respond to the Objection From Energy Conservation’, 2019 - Mind and Matter 17 (1): 95-121. |
TBA. |
Jan. 25 | Dualism II J. Kim: ‘The Rejection of Immaterial Minds: A Causal Argument’ (Ch. 3 of Kim’s 2005 Physicalism, Or Something Close Enough, Princeton University Press); A. Bailey, J. Rasmussen and L. Van Horn: ‘No Pairing Problem’, 2011 - Philosophical Studies 154 (3): 349-360. |
Cassandra Williams (Kim) |
Feb. 1 | Epiphenomenalism F. Jackson: ‘Epiphenomenal Qualia’, 1982 - Philosophical Quarterly 32 (April): 127-136; F. Jackson ‘Postscript on qualia’ (Ch. 7 of Jackson’s Mind, Method and Conditionals: 76-79); W. Robinson: ‘Knowing Epiphenomena’, 2006 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 13 (1-2): 85-100. |
Unnati Patel (Jackson 1) David Rattray (Robinson) |
Feb. 8 | Property Dualism D. Chalmers: ‘Naturalistic Dualism’ (Ch. 4 of Chalmers’s The Conscious Mind OUP 1996); S. White: ‘The Property Dualism Argument’ in 2009 - In R. Koons and G. Bealer (eds.) The Waning of Materialism: New Essays, OUP: 89-113. |
TBA. |
Feb. 15 | Reading Week. | No seminar scheduled. |
Feb. 22 | Panpsychism W. Seager: ‘Consciousness, Information, and Panpsychism’ (Ch. 13 of Theories of Consciousness, 2nd Ed. 2016); G. Strawson: ‘Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism’ 2006 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 13 (10-11): 3-31. |
Dwright Crowell Emily Baron |
Mar. 1 | Russellian Monism D. Wishon: ‘Russell’s Neutral Monism and Panpsychism’ in W. Seager (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism; P. Goff: ‘Against Constitutive Russellian Monism’ in T. Alter and Y. Nagasawa (eds.) Consciousness in the Physical World: Perspectives on Russellian Monism, OUP, 2015. |
Dwight Crowell (Wishon) Peixian Shen (Goff) |
Mar. 8 | Idealism H. Yetter-Chappell: ‘Idealism Without God’ in T. Goldschmidt & K. Pearce (eds.) Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics, OUP, 2017; J. Ross: ‘Idealism and Fine Tuning’ in T. Goldschmidt & K. Pearce (eds.), Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics, OUP, 2017. |
Peixian Shen (Yetter-Chappell) Martin Dimitrov (Ross) |
Mar. 15 | Physicalism I D. Chalmers and F. Jackson: ‘Conceptual Analysis and Reductive Explanation’ The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 3. (Jul., 2001): 315-360. |
David Rattray. |
Mar. 22 | Physicalism II D. Papineau: ‘The Rise of Physicalism’ in Carl Gillett & Barry M. Loewer (eds.) Physicalism and Its Discontents, CUP 2001; W. Seager: ‘Consciousness and Physicalism’ (Ch. 1 of Theories of Consciousness, 2nd Ed. 2016). |
Emily Baron (Papineau) Unnati Patel (Seager) |
Mar. 29 | Eliminative Materialism P. Churchland: ‘Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes’ The Journal of Philosophy Vol. 78, No. 2 (Feb., 1981), 67-90; A. Rosenberg: Chs. 8 and 9 of The Athiest’s Guide to Reality (2011); P. Boghossian: ‘The Status of Content’ The Philosophical Review, Vol. XCIX, No. 2 (April 1990). |
TBA. |
Apr. 5 | Illusionism D. Dennett ‘Quining Qualia’ 1988 - In Anthony J. Marcel and E. Bisiach (eds.) Consciousness in Contemporary Science, Oxford University Press; K. Frankish ‘Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness’ 2016 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 23 (11-12): 11-39. |
Cassandra Williams (Dennett) Martin Dimitrov (Frankish) |
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